Games like Data Center

Looking for that same minimalist and relaxing spark as Data Center? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Uptime: A Cloud Provider Sim
Build a cloud provider from a garage to a hyperscaler - rack the hardware, run every cable, route the traffic, keep customers online. A first-person infrastructure sim where ports, power, fault domains, RSTP and BGP do real work, not flavour text. Readable for newcomers, honest for engineers.
Also in Tycoon and Co-op
92% of 71 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$7.49
Tower Networking Inc.
Run an internet service provider in a tower that keeps growing random new floors. Patch real cables into switches and routers, keep clients online from a command line, and answer to a board that fires you the moment you overspend. A network sim with roguelike runs, disasters to survive, and co-op for when one sysadmin is not enough.
Also in Tycoon and Co-op
95% of 335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Datacenter Simulator
A hands-on, first-person datacenter tycoon. Order hardware, haul the boxes, rack the servers, patch every cable and subnet every switch then keep it all online through power cuts, heatwaves and hardware failures as your empire grows.
Relaxing
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Tunnet
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Minimalist, Relaxing
94% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Hosting Simulator
Build and manage your own data center! Design modular servers, set up realistic networking, and power systems. Manage heat, install OS (Windows/Ubuntu), and fulfill contracts for profit. Technical depth and hardware precision await!
Also in Co-op · Relaxing
50% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Center Station Simulator
You inherit a shopping center in the middle of the desert and build everything it sells yourself. Mine ore, farm crops, run foundries and canning lines in an expandable underground lab, then stock the shop and charge for parking. Slow, grindy, and weirdly hard to put down.
Also in Tycoon · Relaxing
87% of 555 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Upload Labs
Build a tiny computer into a universe-saving machine in Upload Labs, a sci-fi management sim about wiring nodes together to download, process, and upload files faster. Research tech, hack organizations, write code, and raise an AI toward general intelligence, all while tuning flows and bottlenecks. Methodical, satisfying, and easy to lose an evening to.
Relaxing
91% of 8,966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 826Free
IT Specialist Simulator
Take IT support tickets and actually solve them: read logs, check configs, type real terminal commands, and fix networks, servers, printers and permissions. No magic Fix button here, just tools, documentation and your own reasoning, plus a side path into real Python and web code.
Relaxing
74% of 451 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$13.99
The Cable Guy
Your job is to connect all the users from different projects to their servers in the procedurally generated network. In an ever changing office environment you'll have a lot of nifty tools to help you save your job and keep everyone from losing their cool. Are you up for the challenge?
Also in Tycoon · Minimalist, Relaxing
88% of 42 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
ServiceIT: You can do IT
⚡️Fix electronics 📈manage firm 💻challenge the hacker... ServiceIT is a simulation game where you run a full-service IT company to engage in tasks like diagnosing, repairing equipment, network infiltration, programming, server management while an Anonymous hacker keeps sabotaging it all.
Also in Tycoon · Relaxing
56% of 703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$12.99
Server-Admin Simulator
Build your datacenter empire from scratch. Buy hardware, manage contracts, hire staff and outsmart rivals. Face random events, hack the competition and survive the market. Moddable. Multiplayer. No two runs alike.
Also in Co-op
50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hardware Engineers
Hardware Engineers is a simulation game where you have to manage a IT business. In a world where technology expands every day, you will need to learn how to be competitive.
Also in Tycoon · Relaxing
84% of 281 Steam reviews are positive$7.49

Cheaper than Data Center

Uptime: A Cloud Provider Sim

Build a cloud provider from a garage to a hyperscaler - rack the hardware, run every cable, route the traffic, keep customers online.

$7.49

Datacenter Simulator

A hands-on, first-person datacenter tycoon. Order hardware, haul the boxes, rack the servers, patch every cable and subnet every switch then keep it…

$1.99

Tunnet

Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

$5.99

Hosting Simulator

Build and manage your own data center! Design modular servers, set up realistic networking, and power systems.

$4.99

The Cable Guy

Your job is to connect all the users from different projects to their servers in the procedurally generated network.

$7.99

Hardware Engineers

Hardware Engineers is a simulation game where you have to manage a IT business.

$7.49

Data Center Simulator

Night shift at a data center, first person. Tickets come in from the NOC: run the diagnostic, strap in, pull the right part, swap it, close it by…

$4.99

Network Engineer

Build a server empire from a rural farm. Place buildings and generators, rack routers and servers, cable real networks, power everything correctly…

$7.99

SysAdmin Odyssey - Back to the office

A hands-on sysadmin simulator built around realistic computer networks.

$7.99

Smooth Operators

Smooth Operators is an advanced simulation where you take control of a call center company and lead it to financial success!

$0.99

PacketStorm

In PacketStorm, you play an AI developing a new Internet Service Provider.

$7.99

Silicon Sprint: Data Center Incremental

An active incremental about running an AI data center. Sweep your cursor through swarms of data packets to turn them into cash, then pour it into…

$2.39

Hidden gems like Data Center

Shipping Store Simulator 2037

Run a futuristic delivery hub by hand at first, then let droids, vans and drones take over as your business grows.

$19.99

Modulus: Factory Automation

Cut, paint and stamp voxel modules, then belt them across sky islands into production systems that work exactly the way you want.

$24.99

Tower Networking Inc.

Patch a growing tower's network back together, keep the clients online and the board calm, and call in a friend when the floors outgrow one sysadmin.

$19.99

Retro Arcade Shop Simulator

Build and manage your ultimate retro arcade! Buy classic Arcade Machines, Galaxy Pinball, and Gift Claw games, or invest in Cinema 8D, Go-Karts, and…

$9.99

Console Shop Simulator

From trade-in haggles to streaming your shop life, run the little console shop the way you want it.

$8.79

The House Always Wins

Grow a small gambling hall into a packed casino, alone or with friends, while geese, vandals and aliens keep the day interesting.

$12.99

Parcel Simulator

Check parcels, cut open the suspicious ones and let conveyor belts and machines take over the grind.

$17.99

Project P.I.T.T.

A first-person physics job where you automate rubber duck production for a pit that never stops eating.

$9.99

Tunnet

Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

$5.99

Gaming Cafe Simulator

Revive a closed-down gaming café and build it into the ultimate gaming hub!

$13.99

Upload Labs

Route files through a growing network of nodes, then tune every bottleneck until the whole machine hums.

Free

Center Station Simulator

You inherit a shopping center in the middle of the desert and build everything it sells yourself.

$19.99

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