Games like The Lonely Hacker
If The Lonely Hacker is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shane's Trains, Gorgeous and Fantastic Battle and Junkcity Factory Simulator — 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.
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Shane's Trains
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Lonely Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Lonely Hacker.
Build and manage your own railway empire. Buy trains, create services, expand the network, and grow from a single branch line. Map your own routes, or play across the real UK rail network and beyond.
Gorgeous and Fantastic Battle
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Lonely Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lonely Hacker.
The game describes a small war of the three camps. At the beginning, you can choose a human, robot, or alien to start your journey. You can play this game with the overhead view or third person view.
Junkcity Factory Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Lonely Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lonely Hacker.
Collect scraps, manage a factory with 29 machines, 33 workers, and nearly 300 items, and sell your products in Junkcity Store. Optimize efficiency and dominate the market in this dynamic simulation game!
Tiny Connections
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Lonely Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lonely Hacker.
Embark on a journey, where each puzzle takes you to a new corner of the globe. Your mission is to connect homes to essential services like electricity & water, battling against time to ensure communities flourish!
Crafting Idle Clicker
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Lonely Hacker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lonely Hacker.
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Lonely Hacker at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Lonely Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lonely Hacker.
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 ~50% under The Lonely Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Lonely Hacker.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Lonely Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lonely Hacker.
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 ~50% under The Lonely Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Lonely Hacker.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Lonely Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lonely Hacker.
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 ~50% under The Lonely Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Lonely Hacker.
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 ~70% under The Lonely Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lonely Hacker.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Lonely Hacker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Lonely Hacker.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lonely Hacker.
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?
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Lonely Hacker.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lonely Hacker.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Lonely Hacker.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lonely Hacker.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lonely Hacker.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Lonely Hacker.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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Frequently asked about The Lonely Hacker
- How much does The Lonely Hacker cost?
- The Lonely Hacker is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Lonely Hacker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Lonely Hacker are Shane's Trains, Gorgeous and Fantastic Battle, Junkcity Factory Simulator.
- Who developed The Lonely Hacker?
- The Lonely Hacker was developed by The Lonely Developer.
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