Games like Hacker's Restart
If Hacker's Restart is your kind of game, the closest matches are TACOS - The Adventurous Couple's Original Story Season 1, Real Girl VR and Knowledge, or know Lady — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Hacker's Restart: Hacker’s Restart is an adult visual novel featuring multiple endings. Move into a new city to escape from your problems with the law, pursue relationships and one-night stands, and find a way to clear your name. And don’t forget: your choices matter.
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TACOS - The Adventurous Couple's Original Story Season 1
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Top pick for Hacker's Restart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
Explore a choice-driven adult visual novel where you shape a couple’s evolving relationship. Choose between NTR, NTS, and open relationship paths, and discover how far curiosity can take you.
Real Girl VR
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Second-strongest match for Hacker's Restart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
Real Girl VR is a sex simulator. With 26 highly detailed and fully naked girls. Realistic and beautiful, we are bringing the best experience in VR you will have so far! Are you ready for the best VR experience of your life?Awesome locations to experience virtual sex with Real Girl VR's girls.
Knowledge, or know Lady
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hacker's Restart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
You, the "sole male student" at a women's university, are about to embark on a sweet and laughter-filled campus love journey from a first-person perspective! How will you resist the temptations of the beauties and create your own legend in this girls' school?
撩妹模拟器：渣男的秘密
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Ranked #4 for Hacker's Restart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
During the pursuit of six beautiful women, you will learn the underlying logic and basic principles of love, chat skills, dating skills, relationship upgrade skills, psychological effects of love, and building framework personality attraction.
Westview Academy - Season 1
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Ranked #5 for Hacker's Restart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
A talented young man joins Westview Academy, one of the nation's best schools. At Westview Academy, he'll make tough decisions and have unique experiences surrounded by many new friends and different environments. How will your story go?
Shale Hill Secrets
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Ranked #6 for Hacker's Restart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
In this story-focused mature visual novel by Love-Joint, you suddenly gain the power to peer into people’s hidden lives. Seduce your classmates in beautiful rendered 3D art. Unravel a conspiracy, fall in love, or use your power for yourself.
Bare Witness
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Ranked #7 for Hacker's Restart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
Bare Witness is an adult visual novel set at the fictional Plattsburgh College of the Arts in New York. With lots of potential branching paths and 11 primary endings, you may find yourself returning again and again to pursue one or more of the six love interests that catch your eye.
My Pleasure - Season 1
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hacker's Restart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
My Pleasure is a choice-driven adult Visual Novel, full of hot women, mystery, and sex! This VN is packed with high-quality graphics, a rich story, humor, and hot close-up animations!
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POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Hacker's Restart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Hacker's Restart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
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
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Priced ~70% under Hacker's Restart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Hacker's Restart on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Hacker's Restart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Hacker's Restart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Hacker's Restart on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under Hacker's Restart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hacker's Restart.
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 Hacker's Restart.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hacker's Restart.
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.
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Frequently asked about Hacker's Restart
- Is Hacker's Restart verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hacker's Restart is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Hacker's Restart cost?
- Hacker's Restart is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hacker's Restart?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hacker's Restart are TACOS - The Adventurous Couple's Original Story Season 1, Real Girl VR, Knowledge, or know Lady.
- Who developed Hacker's Restart?
- Hacker's Restart was developed by Jeheh.
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