Last updated on February 13th, 2026 at 08:00 pm
Hack Ex – Roleplaying Game Review
Hack Ex is a Roleplaying/Simulation game from CNC Apps, LLC, first launched in 14th February 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,509+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hack Ex Stand Out
Become the ultimate hacker under your alias in this virtual hacking game. Hack other players' devices and defend yours to build a reputation in the hacking world. Crack players' virtual bank accounts, upload viruses to generate money, manipulate their logs and more. And remember to clear your digital footprint… that’s what being the ultimate hacker is about, after all.
- This is not real hacking. It's only a game.
Features:
- Quick to learn. No real hacking knowledge required.
- Upgrade your virtual device to improve processing speed.
- Upgrade your utility apps to better your defenses and attack with more success.
- Hack into players’ virtual bank accounts and transfer their funds to your account.
- Upload viruses on other players’ devices to earn you money and spy on their activity.
- Hide your activity from your in-game logs or manipulate others.
- Add your friends to your in-game Contacts and transfer funds to them.
Note: This game requires an internet connection.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hack Ex is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th February 2026
Recent improvements include:
Delete account, google sign in fix and other improvements
Download & Availability
Hack Ex is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is a fun virtual hacking game to play. You get in the zone and be the top hacker on the net! It's similar to the web based game…. "hacker-experience".
We dont know what to say here we just love this game theres no words to describe its brilliance us and our friends sometimes all hack the same person and share the funds sometimes we hack each other its all about strategy and how you play we play this game all the time and its truly amazing thank you so much for creating this game.
We started playing this game from when it was first released and we love it today just as much as when we started. Bravo, please please please please please keep this game going. We have a suggestion. Can we add hack process without making the time to hack longer. And Mabey different types of viruses, spam or malicious software to upload on competitor hackers. Any update honestly would be amazing. And shoutout for never having adds for years. Yall are rad.
Your game is the best game we have ever played we love your game.
We like the way you can friend people and get a daily check.
Ive been playing this game for a while and we love it a lot. It has a smooth gameplay system. And is very fun. We just wish they would come back to the big community they have waiting for them and ready to support them.
We find this extremely interesting and fun, mostly because it simulates hacking accurately.
We like that it gives you the feel that you are actually hacking some's things but you aren't. That is the best part but there is more like, the more you level up the more OC you get (Over Clock), malware letting you see what people are doing when they are on the game, and you get to choose you're own wallpaper.
Fun to play with, its like being a real hacker and brute forcing into other people accounts.
Not a bad game but we rarely play this app. We want to change email addresses but it wont let us. We cant even delete our account because there is no option. Other than that the game is okay.
Very fun little time consuming but fun non the less.
Days seem sometimes as if they'll never end Sun digs its heels to taunt you But after sunlit days, one thing stays the same Rises the moon Days fade into a watercolour blur Memories swim and haunt you But look into the lake, shimmering like smoke Rises the moon Oh-oh, close your weary eyes we promise you that soon the autumn comes To darken fading summer skies Breathe, breathe, breathe Days pull you down just like a sinking ship Floating is getting harder But tread the water, child, and know that meanwhile Rises the moon Days pull you up just like a daffodil Uprooted from its garden They'll tell you what you owe, but know even so Rises the moon You'll be visited by sleep we promise you that soon the autumn comes To steal away each dream you keep Breathe, breathe, breathe.
Thank you this is the best app ever.
We remember playing this game with friends in high school. We would constantly hack each other. We wish more people were online playing this again. We feel its a ghost town now but only man did it bring the memories. Our only gripe being the higher level you are, the quicker it should be to hack someone. Versus if that person is a super high level, and you are as well, it will take you just as long as someone whose a lower level than you. But we really missed playing this game.
