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How To Hack In?

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How To Hack In?

A systems-driven, real-time hacking sandbox in a living, procedurally generated world. Profile people, infiltrate companies, exploit networks from your terminal, automate complex attacks, erase the evidence, trade stocks and crypto, and buy or sell intelligence on an underground marketplace.

Early Access Hacking Simulation Sandbox Typing
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Every system is a way in

How To Hack In? is a systems-driven hacking sandbox played through your own simulated workstation.

Each new game creates a world of people, companies, networks, websites, relationships, vulnerabilities, and secrets. What you find in one place can be useful somewhere else. That might mean using personal details for social engineering, trying exposed credentials against company systems, or compromising software used by other businesses.

Follow the connections, combine what you learn, and find your way in.

People are part of the network

NPCs have personalities, relationships, routines, and conflicts. Learn about them through social posts, files, transactions, and other information scattered across the world.

The Profiler brings those discoveries together into dossiers. Map relationships, identify useful hooks, connect people to digital assets, and use what you know to find opportunities that technical tools alone would miss.

Plan the operation your way

Gather information through websites, social media, email, files, network scans, and personal dossiers. Then choose your approach:

  • Crack credentials and explore internal networks.

  • Scan for vulnerable services and move between connected machines.

  • Find and exploit vulnerabilities in websites and admin panels.

  • Profile targets, uncover Weak and Strong hooks, and choose from phishing, vishing, pretexting, bribery, or leverage.

  • Route connections through compromised machines and clean up logs when you are done.

  • Build visual scripts to automate repeatable tasks.

An operation can be technical, social, financial, or a mix of all three.

Attack connected companies

Companies have suppliers, clients, competitors, code repositories, products, infrastructure, and economic health.

Compromise the software they use and carry out supply-chain attacks. If the incident reaches the news, it can damage the company's reputation and affect its stock price.

Rent remote servers, host websites, build command-and-control infrastructure, and manage agents across compromised systems.

Work across a simulated economy

Trade stocks and cryptocurrency, trace transactions, and investigate scam operations - or take them over yourself. Access an underground marketplace through Tor to buy or sell intelligence, hooks, and recovered artifacts.

Choose what to do with the information you uncover. Expose wrongdoing, help a victim, use evidence as leverage, manipulate stock prices, or profit from a criminal operation.

Build your hacking workstation

Assign custom shortcuts to individual app windows and switch between floating and tiling modes. Save configurations of open apps, then reload your preferred layout whenever you need it. Build reusable workflows with Visual Scripting.

Develop your preferred playstyle through the Skill Tree. Your CPU, RAM, and connectivity determine what your workstation can handle, while money, tools, and access determine which paths are open to you.

Learn at your own pace

Start with a tour of the workstation, use the searchable Wiki for quick reference, and turn to Guided Mode or Hackopilot when you need more specific guidance. Interactive Academy lessons teach key systems by letting you use them.

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System requirements Windows · Linux

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 15 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 11
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 15 GB available space

Linux

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed, Linux Mint 21.2 "Victoria" or SteamOS or equivalent
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 15 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed, Linux Mint 21.2 "Victoria" or SteamOS or equivalent
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Storage: 15 GB available space
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Red Buffalo Interactive
Brazilian rating
14
Steam Germany rating
16
Content warning
The game contains optional stylized images of topless adult women with visible breasts. Some missions and in-game text include private-photo blackmail, affairs, occasional strong language, and non-graphic references to death or violence. There are no depicted sexual acts, graphic violence, or gore.
Features
Single-player, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Languages
English*, Polish, German, French, Spanish - Spain
*languages with full audio support
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Buy Verdict

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Value Score

Fair Value — 59th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 59th percentile. Priced as Market at $12.99.

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Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 6%
Value Ratio Top 41%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is How To Hack In? worth buying right now?
Wait — $12.99. Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.
When does How To Hack In? go on sale?
Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.
Is How To Hack In? free to play?
How To Hack In? costs $12.99 on Steam.
What genre is How To Hack In??
How To Hack In? is a Indie, Simulation, Early Access game.
Who developed How To Hack In??
How To Hack In? was developed by Red Buffalo Interactive and published by Red Buffalo Interactive.
What platforms does How To Hack In? support?
Available on Steam for Windows, Linux.

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