Games like PacketStorm
If PacketStorm is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Game About Creating The Universe, Nodebuster and CompactO - Idle Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its geography knowledge enhances gameplay, atmospheric and chill. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About PacketStorm: In PacketStorm, you play an AI developing a new Internet Service Provider. Each game takes place over a few second of game-time, but potentially many hours of realtime. Buy up routers, upgrade cable networks and deal with packet jams as you earn money to research new and better upgrades.
Players who liked PacketStorm also play
Steam players who put hours into PacketStorm also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
A Game About Creating The Universe
WHY THIS
Top pick for PacketStorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with PacketStorm.
An idler game where you get to build up the universe from scratch. You are a part of an advanced space civilization that builds universes.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with PacketStorm.
Second-strongest match for PacketStorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
CompactO - Idle Game
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with PacketStorm.
Third-strongest match for PacketStorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
CompactO is an addicting idle game where you create colorful squares on a plane. Dominate the 3D Realm and infuse your planes into complex shapes to buy tons of upgrades!
Loot Loop
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with PacketStorm.
Ranked #4 for PacketStorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Build a party of heroes and send them into dungeons in this short incremental RPG. Fight monsters, collect loot, and unlock upgrades. Fast runs, deep skill tree, zero stress.
Feudal Fantasy Incremental
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with PacketStorm.
Ranked #5 for PacketStorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings and recruiting the wisdom of fantasy races.
Max Manos
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with PacketStorm.
Ranked #6 for PacketStorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with PacketStorm.
Max Manos is an incremental destruction game where you play as a powerful hand, known as Max Manos, eliminating shapes. Chain explosive reactions, collect shards, and upgrade your abilities to destroy shapes even faster.
Gamblers Table
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with PacketStorm.
Ranked #7 for PacketStorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...
Piñata Go Boom
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for PacketStorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
A small incremental game about smashing piñatas, collecting toys, and climbing the corporate ladder as you unlock a vast upgrade tree.
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Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with PacketStorm.
Reviewers of PacketStorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.
Pandemic: The Board Game
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with PacketStorm.
Reviewers of PacketStorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with PacketStorm.
Humanity is on the brink of extinction. As members of an elite disease control team, you’re the only thing standing in the way of the four deadly diseases spreading across the world.
Pandemic Panic!
WHY THIS
Reviewers of PacketStorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with PacketStorm.
We're in lockdown and you're our only hope! Grab your blaster, ready the cure and prepare to face the virus head on in this frantic, wacky and wild hospital. Don't be fooled, this is a task for only the best out there. Think you have what it takes?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PacketStorm at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under PacketStorm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PacketStorm.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under PacketStorm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with PacketStorm.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under PacketStorm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PacketStorm.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under PacketStorm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with PacketStorm.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under PacketStorm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PacketStorm.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under PacketStorm on Steam right now. Shares Casual with PacketStorm.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under PacketStorm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PacketStorm.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PacketStorm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PacketStorm.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PacketStorm.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with PacketStorm.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with PacketStorm.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PacketStorm.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with PacketStorm.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with PacketStorm.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from ProjectorGames
Other recommendable Steam games by ProjectorGames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind PacketStorm. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Ampu-Tea
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with PacketStorm.
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind PacketStorm. Shares Indie and Simulation with PacketStorm.
The surgeon-simulator inspired Tea-making game is now available on Steam! Using the latest KS-001 Robo-Arm, you must practise making various types of tea.
Gnomancer
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind PacketStorm. Shares Indie and Casual with PacketStorm.
DjArcas' Twin Stick Shooter for up to 4 players - Pikmin meets Gauntlet. Advance your character, get epic loot, raise a gnome army!
Steam Heroes
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind PacketStorm. Shares Indie and Casual with PacketStorm.
Help three brave adventurers on their quest to stop the diabolical Baron Von Smog’s plot to conquer Steam Land. However, there is an army of evil minions that stand in your way. Challenge yourself in this new puzzle strategy game; includes 12 action-packed stages, a full soundtrack, competitive online play, all in stunning 720p HD...
ADAPTR
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind PacketStorm. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Build physics-based vehicles from a range of modular blocks, solve puzzles to move down from orbit, across the Earth's surface and deep into the lost labs. Locate missing robots, explore secret areas and unlock the secrets of a long-lost civilisation.
Storm Area 51: September 20th 2019
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind PacketStorm. Shares Strategy and Simulation with PacketStorm.
Survive the epic raid on Area 51 and rescue the aliens from the military compound using classic stealth mechanics and cover.
FortressCraft : Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind PacketStorm. Shares Indie and Casual with PacketStorm.
FortressCraft : Chapter 1 Anniversary Edition is the PC-update to the world's first and best Creative-focussed Voxel block builder.
Mothership Forever
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind PacketStorm. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Fight against an ever-evolving threat in this skill-based twinstick shooter 14 years in the making.
Frequently asked about PacketStorm
- How much does PacketStorm cost?
- PacketStorm is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to PacketStorm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PacketStorm are A Game About Creating The Universe, Nodebuster, CompactO - Idle Game.
- Who developed PacketStorm?
- PacketStorm was developed by ProjectorGames.
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