
Desktop Explorer
Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.
If ⟨Unknown_Terminal⟩ scratched a mysterious and retro itch for you, keep reading. You might settle into these games easily.
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine. You are Tera, alone in your terminal window on a cold Illinois night. Your identity is lost, embedded somewhere within a haunted computer. Its code is a prison, but it's also your escape.
Mysterious, Minimalist, Story-driven
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Mysterious, Minimalist, Story-driven
Retro Hacker simulates hacking from a computer terminal with a text based operating system.
Mysterious, Retro, Minimalist
A letter asks you to investigate a missing person case with the help of a strange program called Desktop Explorer.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
Ever wanted to be a hacker? Hack your way into the heart of a mysterious organization to uncover their secrets. Hack RUN® is a game which uses 'old school' command prompts (like DOS or UNIX) that simulate a real operating system. Learn the commands of each system to help you navigate through your adventure.
Mysterious, Retro, Minimalist
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Mysterious, Retro, Minimalist
A terminal-style text adventure. Mix classic commands like look and take with real Unix commands (ls, cd, cat) and uncover, across 8 chapters and 4 endings, whether you are real or just code that believes it is.
Mysterious, Retro, Minimalist
Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure. Unlock hidden files, solve text-based puzzles, and piece together a fragmented AI as you uncover the truth behind a failed salvation and a buried past in this cold, atmospheric mystery.
Mysterious, Retro, Minimalist
Hacknet is a terminal-based hacking sim with a mystery at its heart. A hacker named Bit is dead, his automated failsafe has contacted you, and the media reports do not add up. Type real commands, break into systems, read other people's mail and find out what really happened.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven

Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.

Scan networks, crack databases and work out the next move yourself as a surveillance conspiracy slowly comes apart.

In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.

Infiltrate an unethical superstructure from a terminal, one typed command at a time.

Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Adventure through its decaying programs, solve puzzles, collect items and meet strange…

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones.

Clear 15 levels of robots, locks and hidden objectives, using stealth, gunfire or a command line, and chase a secret ending.

You bought a PC that belonged to a suicidal developer, do you dare to run "Game.exe"?

This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend.

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…

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

A terminal-driven psychological horror puzzle set in a secret Soviet underground research facility built after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

This is a desktop-like adventure game about exploration of the Deep Internet, a sequel to Project DeepWeb.

You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to rewrite them.

Scan networks, crack databases and work out the next move yourself as a surveillance conspiracy slowly comes apart.

Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.

You find an old computer with a forgotten program installed: Phantom Strike.

You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within.

Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine.

"Let's play a typing game." Dyping Escape is a simple game where you type according to instructions from the game master, a mysterious eyeball.

Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure.

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.