Hack RUN
Fair · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 1.7h 1.8h to 100%
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 84% of 238 positive
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, any. Windows only.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Idle Research (free, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer(大富翁) (free, scores 5).
The drop-off
91% start to 27% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Hack RUN approaches the fantasy of computer hacking from a deliberately minimalist direction, abandoning elaborate cyberpunk graphics in favor of an old-school command-line environment. Developed and published by i273 LLC, it is essentially a text-driven hacking adventure built around investigation, puzzle solving, and careful observation. The simplicity of its appearance might initially suggest a very small...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's a nice short game, it has interesting plot and it's a fun way to pass a couple of hours. You need a lot of observation skills, otherwise you miss important details, that help you advance the game.
I don't like to leave negative reviews but I really can't recommend this game unless you're really bored and have nothing better to do for a few hours. Anyway, the subject matter of hacking sounded interesting so I thought I'd give it a ago but "hacking" is very much a stretch... really you're just mostly reading email looking for a clue to a password for the next person to "hack". There's no real puzzle here, some...
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Cite this score
Hack RUN scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/378110/hack-runReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.