Games like Data Trader
If Data Trader is your kind of game, the closest matches are VETO, ByteBurst: Hacking Simulator and Hacknet — 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 Data Trader: Data Trader is a cyberpunk strategy game where information has become the world's most valuable resource. Buy archives, trade classified data, command agents, and uncover the truth about who you really were.
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Steam players who put hours into Data Trader 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.
VETO
WHY THIS
Top pick for Data Trader fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Data Trader.
Synthesize substances, run your clandestine lab, and move merchandise on the streets from a basement. You have 15 weeks to pay off a $75,000 debt to the Debt Collector. Pay your daily expenses or suffer severe consequences. The Debt Collector will not accept excuses.
ByteBurst: Hacking Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Data Trader fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Data Trader.
Welcome to the cutting edge of virtual mayhem in "ByteBurst" – the ultimate hacker's playground. Immerse yourself in a thrilling journey through the digital realm, where your skills will be pushed to the limit, and every line of code is a potential weapon.
Hacknet
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Data Trader fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Data Trader.
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.
ZeroPrompt
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Data Trader fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Data Trader.
Every NPC in this game runs on a local LLM. Ask them anything. The internet is dying. You're a internet moderator. Filter out AI impostors from humanity's last clean network. Use investigation tools to detect deception. Every verdict shapes the internet.
Cyber Manhunt
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Data Trader fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Data Trader.
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Data Trader fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Data Trader.
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
Plutocracy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Data Trader fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Data Trader.
The business simulator Plutocracy gives you the chance to become wealthy and powerful to take control over the world. Where policy, laws, officials and people are only the chess pieces how do you play your game?
Keyword: A Spider's Thread
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Data Trader fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Data Trader.
Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.
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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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Data Trader.
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 Data Trader.
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 Data Trader.
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 Data Trader.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Data Trader.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Data Trader.
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 Data Trader
- What games are most similar to Data Trader?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Data Trader are VETO, ByteBurst: Hacking Simulator, Hacknet.
- Who developed Data Trader?
- Data Trader was developed by Kinetic Sparks.
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 Trader.
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