The game is fun, but everything takes forever. Its an old game with a sparse community and uploading viruses takes forever. Our phone and network are maxed but we still have 322 days until our level 120 spam uploads like- how am we ever supposed to play this game continuously if we have to wait 322 days for one virus to upload?? Also, we cant speed up the process with ads because you only ever load one ad per 24-48 hours this last ad took one week to load. Like- we got on daily checking to see if the ad was ready to watch and it said Ad still loading. Please try again. Im sure as heck not dumping money into this game but Ill help you make money by watching an ad if it will load and then wed both win. But you have like 2 ads per week and hows that supposed to help us or you? Otherwise fun. EDIT: Now there are frustrating bugs in the ads. On downloads that take literally more than 500 years in days to download, theres a bug that happens after you watch an ad to remove percentage of time from it and then wait a day and watch another ad. It drops the percentage left from the previous percentage to less than half a percent.
Its a cool game once you get the hang of it.
Was looking for a app after playing watch dogs and found this game to be more than we thoughr.
Would give 5 stars if the video adds worked to help speed up the time for the 10% and so forth admin needs to fix that so you don't gotta wait so long there's some we done it says like 600days that's over a year there's no way anyone's waiting a year to hack someone else in game that's a bit over kill. Lol.
Now that im older and came back to this game its kinda boring now, barely any replay ability, just upgrade, hack, steal, repeat. Nothing new happens.
The game is fun, but everything takes forever. Its an old game with a sparse community and uploading viruses takes forever. Our phone and network are maxed but we still have 322 days until our level 120 spam uploads like- how am we ever supposed to play this game continuously if we have to wait 322 days for one virus to upload?? Also, we cant speed up the process with ads because you only ever load one ad per 24-48 hours this last ad took one week to load. Like- we got on daily checking to see if the ad was ready to watch and it said Ad still loading. Please try again. Im sure as heck not dumping money into this game but Ill help you make money by watching an ad if it will load and then wed both win. But you have like 2 ads per week and hows that supposed to help us or you? Otherwise fun.
This game is so much fun for the first bit, but after a while your level climbs but nothing pays off. You can have a level in the 700s and still take hours to hack things in the 50-100s. It doesnt pay out for investing in upgrades.
If you do, please add still play this to your reviews! Still play this.
Great game! We love it so much and its a little hard in the early game because you usually have like a level 1 firewall but we love it ( P.S if this pops up as a 1-star review that was our mistake).
We love this app and we think it would be cool if you were to add games, some paid and some free. This would mean, more time in app, and for those of us that don't want to exit the app for whatever reason (us) caan play it. Th games don't have to be 3d games but a little clicker, or rhythm type game. Thanks for reading this.
We have had this game on our phone for a while now, we dont know if anyone still plays this (there probably is) and now we want to write this review for the fun we have had with this. We originally downloaded this game when we went through this hacker phase and wanted to be a hacker we looked on the AppStore for games that could give us that feeling, since at the time we were a kid who did not know how to hack (we did know how to program though). The game really did have the feeling of being a hacker that is when we actually figured out how to play For the longest time we did not know how to play, but one day it just clicked and now Im on the leaderboard (probably because there is no competition). If you want to spend the time to learn how this game works, its pretty fun :) 10/10.
Its a fun game and you should play.
Fun little time waster. We wish there was a bit of a retro look, like youd see on older machines. The current aesthetic is fine, though.
This game is such a great game. Got it last Thursday took us like 3-5 minutes to figure it out. Definitely recommend it.
Have had it since 2016. Honestly a pretty cool game its a little hard to get the hang of but youll get there. Download it if youre looking for something to help time pass.
The only flaw we have found is that if you save more than a billion crypto the game errors and deletes all of your money. Just lost a billion. Oh well.
We were surprised to find this game again. Love it.
THIS GAME IS WAYYYYYYYYY TO GOOD INSTALL! (if interested).
The game itself is fun. No log out button is kinda bad. But overall the game is engaging and keeps the player on their toes.
Could use some fancier transitions and more replay ability.
Im a long time Hack Ex player, since mid 2013, and we still enjoy it. We rated this game on the Google Play Store app when we had the Android devices we played this on. Ive had a IOS device for over a year now and yes this is our first review on this game on this device since Ive had it and of course just like our rating on the Android devices. Its still rated five stars.
