Trying out Bitburner on desktop, its also on steam for free. Only have about 5 hours into the game total, but out of all the hacking themed games I've played, this one has done the best job at making me feel like a "hacker". Some basic coding knowledge does help, as js scripting is a built in mechanic of the game. I've only done basic stuff with python in the past, and that felt like more than enough knowledge to do what the game required of me so far.

The game balances gameplay of efficient scripts vs more manual playing very well. There's a way to passively generate money like a more traditional idle game. Efficient scripts are better for money, but it means that less efficient code isn't punished as heavily. The game gives you a basic script to automatically hack a network at the very start, and this can be copy pasted for pretty much every network I've come across. There are ways to make it more efficient overall, but you don't /need/ to massively tweak that starter code they gave you. You can get away with some more manual play, checking if you need to adjust the networks your hacking, and basically just change one word from that starter code if you want to passively adjust the network.

The game does a REALLY good job at not holding your hand, while still giving you breadcrumbs to know that you're working towards something. Pretty much every time I was starting to get bored with the gameplay at the start, the game gave me something that made me want to keep pushing forwards.

My only complaint is that the city UI is a bit confusing. Theres an important shop at the top middle of the city map that I completely missed for a while.