Games like Netshell
If Netshell is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blackdoor, Hacknet and Void Future: Hacking Protocol — 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 Netshell: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Netshell 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.
Blackdoor
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Top pick for Netshell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts. Rewrite them. Hack servers by writing actual code in a custom scripting language - probe ports, crack passwords, steal data, and get out before the trace completes. Better code = better hacker.
Hacknet
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Netshell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
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.
Void Future: Hacking Protocol
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Netshell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
In Void Future: Hacking Protocol, you play as a hacker in a cyberpunk world ruled by corporations. Hack, solve puzzles, and uncover a global conspiracy. Hunted by a system that never sleeps, you’ll need to stay hidden, outsmart surveillance, and fight to survive.
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Netshell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
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.
Hacker Simulator
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Ranked #5 for Netshell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
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.
Anonymous Hacker Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Netshell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
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.
Vaudeville
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Ranked #7 for Netshell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
Vaudeville is an experimental whodunit game based on the latest AI technologies to generate dialogues in real time. This tale of murder, suspense and absurdity unfolds as you play, and you are the protagonist.
Grey Hack
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Ranked #8 for Netshell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
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.
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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 Netshell.
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 Netshell.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Netshell.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Netshell.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Netshell.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Netshell.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Netshell
- What games are most similar to Netshell?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Netshell are Blackdoor, Hacknet, Void Future: Hacking Protocol.
- Who developed Netshell?
- Netshell was developed by Beyond Logic Labs.
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 Netshell.
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