This game is fun and addictive! We played it for awhile then got a new phone and just found it again! The one big problem we see is its not worth watching the ads to speed up your timers. The timers change like it worked but once it gets to completing you still end up waiting the actual time it would have taken just with out the timer. Recommend this game just dont waste time on ads! Have fun and enjoy.
We love the game we really do our only problem is is that we have been uploading lvl 300 spam to everyone we visit but recently we looked to see how long it would take and IT SAID 8928 AND THATS AFTER we removed 10% even if we paid for the 5000 overclockes it still wouldnt be done cmon man. Ok everything in our list is over 1300 days can we tone that down or? Its a great game but we dont want to wait about 9000 days just for a spam lvl 300 please help. CanadianHacker;).
Edit: Had about 290 mil Btc in our bank, uploaded 2 lvl 1003 spams and it just reset our bank because it tried to give us 3 billion. Please dev if you're reading this just make this simple fix by adding more to the cap itll make things way simpler. For this Im making our review 4 stars we remember in early 2015 when the game first came out we were immediately captivated by how simple yet rewarding a game could be. It kills time super well seeing that overclocks are very easy to obtain id spent well. Hack Ex dev, we remember a group chat you were in we were in too, you were very kind to people then and we must say you're doing very very well. We just downloaded it again after 5 years of not touching it and we think we will be playing it more.
We like this game but we have some new features that you could add. Can you add a pause button so that we can pause certain processes so that other ones will load faster? Can you also add DDoS attacks so that you can slow down victims processes? Can you add a way to pay people as well? We think it would be cool if you could add a bitcoin miner or a way to buy and sell bitcoin to make money. If you could add those things, or just one of them, we would really appreciate that.
Right now it wont let us sign into our account bc Its not letting us sign in with Facebook.
We agree with the statements of some others that when watching ads to speed up a download or upload time can cause a download to go from 40% complete to 0.15% complete. With downloads literally taking years to complete for a game only way is to continue hacking and cracking but there comes a time that people upgrade encryptors before you can crack them since it takes so long to crack without watching ads. It is starting to get unplayable.
It is actually a fun game, but ads no longer play to remove time. It constantly says ad still loading Ive waited 3 days and its the same thing. Needs fixed.
This game started getting better as Im trying to watch ads to speed up process after the first ad no other ad would load up until we restart the app which is annoying consider we watch ads until the reward is 1% now that we been playing this game again for a few weeks we also start to notice the ads boost dosent work anymore it says watch ads to remove 8% when its currently at 10% after watching the ads it drops instead of removing 8% makes it 18% removed it says 0.35% complete which makes no sense to off ads to removes time off and not honor that reward so in return the company gets paid from the ads but the user doesnt receive the rewards promised this is starting to feel like a pay to win game.
Has a very great concept but we hope they add more cpus and a better use for spyware but great app either way.
Its very good game simple but addictive we liked it not very popular but a good game we feel like this game should get more attention so ya oo.
When we try to watch an add for 10% less time on a process, it doesnt let us close out of the ad when it is over. We have to close the app and reopen and that nullifies the progress on the add watch.
Its an amazing game Ive been playing it every day for 8 days now, the only issue is everyday Im supposed to be getting overlocks for being on there continuously. It says Ive earned 350 overlocks for our 8 day streak but we dont see them in our account. It would be nice to be rewarded but Ill still play because its fun.
The one problem we keep having is when using ads to speed up the proccess. Which we have to do otherwise Ima be waiting for years and years. What happens quite often is after the ad it's resets the time and makes it impossible to speed up again. Please fix this.
Whether your uploading viruses or downloading apps, all the processes take dozens or hundreds of days. Even if you watch ads, it only reduces time by 31% after 5 ads. Please make it so you can upgrade the network device or maybe compress the size of the viruses with an upgrade, as all other processes (cracking, bypassing, etc.) take much less time.
This game is very patience based. It gets to the point where something will take weeks of real life time to get something done. As annoying as it may seem its not that bad and that is only under certain circumstances.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.8.4
- Size: 23.82 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [CNC Apps, LLC]()
Last updated: 13th February 2026 | Genre: Roleplaying, Simulation | Developer: CNC Apps, LLC