Welcome to the Wargame Nexus
This is an organized, PR-able list of wargame sites. If you know of a (reasonable) wargame site not on this list (and there are definitely some), shoot me a PR.
You can aggregate your score across many of these sites by registering on WeChall.
Wargames Listing
Legend
recommended wargame
beginner difficulty
downloadable challenges
no scoreboard
bitrotted
dead
only playable in language X
The chals below are listed with recommended ones first, then the rest in alphabetical order.
Beginner
General
- pwn.college
- TryHackMe
- PicoCTF
- root-me
- W3Challs
- WeChall
- archive.ooo
- 0x539
- CTFLearn
- CpawCTF2
- CpawCTF
- Defend the Web
- ExploitExercises Main Sequence
- ExploitExercises Nebula
- Flagyard
- HackTheBox
- HackThisSite
- HallsOfValhalla
- HellBound Hackers
- Komodo CTF
- MAGURO β
- MNCTF
- Ma's Reversing
- Net-Force
- NewbieContest
- Open Security Training
- Open Security Training 2
- OverTheWire Semtex
- RingZer0Team Online CTF
- SmashTheStack Logic
- VulnHub
- YEHD 2015 CTF
- akictf
- hacker.org
- ksnctf
- 柚子胡椒CTF
Binary Pwning
- pwnable.kr
- pwnable.tw
- ExploitExercises Fusion
- ExploitExercises Phoenix
- HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver
- IO64
- IO
- Microcorruption
- OverTheWire Behemoth
- OverTheWire Drifter
- OverTheWire Manpage
- OverTheWire Maze
- OverTheWire Narnia
- OverTheWire Unomo
- OverTheWire Vortex
- ROP Emporium
- ROP.sh
- pwnable.xyz
Binary Reversing
Prompt Injection
Mobile
Web
- alert(1) to win
- websec.fr
- webhacking.kr
- 0xf.at
- Google Gruyere
- HackerTest
- OverTheWire Natas
- Stereotyped Challenges
- Wizer CTF
- XSS Game
- XSS PwnFunction
- XSS game area
Crypto
Forensics
Cloud
Unsorted
Not Security
Developing some core CS skills can be useful for security as well!
Gone, but not forgotten
These sites have gone offline (or taken their challenges offline). I track them here to periodically check for their return (which does happen sometimes!).
- Backdoor
- Bright Shadows
- CHALLENGE LAND
- ctfs.me
- HackBurger
- HackMe
- hax.tor
- IOarm
- The Enigma Group
- WTHack
- MMA CTF
- CodeEngn
- HackerGateway
- Mod-X
Credit
I acquired the links here over a very long career. At some point, I started noting down resources that led me to these links. They are:
- https://medium.com/@a.hilton83/learning-resources-a0a859bf9dbd
- http://captf.com/practice-ctf/
- http://www.wechall.net/sites.php
- http://ctf.forgottensec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
- https://github.com/carpedm20/awesome-hacking
- https://csea-iitb.github.io/IITBreachers-wiki/2020/08/01/Hacking-Sites.html