AVAILABLE NOW · WINDOWS / MACOS / LINUX

Break in.
Find the truth.
Choose the damage.

A command-driven hacking sim wrapped in a dark CRT-noir thriller. Trace fictional networks with real-feeling shell commands while local AI characters remember what you do—and what you say.

Single-player · 20 achievements · Steam Cloud · $9.99 USD

LIVE SYSTEM / KERBEROAST TGSTRACE 61%
Signal Drift gameplay showing a credential-recovery operation, terminal output, Mission Control, and active communications.
READABLE COMMANDS · REACTIVE SYSTEMS · MULTIPLE ROUTES
STATUSAvailable now
ROLESFour long-form arcs
DIALOGUELocal character AI
NETWORKFictional & self-contained

THE OPERATION LOOP

The briefing is not the truth.

Clients give you a target, not the whole story. Every command reveals residue. Every decision leaves a mark.

01Scan

Find the surface

Discover hosts, identify exposed services, and decide which thread is worth pulling.

nmap -sV 10.60.24.0/24
02Infiltrate

Get inside

Recover credentials, cross trust boundaries, and move between machines through readable commands.

ssh broker@relay-03
03Reconstruct

Prove what happened

Trace logs, processes, mail, records, and suspicious residue until the briefing stops adding up.

grep -R "override" /var/log
04Decide

Choose the damage

Expose the evidence. Sell it. Alter it. Erase it. Then survive the people who needed a different answer.

scp evidence.tar rig:/casefiles
A SignalOS intrusion in progress with command output, an identity graph, mission objectives, and communications.
OPERATION / ACCESS SURFACETHE SHELL IS THE INTERFACE
Signal Ghost contacts talking with the player in an occupied IRC room.
SIGNAL IRC / LIVEINFERENCE: LOCAL

SIGNAL GHOST

The terminal is occupied.

Contacts remember shared history, react to the current job, and change with rapport and betrayal.

Ask for a lead. Challenge a lie. Accuse somebody. Provoke a rival. Signal Ghost responds from that character's voice, motives, relationship, and knowledge of your run—not from a detached assistant.

AUTHORITY BOUNDARY

Dialogue runs locally on your machine. Authored game systems still decide what is true and what can change.

Read the engineering story

FOUR MASKS

Four versions of the truth.

Each role carries its own contacts, betrayals, pressure points, and endings. Master one mask, then return to find the routes you missed.

01DEBT / LEVERAGE

Independent Operator

Work for yourself, price the risk, and learn which broker has been pricing your survival.

02TRACE / COUNTERTRACE

Hacker

Hunt compromised operators, hostile systems, and the machinery turning your fingerprints into evidence.

03ORDERS / DENIABILITY

Field Specter

Follow deniable orders through a counterintelligence war where your handler may be the threat.

04ACCESS / COMPLIANCE

Corporate Espionage

Weaponize boardroom secrets while the people above you prepare a scapegoat.

Signal Drift's Available Runs board showing different contracts and role-driven recommendations.
RUN SELECTORSTATEFUL / NONLINEAR

CONNECTION READY

Somebody needs the evidence buried.

Signal Drift is available now on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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All networks, organizations, records, identities, commands, and intrusion scenarios are fictional and self-contained. Signal Drift does not connect to or provide access to real external systems.