Games like EchoLink: Recursion
If EchoLink: Recursion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Remain At Your Desk, Factory Time and Hacker Cats — 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 EchoLink: Recursion: EchoLink: Recursion is an active incremental hacking simulation spanning 1990s dial-up to 2150s megacities. Hack through time by infiltrating networks, building proxy chains, and automating routines. Every reset reboots you with exponential upgrades. Grow a skill tree and rewrite history.
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Remain At Your Desk
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Top pick for EchoLink: Recursion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EchoLink: Recursion.
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.
Factory Time
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Second-strongest match for EchoLink: Recursion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
A factory automation incremental game at the end of the universe. Start crafting by hand, automate production, and build the Chronoforge to escape.
Hacker Cats
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for EchoLink: Recursion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with EchoLink: Recursion.
Become the manager of the cutest hacker organization on the Internet. Hacker Cats is an idler game about hacking and cats. Hack servers, download data, sell it on the dark net and buy new upgrades for hacking.
ECHIDNA
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for EchoLink: Recursion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
A dead god drifts in the dark. Build a salvage fleet that carves it apart cell by cell, and watch a colossal carcass melt into a storm of flying debris and climbing numbers. Strip it to the bone then evolve and start again on something bigger.
Mining and Dwarves
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Ranked #5 for EchoLink: Recursion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EchoLink: Recursion.
An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.
Man in the Mocha
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Ranked #6 for EchoLink: Recursion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
An active incremental game where you own a coffee shop, but your hidden agenda is to hack the customers who connect to your WiFi. Buy upgrades and grow your business!
Singularity Echoes
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Ranked #7 for EchoLink: Recursion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.
Return to Planet Zoveka
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for EchoLink: Recursion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
Return to Planet Zoveka is an incremental, physics-driven space-mining and resource-management game. Herd and merge cosmic dust, upgrade a family mining ship, build automation in space, and turn your growing operation into visible healing for a damaged homeworld.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below EchoLink: Recursion at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~84% under EchoLink: Recursion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under EchoLink: Recursion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with EchoLink: Recursion.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under EchoLink: Recursion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under EchoLink: Recursion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with EchoLink: Recursion.
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 ~76% under EchoLink: Recursion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~84% under EchoLink: Recursion on Steam right now. Shares Casual with EchoLink: Recursion.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under EchoLink: Recursion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under EchoLink: Recursion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
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 and Simulation with EchoLink: Recursion.
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 and Simulation with EchoLink: Recursion.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with EchoLink: Recursion.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with EchoLink: Recursion.
‘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 and Simulation with EchoLink: Recursion.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with EchoLink: Recursion.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with EchoLink: Recursion.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about EchoLink: Recursion
- How much does EchoLink: Recursion cost?
- EchoLink: Recursion is listed on Steam at 6.29 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to EchoLink: Recursion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside EchoLink: Recursion are Remain At Your Desk, Factory Time, Hacker Cats.
- Who developed EchoLink: Recursion?
- EchoLink: Recursion was developed by Detonation Zone Interactive.
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