Games like Uplink
If Uplink is your kind of game, the closest matches are Remain At Your Desk, HackMeNow and NET.CRAWL — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its consequences feel permanent, mods modernize the experience and atmospheric. 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 →Developed by Introversion Software in 2006, Uplink is a strategy and indie title priced at $11.99 USD. Players take on the role of freelance hackers navigating risky corporate contracts across a cyberpunk digital landscape. The simulation centers on GUI-based hacking mechanics where players infiltrate systems, execute missions, manage logs, and upgrade hardware while tracking consequences. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric, retro experience that captures 90s movie hacking tension, with players finding satisfaction when outsmarting federal agents. Mods available through the Steam Workshop continuously refresh the experience, and the title runs in playable condition on Steam Deck. The game offers a challenging, medium-length solo session for approximately $12, with an overwhelmingly positive reception from over 1,300 Steam reviewers.
About Uplink: Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
Players who liked Uplink also play
Steam players who put hours into Uplink 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.
Remain At Your Desk
WHY THIS
Top pick for Uplink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Uplink.
Incremental hacker about faking productivity while stealing from your employer. Sell intel for credits or keep it and raise suspicion. One bad audit and you’re back to Intern.
HackMeNow
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Uplink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
A terminal-style hacking puzzle game where every command matters. Investigate logs, decode secrets, avoid traps, and uncover the rogue system watching from behind the screen.
NET.CRAWL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Uplink.
Third-strongest match for Uplink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
NET.CRAWL is a grid-building roguelike about a White Rabbit trapped in an unfriendly cyberspace. Dive deep into a bizarre digital world where levels are built with the nodes you drafted. Short runs, satisfying combos, dozens of unique bosses, and a ton of replayability.
GRID_HACKER
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Uplink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Uplink.
Guide your signal to the target while hacking into the grid puzzle network. Craft your own challenges in the level editor to share with friends.
Silent Signals
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Uplink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Uplink.
Silent Signals is a screen-based detective game where you solve dark cyber mysteries as an ethical hacker. Dive into isolated systems, decrypt secrets, and uncover the truth.
Quadrilateral Cowboy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Uplink.
Ranked #6 for Uplink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Uplink.
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
Hacknet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Uplink.
Ranked #7 for Uplink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Uplink.
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
Dark Web: Vigilante
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Uplink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
You are Vigilantus, a genius hacker and former member of Runyan. Immerse yourself in a world run by corrupt corporations, politicians, and greedy pharmaceutical companies. Uncover dark political secrets. Battle systemic injustice. Redistribute wealth to the poor. Destroy entire corporations.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Uplink at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Uplink on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Uplink.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Uplink on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Uplink.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Uplink on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Uplink on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Uplink on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Uplink.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Uplink on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Uplink.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Uplink on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Uplink.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Uplink on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Uplink.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Uplink.
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 with Uplink.
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 with Uplink.
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 Uplink.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Uplink.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Uplink.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from Introversion Software
Other recommendable Steam games by Introversion Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind Uplink. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
DEFCON
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Uplink.
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind Uplink. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
Scanner Sombre
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Uplink.
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind Uplink. Shares Indie with Uplink.
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
The Last Starship
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Uplink.
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind Uplink. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Darwinia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Uplink.
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind Uplink. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.
Multiwinia
WHY THIS
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind Uplink. Shares Indie with Uplink.
Multiwinia is a fast-paced, retro-inspired RTS that blends arcade action with strategic depth. Command armies of Multiwinians in multiplayer battles across vibrant, nostalgic environments. With simple controls and dynamic gameplay, it offers endless fun and challenge for players of all skill levels.
DEFCON VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind Uplink. Shares Strategy and Indie with Uplink.
DEFCON VR allows you to spectate DEFCON games in the comfort of your own virtual War Room. Join others and marvel at total global annihilation as nuclear missiles arc over the globe on their path to destruction. Watch Armageddon unfold as everybody dies….
Frequently asked about Uplink
- Does Uplink run on Steam Deck?
- Uplink is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Uplink cost?
- Uplink is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Uplink?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Uplink are Remain At Your Desk, HackMeNow, NET.CRAWL.
- Who developed Uplink?
- Uplink was developed by Introversion Software.
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