FOR DUMMIES

These hacking games won’t make you do maths

The Red Strings Club

This is mostly about bartending, but it climaxes in a hackathon done over the phone by impersonating people to unlock corporate secrets.

Analogue: A Hate Story

On a colony ship where everyone is long-dead the only way to uncover the truth is by searching the logs and maybe flirting with the AI.

Pony Island

An innocent-seeming arcade cabinet is actually a cursed, Satanic artifact. You need overcome it by hacking the devil, and making a pretty pony jump over fences.

Shadow run: Dragon fall

In this fantasy RPG with mirror-shades on, cracking computers is turn-based combat where you summon viruses instead of elementals.