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Fallout Gamers Surprised With New Free Game You Can Play Now
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Published 12:34 12 Feb 2026 GMT

Fallout Gamers Surprised With New Free Game You Can Play Now

Take Fallout's hacking terminals for a spin

Olly Smith

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Topics: Bethesda, Fallout, Free Games, Mobile Games, PC

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Fallout players, you may want to check out this brand new free game available for mobile and PC desktop browsers.

The Fallout series has a few enjoyable minigames, but one that I’ve always found joy in is the hacking minigame that comes whenever you interact with a locked terminal.

These minigames usually task you with finding a password in a huge jumble of random words and codes, with each guess telling you how many of the letters you’ve found are correct and in the right order.

I’m pretty sure I’ve caught myself before saying, “I’d play this if it was a full game”, and now it seems like this has become a reality thanks to a new free game released by Fallout fan protocol_unknown.

A Fallout Fan Has Recreated The Hacking Minigame As A Full Free Game

It's called Hackinal, and it's essentially an expanded version of the hacking terminal minigames from Fallout 3 onwards.

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The game is set up very similarly to how the hacking minigame works in the Bethesda Fallout series. You’re presented with a password and a set of words to find. Choosing incorrectly will give you a hint at how many correct letters there are in the word you’ve selected, while also giving you a limited number of tries.

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Fallout fans may even be happy to hear it has dud removal too, which is a feature of the Fallout hacking minigame where players can activate matching sets of brackets that look like '(), [], {}, or <>' that will remove incorrect passwords from the screen or reset your guessing attempts.

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There are five levels of difficulty, beginning rather easy and getting much more complicated as you continue playing. The later levels are quite difficult, I have to say, matching the harder puzzle terminals that are in the Fallout games.

I’ve been playing it for the past 15 minutes and it doesn’t get old. It’s a really great way to kill some time.

This, of course, leads me on to think about what other minigames from popular video games could become their own fully fledged releases. Lockpicking in Skyrim? Caravan from Fallout: New Vegas? Orlog from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla?

You can play Hackinal by heading to the game’s official website on a computer or mobile phone web browser. It's completely free to play, and has a lot of levels available.

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