The World Wide Wipe Out nearly erased everything on the internet, and the NCD — the Network Crime Division — was established to protect what remained. You are a hacker with no memory of your past, piecing together your history through the jobs you take. As your career grows, you begin to notice that the NCD, the organization meant to protect users, is actively supporting illegal operations across the network. Hacker.exe is a strategy-puzzle game about uncovering what the NCD is actually doing and why you became a hacker in the first place.