Games like hackmud
If hackmud is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grey Hack, World Wide Hack and Screeps: World — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 hackmud: hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.
Players who liked hackmud also play
Steam players who put hours into hackmud 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.
Grey Hack
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with hackmud.
Top pick for hackmud fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with hackmud.
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
World Wide Hack
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with hackmud.
Second-strongest match for hackmud fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with hackmud.
Reveal company secrets while hacking and exploring their quantum simulation networks. Fights for control with other players, coop with your faction, gather best tools, build most secure servers, write scripts and webs, or choose to be solo hacker who makes the right choices to change the world.
Screeps: World
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with hackmud.
Third-strongest match for hackmud fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with hackmud.
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
Untrusted
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with hackmud.
Ranked #4 for hackmud fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with hackmud.
Untrusted is an online multiplayer (10 to 16 players) hacking / social deduction game: as an hacker, hack your target - as an undercover agent, disrupt the operation. Follow your objective or kill everyone - the choice is yours.
Settle Gliese
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for hackmud fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with hackmud.
A collaborative colony simulator game set in a massive dangerous world. It’s a massively multiplayer game where each player attempts to control a family of settlers.
HackMeNow
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for hackmud fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with hackmud.
A terminal-style hacking puzzle game where every command matters. Investigate logs, decode secrets, avoid traps, and uncover the rogue system watching from behind the screen.
City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with hackmud.
Ranked #7 for hackmud fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with hackmud.
Two windows applications install to any Windows Computer: Ansi compliant telnet text MUD Server and Client and their VB6 source code, heavily SQL coded with support and admin commands. I run my server on a 1000Mhz x 2 processor 7nm HP fanless laptop.
Hacknet
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with hackmud.
Ranked #8 for hackmud fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with hackmud.
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below hackmud at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under hackmud on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with hackmud.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under hackmud on Steam right now. Shares Indie with hackmud.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under hackmud on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with hackmud.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under hackmud on Steam right now. Shares RPG with hackmud.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under hackmud on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with hackmud.
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 ~58% under hackmud on Steam right now. Shares Indie with hackmud.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with hackmud.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Take on Duelists around the world with "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links"! Step into a world that crosses dimensions and connects all Duelists. In Duel World, any location transforms into a Duel Field where heated Duels unfold!
Moonbase Alpha
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with hackmud.
NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.
Loading Screen Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with hackmud.
A game about never-ending problem of loading screens. We've all experienced it while playing games, while downloading something, while installing an operating system ect. And now you can experience it once again in Loading Screen Simulator: Steam edition
MINDNIGHT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with hackmud.
Inspired by the party games Werewolf and The Resistance, MINDNIGHT is a cyberpunk online social deduction game of deceit, accusations and unpredictability. It challenges your ability to lie and detect others that are trying to be deceptive.
Awkward Dimensions Redux
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with hackmud.
They may be awkward dimensions, but they're my dreams...
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Frequently asked about hackmud
- Does hackmud run on Steam Deck?
- hackmud is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does hackmud cost?
- hackmud is listed on Steam at 18.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does hackmud have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — hackmud supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, PvP).
- What games are most similar to hackmud?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside hackmud are Grey Hack, World Wide Hack, Screeps: World.
- Who developed hackmud?
- hackmud was developed by ComCODE.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on hackmud.
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