Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure
Released Aug 2020
How far would you go to save your daughter? As an infamous hacker-for-hire you have the skills to steal almost any secret. But when your daughter is taken, will you be able to use these skills to uncover a dark conspiracy that goes further than you could ever imagine?
91% positive · 247 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $9.99
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Evaluation
Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure launched on August 31, 2020 as a complete, self-contained narrative game. The developer (a solo indie developer going by "Lint") shipped the game as a finished product from day one, with post-launch activity consisting entirely of bug fixes and a MacOS port with cloud save support — no new story content or expansions were ever added.
On the game's first anniversary (August 31, 2021), the developer reflected warmly on the game's impact on their career, celebrated its success, and expressed a general hope to "bring many more great things to play with in the future." Crucially, this was framed as excitement about future projects, not a commitment to additional content for Greyhat specifically. No DLC, expansions, or post-launch content were ever announced or released. There have been no developer communications since August 31, 2021.
The store description presents the game as a complete story experience with a defined narrative arc. No season pass, roadmap, or unshipped content appears anywhere in the store listing. This game launched complete and has remained so.
Evidence
Developer announces the game is now available on Steam, describing it as their first story-driven single-player adventure and expressing hope it will be the first of many such games — framing it as a complete launch.
On the game's first anniversary, the developer reflects on the game's positive impact on their career and mentions hoping to bring players 'many more great things in the future' — referring to future projects, not additional Greyhat content. This is the last developer communication on record.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Limited Games
Achievements
26
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
In GREYHAT, you play as yourself, an infamous hacker-for-hire with skills and abilities that allow you to infiltrate any computer. One day, you complete a job only to discover that you have crossed some very powerful people, and in their revenge your daughter is taken.
To right this wrong you must hack into other people's computers, look through their files, read their emails, mess with their software, and find clues that may lead you closer to bringing your daughter home.
In GREYHAT, you will:
- Steal from a pharmaceutical giant incriminating Test Reports that show their product to be unsafe
- Hack into air traffic control to help land multiple planes flying blind due to an AI glitch
- Stop an aggressive rogue nation from launching a nuke by accessing their submarine's computer systems
- Help leak a secret list containing the name of every single member of a controversial Neo-Nazi organization
- Bring justice to a murdered woman by identifying the killer in a case left cold by police inaction
- And many, many more!
Game Features:
- A gripping techno-thriller story about love, loss, and the lengths a parent would go to for their child
- Learn to think, act, and react like a hacker
- Choose how you respond in text chats with allies and foes alike, each with their own personality and agenda
- A wide variety of mind-racking levels, each with their own unique setting, puzzles, clues, twists and mini-games
- Read text logs, emails, journal notes and browsing histories that reveal the true nature of your targets behind the public mask they wear
- Clues, passwords, and solutions are randomized. Every play through is different!
- GREYHAT aims to immerse you in its world. Play as yourself, with your own name, gender and hacker alias
- Collectibles in the form of side-stories, poems, wallpapers, and cryptocurrency can be found in each level
- An estimated playtime of 10-15 hours, depending on how good a detective you are
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 25, 2026
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