Cyber Hunt: a threat-hunting arcade game
Pilot a quarantine drone through a neon 3D network and tag infected creatures before they reach your Core. Each wave pushes you deeper — through five sectors, from the DMZ to the Core Datacenter — and every third wave ends in a boss fight. It runs in your browser, on desktop or phone.
How to play
- Move: W A S D or the arrow keys. On a phone, use the on-screen joystick (landscape works best).
- Tag: Space or Enter quarantines the infection you are closest to. Tags in a row build a combo for more points.
- Protect the Core: every infection that gets through costs Core integrity. Clear a wave to restore some of it.
- Power-ups: EMP freezes every threat for a few seconds, Overclock tags anything near you automatically, and Shield absorbs one hit.
The five sectors
DMZ Perimeter → Internal Subnet → Identity / AD → Kubernetes Cloud → Core Datacenter. The deeper you go, the faster the infections move — the same way an intruder gets harder to evict the further they get from the perimeter.
What it teaches
Threat hunting is proactive: you go looking for what got past your defences instead of waiting for an alert. The game turns that into reflexes — scan wide, prioritise what is closest to your crown jewels, and contain fast before it spreads. To practise the real skill, try the tools below.