Nodebuster
Aim at drifting shapes, harvest bits, buy upgrades, and let your cursor bloom into fireworks.
97% of 13,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$2.99
Games like Nodes
Loved how minimalist and replayable Nodes can get? You might settle into these games easily.
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.
Replayable, Relaxing
91% of 8,966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 826FreeNode Factory
Dive into the world of machine learning! Node Factory is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural networks. Manage your economy, optimize your grid, and automate your way to a multi-Centillion dollar tech empire.
Minimalist, Relaxing
33% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Closed 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 incremental idler. Purchase powerful upgrades, unlock permanent skills, and push your system to its absolute limits!
Minimalist, Replayable, Relaxing
57% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Tunnet
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Minimalist, Replayable, Relaxing
94% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Nodebuster
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and, eventually, destroying reality. Aim at drifting shapes, harvest them for bits, spend them on upgrades, and watch your little cursor turn into a fireworks display. It runs about four hours, sounds lovely, and asks very little of you: a perfect game to half-watch while doing something else.
Minimalist, Replayable, Relaxing
97% of 13,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$2.99Tower 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.
Replayable
95% of 335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99Hack Faster
Hack Faster is a story-driven incremental hacking simulator. Scan networks, breach layered defenses, extract valuable files, and erase your traces before lockdown. Push your tools into Overclock, sell what you steal, and upgrade your rig.
Minimalist, Replayable
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Net.Attack() - Code or Die!
CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms. Your brain power determines your firepower across 190+ programming nodes. Debug your failures. Optimize your code. Complete the heist. HACK THE PLANET!
Replayable
80% of 514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.99Nightwire
Wire up a data-theft rig, launder stolen bytes on a live black market, and climb the netrunner underworld one burned identity at a time — until a ghost of who you used to be logs on, learns how you fight, and comes for the only chair that fits one of you.
Replayable
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99Network Notation
You are a lost artificial intelligence adrift on the internet. Infiltrate abstract computer networks filled with defensive complications to expand your world. Improve your capabilities to overcome ever greater challenges. Learn about the state of the world and what you were made for.
Minimalist, Replayable
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Data 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.
Minimalist, Relaxing
76% of 1,011 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57$8.99Hackshot
The most deviously STYLISH Strategy game ever ... Shoot to Hack; ... Optimize and Combo to rise; ... as a HACKER
Minimalist, Replayable
92% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Cheaper than Nodes
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…
57% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Idle Hacker
IdleHacker is an idler/incremental game where you hack the world.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
WinHack 95
Build a malware empire from a 90s PC. Code viruses, automate systems, take darknet contracts and also deploy them.
75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Nooodles: Brutalism Edition
A laid-back idle network-building game. Lay connections, build nodes.
$3.99
Network Nodes
Connect glowing nodes in this mesmerizing neon puzzle game. Design perfect networks across 30+ challenging levels with increasing complexity.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Elegorithm
Hack and optimize inefficient elevators in Elegorithm, a Sci-Fi simulation.
80% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hackers: The Revolution Begins
Welcome back to 2009. Experience a ground-up remake of the cult-classic hacking sim.
$2.99
Idle Protocol
Idle Protocol is a minimalist sci-fi tower defense and incremental game.
20% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
DEFRAG
DEFRAG turns system maintenance into a bullet hell: you steer a little cube through corrupted sectors, blast viruses, and spend what you salvage on…
93% of 571 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$2.99
Hacker life simulator
Take a team of hackers under your strict guidance and become known to the whole world.
90% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hidden gems like Nodes
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.
95% of 335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Tunnet
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
94% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Net.Attack() - Code or Die!
CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms.
80% of 514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.99
Welcome to the Game III
Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…
76% of 680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Data Center
Buy racks, mount the hardware and wire your own network, then watch the traffic find its way through.
76% of 1,011 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57$8.99
Upload Labs
Route files through a growing network of nodes, then tune every bottleneck until the whole machine hums.
91% of 8,966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 826Free
Nodebuster
Aim at drifting shapes, harvest bits, buy upgrades, and let your cursor bloom into fireworks.
97% of 13,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$2.99
DROP - System Breach
Welcome to DROP, a fast-paced action-strategy hacking simulator. Ready to hack your way to fame and fortune while avoiding getting caught?
85% of 180 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hacker Simulator
Take freelance hacking contracts, run commands in a working terminal and upgrade your rig between jobs.
74% of 1,234 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Grey Hack
Work a live terminal in a shared online world: scan machines, write your own exploits and build a name for yourself.
90% of 1,819 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48$15.99
Cyber Attack
Take control of an elite global team of hackers, intercepting communications between corporations, governments, and criminals all around the world.
69% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
868-HACK
You are a computer hacker. You steal precious data while the world sleeps.
90% of 123 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.65
Newest games like Nodes
Dead Sector
Design servers part by part, wire your floor, and keep clients online as the racks grow from one room to a hyperscale operation.
87% of 45 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 236
CYBERLIFE
CYBERLIFE is a complex, terminal-based multiplayer hacking game set in a persistent, shared world.
80% of 5 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Hack Protocol
Hack Protocol is a multiplayer hacking sim where you build software, breach servers, steal data, upgrade your hardware, and cover your tracks.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$8.09
Project RedTeam: Contract Offensive
A fast paced hacking roguelite built on real cybersecurity tradecraft.
100% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
smoke.exe
One cigarette is all the time you get to break in. Lay out nodes, wire them into an auto-hacking routine, then light it and let it run.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Elegorithm
Hack and optimize inefficient elevators in Elegorithm, a Sci-Fi simulation.
80% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Blackwire
Blackwire is a single-player hacking simulation in the spirit of the classics.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Blackdoor
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to rewrite them.
86% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Quantum Breach
A terminal-based hacking game where you play as a broke hacker trying to hack a bank and get rich.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
NET.CRAWL
NET.CRAWL is a grid-building roguelike about a White Rabbit trapped in an unfriendly cyberspace.
96% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Pulslink
In the war against the Skynet, humanity was pushed to the brink. Until flesh and weapons were fused as the ultimate countermeasure.
75% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Project: AFTERSHOCK
Project: AFTERSHOCK is a fast-paced arcade hacking roguelite set in a dystopian future.
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$4.99