Hacknet
Short description
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.
- Developer
- Team Fractal Alligator
- Publisher
- Fellow Traveller
- Release
- Wed, Aug 12, 2015
- Price
$9.99
$1.49
85%
best price ever- Reviews
- 16,961
- Positive
- 94%
- Followers
- 80,612
- Owners (estimated)
- 2M – 5M
- Concurrent players
- 31
- Genres
- Indie, Simulation
- Features
- Steam Trading Cards, Captions available, Steam Workshop, Adjustable Text Size, Camera Comfort, Playable without Timed Input, Includes level editor
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by the $9.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
72 data points since Jul 26, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 329 further data points reach back to Aug 1, 2015 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
The dashed line marks Jul 28, 2026, when steamlense started measuring. Everything to its left was backfilled from public sources — monthly review counts from Steam, price changes from IsThereAnyDeal, monthly player averages from SteamCharts. Those are monthly figures, so the curve is coarser there — one point a month instead of one a day.
Lowest recorded price: $1.49 on Apr 24, 2020. That is the current price.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Hacknet. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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CHAQS | nomorevalid 3 titles | 5 | − Story Rich + 2D | $9.90 | 50 | 76% | Tue, Nov 01, 2022 | $19k $9k – $34k |
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Hacker Simulator | Save All Studio 3 titles | 4 | − Programming − Story Rich + Realistic + Crime | $24.99 | 1,223 | 75% | Wed, Oct 20, 2021 | $1.3m $567k – $11.6m |
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Midnight Protocol | LuGus Studios 4 titles | 4 | − Simulation − Programming + Atmospheric + Turn-Based Strategy | $14.99 | 236 | 88% | Wed, Oct 13, 2021 | $139k $62k – $654k |
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Turing Complete | LevelHead first game | 3 | − Typing − Singleplayer − Story Rich + Logic + Education + Puzzle | $19.99 | 5,359 | 96% | Sat, Oct 02, 2021 | $4.7m $3.9m – $8.4m |
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TIS-100 | Zachtronics 14 titles | 3 | − Typing − Singleplayer − Story Rich + Puzzle + Indie + Difficult | $6.99 | 3,376 | 97% | Mon, Jul 20, 2015 | $1.3m $1.3m – $1.8m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.