Games like System Clues
If System Clues is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hacker The Dark Shadow, Zero Trust and Netshell — 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 System Clues: You pick up a laptop on the roadside. Boot it, log in, read emails, scroll chat logs — and NexusCore scandals surface: financial fraud, employee surveillance, an AI performance system. Will you stay a bystander, dig in, or gather evidence yourself? Every keystroke reshapes the fate of the world.
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Steam players who put hours into System Clues 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.
Hacker The Dark Shadow
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Top pick for System Clues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with System Clues.
Become a young programmer diving into the dangerous world of cybercrime. When the elite hacking collective Dark Shadows challenges you with a series of ruthless trials, you must push your genius to the limit. Will you prove your worth or become another digital casualty?
Zero Trust
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Second-strongest match for System Clues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with System Clues.
An action hacking simulator set in a fully simulated world. Choose your path, craft your own tools, exploit vulnerabilities, and build your reputation. Every company, hacker, and law enforcement agency operates independently — nothing happens by chance. Every playthrough is unique.
Netshell
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Third-strongest match for System Clues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with System Clues.
A 90s-themed hacking simulation with real shell commands and authentic techniques, set inside a UNIX-style operating system from 1997 with accurately recreated applications. Scan ports, exploit vulnerabilities, evade traces, join the underground, and live the Wild West era of the early internet.
Agents! Please?
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Ranked #4 for System Clues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with System Clues.
The AI writes all the code. Confidently. Wrong. You are the last human reviewer. Interrogate the swarm, run the code, catch the lie. Fix it, or ship it anyway. Next comes a problem, a recall, a funeral, or the end of the world. Plays fully on a controller, and the code is real when you want it.
Anonymous Hacker Simulator: Prologue
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Ranked #5 for System Clues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with System Clues.
Step into the shoes of a skilled Anonymous hacker and embark on a mission to unveil the truth hidden behind a sinister organization's plans to monitor civilian data and enforce mass surveillance.
Anonymous Hacker Simulator
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Ranked #6 for System Clues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with System Clues.
Step into the shoes of a skilled Anonymous hacker and embark on a mission to unveil the truth hidden behind a sinister organization's plans to monitor civilian data and enforce mass surveillance.
Hardwork Simulator
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Ranked #7 for System Clues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with System Clues.
A game about fooling others! (6th place Innovation Category Ludum Dare #49 Compo)
Hacknet
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Ranked #8 for System Clues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with System Clues.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with System Clues.
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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 System Clues.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with System Clues.
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Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with System Clues.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with System Clues.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with System Clues.
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93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with System Clues.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with System Clues.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Frequently asked about System Clues
- What games are most similar to System Clues?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside System Clues are Hacker The Dark Shadow, Zero Trust, Netshell.
- Who developed System Clues?
- System Clues was developed by CipherStudios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on System Clues.
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