Games like Desktop Hacker
If Desktop Hacker is your kind of game, the closest matches are Elite Hacker: Retro Hacking Evolution: Grand Theft Transsexual Uplink Matrix Terminator SEO Words, Radiotext and Signs of the Sojourner — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Desktop Hacker: A narrative driven hacking game that takes you on a journey around murky hacking circles. You will be using the console and graphical tools to hack systems in order to profit and advance the storyline.
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Steam players who put hours into Desktop Hacker also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Elite Hacker: Retro Hacking Evolution: Grand Theft Transsexual Uplink Matrix Terminator SEO Words
WHY THIS
Top pick for Desktop Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Hacker.
Do you ever lay awake at night thinking about Zero Cool wearing the dress?
Radiotext
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Desktop Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
Radiotext is an interactive story set in the near future, where communication without intrusion requires radio-waves. Dive into a cryptographic radio-net in this text-based rpg, where you need to think carefully before typing your answers.
Signs of the Sojourner
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Desktop Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?
Between the Lines
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Desktop Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Desktop Hacker.
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
Project DeepWeb
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Desktop Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend. Find out creepy stories from the Web and meet its inhabitants. It's showtime!
Echoes of MK-ULTRA
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Desktop Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Hacker.
In 1996’s digital haze, command DarkPulse, a rogue terminal torn from DARPA’s grip, to pierce Saraksen’s veiled conspiracy. Crack codes, hunt real-world clues, and decode cryptic media to expose forbidden truths. It's an ARG, and you’ve already been seen.
Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Desktop Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.
Millennium Whisper
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Desktop Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Hacker.
Millennium Whisper is a next-gen dating-sim set in 1999 at the fictional Escafeld College with an AI trained by real actors portraying the cast! Who will you confess your feelings to at the end of the millennium?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desktop Hacker at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desktop Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Hacker.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desktop Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Desktop Hacker.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Desktop Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Desktop Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desktop Hacker.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Desktop Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desktop Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Hacker.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desktop Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desktop Hacker.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Desktop Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desktop Hacker.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desktop Hacker.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Hacker.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Hacker.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Hacker.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Desktop Hacker
- How much does Desktop Hacker cost?
- Desktop Hacker is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desktop Hacker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desktop Hacker are Elite Hacker: Retro Hacking Evolution: Grand Theft Transsexual Uplink Matrix Terminator SEO Words, Radiotext, Signs of the Sojourner.
- Who developed Desktop Hacker?
- Desktop Hacker was developed by cybercritics.
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