Zero-Day: Hacker Tycoon

One laptop. One handle. One rule: don't get traced.

You start at the bottom of the darknet food chain. You end it running the syndicate everyone else is afraid of. A hacking management sim where every breach is a gamble and the wrong move burns the whole operation down.

Race the trace. Pick a target. Pick an exploit. Then watch the trace bar crawl toward you while your crew tears through recon, exploit dev and the breach. Pull out too late and the payout is not all you lose.

A crew is a liability and a weapon. Recruit specialists in reversing, penetration, social engineering and operations. Burn them out and they walk. Seat rivals together and it falls apart, or pair the right two and they carry the score.

Build the machine.

• Engineer custom exploit frameworks
• Bury backdoors for silent, ongoing crypto
• Command a botnet, run multi-phase heists, work the market
• Move the money before the heat turns into a raid
• Open a second safehouse and run two breaches at once

The world fights back. Audits. Rival syndicates. Interpol crackdowns, worm outbreaks, crypto crashes. The news moves and the board moves with it.

Rise through the eras. Web 2.0, then Crypto, then AI/Quantum. Darker targets and sharper tools unlock as your clout climbs. Answer for it all at DEFCON.

No retirement, only prestige. Cash out, bank your onion tokens, go again harder.

The itch.io version: the full game. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account.

100,000 clout. Become the zero-day they can't catch.

Install: Android 7.0 or newer. Download the APK and allow installs from your browser or file manager. It installs as its own app next to any Play Store copy; saves are not shared between them. English, Korean and Japanese.

Credits

Font: Orbitron by The Orbitron Project Authors (SIL Open Font License 1.1).