Games like Network Engineer

Want something that feels relaxing the way Network Engineer does? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

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 Co-op
95% of 335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Data Center
Build a data center from bare floors: buy racks, mount servers and switches, and run every Ethernet cable by hand. Customer traffic flows through your network as colored packets you can watch, so bottlenecks and clean throughput are visible at a glance. A calm, hands-on builder where every cable matters.
Also in Co-op · Relaxing
76% of 1,011 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57$8.99
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
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.
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91% of 70 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$7.49
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
Dead Sector
Run your own data center from one empty room to a hyperscale operation. Design every server part by part, wire power and networks across your floor, sign clients and keep them online while drives die and circuits strain. A calm, detailed simulation for anyone who ever wanted to rack a server just because they could.
87% of 45 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 236
Cloud Server Simulator
Design and expand your own data center. Manage clients. Negotiate offers. Setup and configure servers. Keep track of server maintenance and monitor their conditions. Every server counts in this strategic simulator of the digital backbone of our world.
25% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Tunnet
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Relaxing
94% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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?
Relaxing
88% of 42 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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.
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50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Traceroute
A network-building simulation across the cities of a nation. Lay routers and cables to design your network, balancing bandwidth and latency on a limited budget. Survive sudden traffic surges and DDoS attacks as you connect city after city, learning real networking concepts as you play.
$1.99
COLD AISLE: Data Center Tycoon
Build your own data center business from an empty industrial hall. Order hardware, install servers and GPUs, connect power and networking, manage cooling and capacity, and grow from your first rack into a market-leading company.
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$11.99

Cheaper than Network Engineer

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

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

Hosting Simulator

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

$4.99

Tunnet

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

$5.99

Traceroute

A network-building simulation across the cities of a nation.

$1.99

Nodes

Build the network. The network is the weapon. Wire a node-based hacker rig, balance power, heat and bandwidth, and breach 21 escalating targets…

$4.19

Hardware Engineers

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

$7.49

Internet Entrepreneurship Simulator

In the context of the first Internet wave sweeping the world, can the player play the role of an entrepreneur who has failed many times but never…

$3.39

Closed Circuit: Recursive Idle

Optimize your loop. Break every limit. Cut, connect, and duplicate complex nodes to build an ever-expanding automated network in this chill…

$3.99

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

Blueprint Tycoon

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

$2.99

Node Factory

Dive into the world of machine learning! Node Factory is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural…

$4.99

Hidden gems like Network Engineer

Farm Factory Simulator

Plant crops, automate the work with conveyor belts, and sell the harvest in your own farm shop.

$9.74

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

Tunnet

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

$5.99

Data Center

Buy racks, mount the hardware and wire your own network, then watch the traffic find its way through.

$8.99

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

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…

$13.99

Sim Companies

Run a firm of farms, factories and stores, and outsmart thousands of real traders whose deals set the market.

Free

Internet Cafe Evolution

Start with a few humming PCs in the 90s and grow them into a cafe empire.

$14.99

Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator

Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrency. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices.

$11.99

Hardware Engineers

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

$7.49

Startup Company

Hire a team, ship features and grow a small website into a business that rivals the giants, all at your own pace.

$12.99

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