Games like Payload

Chasing that retro and story-driven feeling you got from Payload? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

Void Future: Hacking Protocol
In Void Future: Hacking Protocol, you play as a hacker in a cyberpunk world ruled by corporations. Hack, solve puzzles, and uncover a global conspiracy. Hunted by a system that never sleeps, you’ll need to stay hidden, outsmart surveillance, and fight to survive.
Story-driven, Minimalist, Mysterious
88% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$9.74
Uplink
A hacking sim from 2001 that still nails the fantasy: take contracts, crack passwords, bounce your connection across the world, and scrub every log before the trace catches you. Upgrade your rig, pick a side in a growing conspiracy, and learn the hard way that one forgotten log can end your career.
Retro, Story-driven, Minimalist
89% of 1,770 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$11.99
Full Void
A gripping, retro-inspired 2D cinematic puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian future where AI has taken over humanity. A short game in handcrafted pixel art, to experience in a film-like journey. Play as a young teenager, alone in a run-down world, relying only on your hacking skills to survive.
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
91% of 252 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
BitVault
Become an expert hacker by using your raw brainpower! Learn how to get ahead in your new job at a cybersecurity company. Analyze servers for weaknesses, and hack them using their own subroutines to access the data they protect.
Retro, Minimalist, Mysterious
100% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Hack.ing
It's the easiest game in the world. If you like green and hate red, know how to unlock doors with keys, and can connect circles with lines, you can beat the game very easily.
Retro, Minimalist
$0.99
Project: AFTERSHOCK
Project: AFTERSHOCK is a fast-paced arcade hacking roguelite set in a dystopian future. Command a 20-year-old legacy terminal to breach enemy systems, siphon funds, and upgrade your hardware. Use your reflexes to survive the countdown and bring down the very system you created.
Retro, Story-driven, Minimalist
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
NULLPTR
A real-time tactical hacking puzzle where every move reshapes the challenge. Infiltrate megacorp servers, reroute connections, gather valuable data, and outsmart evolving defenses, all while racing against the clock and the ever-present threat of adaptive sentinels.
Retro, Story-driven, Minimalist
100% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
868-BACK
868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike game where your mission is to dismantle capitalism one server at a time! Use hacking powers to fight enemies, steal the servers' data, and face increasingly nasty situations before being disconnected (again!) by the richest corporations on earth.
Retro, Minimalist, Mysterious
98% of 135 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Ghost In The Grid
A short cyberpunk story about a security technician investigating a system outage in a city sector cut off from the network. The deeper he ventures into the digital underworld, the darker the truths he uncovers...
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
95% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Control:Override
Control:Override is a puzzle game where you must share control between the environment and yourself. Defy Physics. Solve puzzles . Terminate the rogue AI. And perhaps confront the truth about why it went rogue.
Retro, Story-driven, Minimalist
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
DROP - System Breach
Welcome to DROP, a fast-paced action-strategy hacking simulator. Ready to hack your way to fame and fortune while avoiding getting caught? Use stealth and cunning to maneuver between the ongoing power struggle of corporations and factions to control the fragmented networks in the city.
Retro, Minimalist, Mysterious
85% of 180 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hack Grid
Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. Hack Grid is a retro puzzle game that will test your wits as it brings you back in time. Move the pieces around until only one remains. Re-live the days of DOS gaming.
Retro, Minimalist
100% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Hidden gems like Payload

868-BACK

868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike game where your mission is to dismantle capitalism one server at a time!

$19.99

NODE

NODE is a 2.5D puzzle platformer set in a Cold War era nuclear complex.

$24.99

ABI-DOS

Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine?

Free

Full Void

A gripping, retro-inspired 2D cinematic puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian future where AI has taken over humanity.

$11.99

Access Denied: Escape

Access Denied: Escape is a puzzle game where you have to hack data vaults and interact with various devices to escape.

$4.99

DROP - System Breach

Welcome to DROP, a fast-paced action-strategy hacking simulator. Ready to hack your way to fame and fortune while avoiding getting caught?

$9.99

Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)

After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny…

Free

Beyond a Steel Sky

Chase a kidnapped child into a city run by an AI that seems too kind, hack its systems and unravel what is really going on.

$34.99

VirtuaVerse

VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR…

$14.99

Axiom

In a cyberpunk world where giant corporations take advantage of their power, only those with the ability to enter the human mind can stop corruption…

Free

Quadrilateral Cowboy

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…

$19.99

CuberPunk 2089

CuberPunk 2089 - A game with an open world in a cubical style from the first person!

$1.29

Newest games like Payload

Anonymized

Play as a digital rat and hack your way into the retro-futuristic grid-based movement puzzle world of Anonymized, where you shift hues and dive…

$8.99

Radiotext

Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.

$11.99

Hazard Pay

In this pixel-art dystopian block-pushing puzzler, a shadowy client has hired you to navigate a network of hazardous secret labs.

$16.99

Dataminers

Get inside the mind of an ethical hacker and race against the firewall as you collect data, hack terminals and bring enemies down from the inside.

$6.99

Project: AFTERSHOCK

Project: AFTERSHOCK is a fast-paced arcade hacking roguelite set in a dystopian future.

$0.49

Void Future: Hacking Protocol

In Void Future: Hacking Protocol, you play as a hacker in a cyberpunk world ruled by corporations.

$9.74

void future prologue

Void Future: Prologue is a standalone free experience set in the universe of Void Future.

Free

CORE.SYS

CORE.SYS is a brainteasing action puzzler where you’ll need to break through layers of digital security with quick-thinking strategy.

$4.99

868-BACK

868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike game where your mission is to dismantle capitalism one server at a time!

$19.99

Untrusted: hackers at large

A single player hacking adventure set in the Untrusted world where you'll be playing as various hackers getting into computer systems to hack, steal…

$12.99

H4CT0PL45M

Play as the ghost in the machine and hack your way through the 48 levels of the puzzle-platformer H4CT0PL45M!

$4.99

NULLPTR

A real-time tactical hacking puzzle where every move reshapes the challenge.

$14.99