Darknet

Darknet is a strategy and puzzle game that casts you as a top-tier hacker prowling the Net. You plug into cyberspace and deploy viruses, worms and exploits to seize the data you are after, all before security traces your signal back to you.

Simple at a glance, it quickly demands second- and third-order logical thinking under a tight time limit, which earned it awards across PSVR, Oculus Rift, the Gear VR and an Oculus VR Jam grand prize. It now runs on the HTC Vive and ships with a non-VR version for anyone without a headset.

The mood leans hard into a 1990s vision of hacking, the cyberpunk fantasy of films like Hackers and Tron, where you crack open nodes and drop viruses one step ahead of the system. Critics have called it one of the oldest VR games around and still one of the best, an engaging puzzle game that can quietly swallow hours at a time.