Single-player games like hack_me
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to hack_me, 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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Desktop Hacker
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
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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Naked News
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
Join in the fun with an unforgettable experience unlike any other! Naked News brings some hardcore, crass, dirty, vulgar, dark humour into an easily offended world, not pulling any punches and making fun of everything with this visual novel-style comic, Sitcom-esque episodic!
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Duskers
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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CHAQS
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
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Wrist Catcher-寸关
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
You are an apprentice of a traditional Chinese medicine herbalist in South Village. Your task is deceptively simple: Examine the pulse, ask about the symptoms and verify the identity of villagers and outsiders to expose the hidden "false people" from the diagnostic details.
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Sunray OS
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
You just bought a PC, only to discover it once belonged to someone who has mysteriously disappeared. You soon realize that the key to find him may be hidden deep inside your OS, governed by a weird chatbot named Zippy. What will be your first move?
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Monster Logic
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
Enter the world of "Monster Logic", the monstrous programming game! In this hand-drawn puzzle game, you'll have to use each monster's unique ability to progress through the 40+ levels and the multiple biomes!
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ABI-DOS
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
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Uplink
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hack_me.
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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Mr. Robot
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hack_me.
Asimov is a lowly service mechanoid aboard the interstellar colony ship Eidolon. Carrying hundreds of frozen human colonists to a new world. When the Eidolon's computer brain malfunctions, it falls to Asimov to undertake a perilous journey through the bowels of the massive ship to save his robot friends and the precious human cargo. Mr.
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Mad Games Tycoon
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
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Hacknet
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
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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Watch_Dogs® 2
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to San Francisco. Play as Marcus, a brilliant young hacker, and join the most notorious hacker group, DedSec. Your objective: execute the biggest hack of history.
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Watch Dogs®: Legion
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build a resistance as you fight to take back a near-future London facing its downfall. Welcome to the Resistance.
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TILE
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hack_me.
TILE is a minimalist puzzle game with relaxing soundtrack.
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Numberline 2
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hack_me.
NumberLine 2 is the continuation of the popular (no.) puzzle. You must repeat the indicated image from the numbers. But it isn't so easy - you can create only blocks with a "1", but when you create it, the numbers on all adjacent blocks are incremented by 1.
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ThinkAhead
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hack_me.
The concept of the game is to fill the board tiles using the knight chess piece. Levels start of simple, but become more complex leading up to the 10x10 board at the 60th level. Easy mode shows you the cells uoy can click on. It will help you to get uset to the gameplay.
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Bystander
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
Bystander is an opportunity to become an agent for tracking the network during totalitarianism. Your task is to search among other people's correspondence on the network those that contradict the current laws, copies of which you will receive by fax.
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30 Seconds To Jail
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hack_me.
An indie game about cops, drugs and Bob Marley where you have 30 seconds to hide your drugs.
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Indie Dev Simulator
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with hack_me.
In this game, you're playing as game developer and encounter typical problems like eating and sleeping. You need to correctly allocate your time for human needs, hobbies and work, to live another day as indie developer.
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Red Rush
Single-player alternative to hack_me — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hack_me.
Take care of restoring the economy and the status of a superpower of a once great country in one of the most difficult times for Russia.