Games like Data Center
If Data Center is your kind of game, the closest matches are SysAdmin Odyssey - Back to the office, Upload Labs and F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Data Center: Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.
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Steam players who put hours into Data Center 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.
SysAdmin Odyssey - Back to the office
WHY THIS
Top pick for Data Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
The SysAdmin simulator is a sandbox in which you can try on the role of a system administrator. Every new game day you will face different tasks and problems in the office where you work.
Upload Labs
WHY THIS
Shares upgrade system, resource management, simulation and a relaxing mood with Data Center.
Second-strongest match for Data Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Data Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory is a relaxed automation sim where you build at your own pace. Design complex lines with the intuitive Link System and Relays. Unlock new tech via the Tech Tree, boost production with your clicks, and manufacture everything from iron to sushi in your ultimate factory!
Terra revive
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Data Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
A simulation of rebuilding a planet after it has been almost completely destroyed. Your task is to make the earth fit for human life again. Survive, build and explore!
Idle AI Factory
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Data Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
Dive into the world of machine learning! Node Factory is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural networks. Manage your economy, optimize your grid, and automate your way to a multi-Centillion dollar tech empire.
Food Processing Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management, simulation and a cozy mood with Data Center.
Ranked #6 for Data Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.
The Farmer Was Replaced
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Data Center.
Ranked #7 for Data Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Data Center.
Ranked #8 for Data Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrency. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices. Hire skilled employees and assign tasks. Use cash from your mega farms to research new technologies and reach the goal of each scenario.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Data Center at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Data Center on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Data Center on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Data Center on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Data Center on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Data Center on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
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?
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Data Center on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
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.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Data Center on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Data Center on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
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.
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Data Center.
『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.
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 Simulation with Data Center.
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 Data Center.
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.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about Data Center
- Does Data Center run on Steam Deck?
- Data Center 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 Data Center cost?
- Data Center is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Data Center?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Data Center are SysAdmin Odyssey - Back to the office, Upload Labs, F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory.
- Who developed Data Center?
- Data Center was developed by Waseku.
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 Data Center.
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