Games like NODE: PROTOCOL
If NODE: PROTOCOL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loot List: Thief Sim, Terminal Insanity: CodeJacker and ROOTLINE — 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 NODE: PROTOCOL: A full immersive hacking sim based on real exploits and C2 tools. Choose missions or pure free-roam. The world adapts to your every move and strikes back. Accept contracts. Hack servers. Earn BTC. Upgrade your gear and avoid getting traced. Play solo or in Co-op / CTF with your friends.
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Loot List: Thief Sim
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Top pick for NODE: PROTOCOL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with NODE: PROTOCOL.
Rise from pauper to master thief - grab the loot list and get to work, whether it’s a roadside diner or a federal vault: slip past security and make fools of everyone, or unleash chaos and blow the place apart. Fence the haul to upgrade the hideout, gear up, and build your criminal empire.
Terminal Insanity: CodeJacker
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Second-strongest match for NODE: PROTOCOL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NODE: PROTOCOL.
Terminal Insanity: CodeJacker is a competitive coding game featuring 4 distinct game modes. In one, you play as an Attacker trying to corrupt source code, or as a Defender, making sure that the program still executes without leaks or crashes. C, Python, and JavaScript are supported, with more coming
ROOTLINE
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Third-strongest match for NODE: PROTOCOL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with NODE: PROTOCOL.
ROOTLINE is a multiplayer hacking and systems simulation where every machine, network, program, file and exploit exists inside a massively multiplayer persistent shared world.
Grey Hack
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Ranked #4 for NODE: PROTOCOL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with NODE: PROTOCOL.
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
Hacknet
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Ranked #5 for NODE: PROTOCOL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with NODE: PROTOCOL.
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.
Hacker Simulator
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Ranked #6 for NODE: PROTOCOL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with NODE: PROTOCOL.
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
Quadrilateral Cowboy
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Ranked #7 for NODE: PROTOCOL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with NODE: PROTOCOL.
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
Duskers
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Ranked #8 for NODE: PROTOCOL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NODE: PROTOCOL.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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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 NODE: PROTOCOL.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with NODE: PROTOCOL.
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with NODE: PROTOCOL.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with NODE: PROTOCOL.
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!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Early Access with NODE: PROTOCOL.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with NODE: PROTOCOL.
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.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with NODE: PROTOCOL.
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 NODE: PROTOCOL
- Does NODE: PROTOCOL have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — NODE: PROTOCOL supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to NODE: PROTOCOL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NODE: PROTOCOL are Loot List: Thief Sim, Terminal Insanity: CodeJacker, ROOTLINE.
- Who developed NODE: PROTOCOL?
- NODE: PROTOCOL was developed by Device.
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