Hacking games October 11, 2006
Posted by Martin in Gaming, Simulation Games.trackback
Uplink
A few weeks ago it came to my attention that a very interesting type of game was released through the Steam platform. The game I saw was Uplink. It is made by the English company Introversion and is available since 2002, and as of august also through Steam.
In Uplink you play an Uplink-agent whose objectives are hacking into networks of competitors, banks and so forth. If you’re good at it, you get incredibly rich and have a very fast computer and lots of tools which enable you to break into the biggest mainframes, doing even more mischief and acquiring even more wealth. If you’re sloppy and forget to wipe logs, you’ll get busted and loose everything.
Hacking games
When I played Enter The Matrix a few years ago, I found the hacking feature the most entertaining part of the game. Unfortunately a google-search for hacking games didn’t come up with relevant results back then. I did that search again and I’ve compiled the below list of hacking games.
Name: Uplink
Website: http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink
Name: HackTheGame
Website: http://www.chaozz.nl/hackthegame/
Name: Street Hacker
Website: http://www.streethacker.com
Name: Hacker2012
Website: http://www.hacker2012.com
Name: Digital Overlay
Website: http://terminalzero.com
Name: Mindlink
Website: http://www.hacker2004.com/mindlinkoriginal.html
Name: Hacker 2003 (Mindlink 2.0)
Website: http://www.hacker2004.com/hacker2003.html
Name: Hacker 2004
Website: http://www.hacker2004.com
Name: Hacker 2005 The Broken Link
Website: http://www.hacker2005.com
Name: PortSign
Website: http://terminalzero.com
Name: Dark Signs
Website: http://www.darksigns.com
Name: Digital Hazard
Website: http://www.exosyphen.com
Name: BS Hacker
Website: http://www.exosyphen.com
Name: Galactic Hacker
Website: http://www.geocities.com/natsogames
Name: Slave Hack (webbased hacking simulator)
Website: http://www.slavehack.com
Thats my collected list:
Offline:
AI Wars
Streethacker (one of the best, imo)
Uplink
Hacker Evolution – exoSyphen Studios 2007
Hacker 2012, 2004, 2005 - Terminal Zero
Hacker Syndicate – Terminal Zero
Digital Overlay
PortSign (was planned with online capability but stopped)
Decker (Shadowrun Matrix rebuild)
Blue Sky – Terminal Zero
Digital Hazard – exoSyphen Studios
BS Hacker Replay/Unlimited – exoSyphen Studios (console)
Mindlink
FATE I and II
Codelink v1
Hack the Universe – Blind Virus/Terminal Zero
Endgame: Singularity – emhsoft.com
DarkSigns
HackTheGame http://www.hackerforever.com
Online:
Nanobyte Online (WIP)
Bytelink (WIP)
Codelink Online v2 (WIP)
Browser
Claudio-One http://www.claudio.co.nz
CyberWars – http://www.cyber-wars.com
net-hackerz – http://aldihighway.de/nh/
Cyberhats
Slavehack (of course!)
Nethack
Hack Wars http://www.hackwars.net
Hack-the-net games (boring after a short while)
(World Hack Organization)
Domain Knights 3 – very nice one! Hard competition
hijackerz
Cypher
http://www.hackerforever.com
Vaporware
Galactic Hacker - gamesforfree.net
SYscracker
Nabu offline
Born2Hack
some other
RVL Hacker
-http://www.rvlgames.com/
Mother
-http://www.v4ldemar.net/mother/
Darksigns MSP (online)
http://omnisoft.comyr.com/darksigns/
Hey, I’m a developer over at http://www.hackwars.net
We’ve been working on the game a ton in 2009, and are really starting to kick some butt content wise
If you’re interested in a hacking game with a real programming language, I encourage your readers to check it out.
Johnny_Heart (Hacker-in-Chief)
Check out codelink v2… free and fun. its the closest thing to uplink 2
http://truthisaweapon.com