Hacker Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 26, under the fair line, at $17.49.
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($7.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 780 GTX or AMD Radeon Radeon R7 260X series card or higher, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
May 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 31 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today's $17.49 at 30 percent off still sits 251 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Hacknet ($9.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Crime Simulator: Playgrounds ($0.69, scores 24).
21 of the 610 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 308 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 21 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 340 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 07:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Hacker Simulator scores 26/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1754840/hacker-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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