Single-player games like hackmud
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to hackmud, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Grey Hack
Single-player alternative to hackmud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Hacknet
Single-player alternative to hackmud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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World Wide Hack
Single-player alternative to hackmud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Uplink
Single-player alternative to hackmud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hackmud.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
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Quadrilateral Cowboy
Single-player alternative to hackmud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hackmud.
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
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Screeps: World
Single-player alternative to hackmud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Else Heart.Break()
Single-player alternative to hackmud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with hackmud.
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
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Midnight Protocol
Single-player alternative to hackmud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hackmud.
Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.
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Bitburner
Single-player alternative to hackmud — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.