Games like Hacker Cats
If Hacker Cats is your kind of game, the closest matches are EchoLink: Recursion, quietd and Catio Simulator — 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 Hacker Cats: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Hacker Cats 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.
EchoLink: Recursion
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Top pick for Hacker Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Hacker Cats.
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.
quietd
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hacker Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hacker Cats.
quietd is a no-input game you simply watch. A terminal hacks on its own across all 50 stages while you idle by. No commands, no clicks, no win, no score, no game over. Just chill, ambient cyberpunk: silent monospace text drifting in a corner of your desktop. Glance over and let it run.
Catio Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hacker Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Hacker Cats.
Catio Simulator is a casual incremental game in which you decorate a catio to attract cats. Pet your cats to get them ready for adoption, collect adoption fees, and upgrade your catio and petting ability!
MeowMiner
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Ranked #4 for Hacker Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Hacker Cats.
Dive into the charming clicker world with an adorable cat miner! Smash rocks, mine gold, unlock new pickaxes and endless depths!
Bytecollector
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Ranked #5 for Hacker Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Hacker Cats.
Bytecollector is a short, incremental game where you draw loops to collect bytes. Spend them on a skill tree with over 40 upgrades to unlock new mechanics.
Brainrotting
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Ranked #6 for Hacker Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Hacker Cats.
Brainrotting is a "scroller" desktop simulator about doomscrolling or solving minigames, getting upgrades and eventually automating your dopamine generation.
Boba Simulator : Idle Shop Management
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Ranked #7 for Hacker Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Hacker Cats.
Boba Tea shop simulator. Manage recipe, stock and customer satisfaction.
Infiniclick
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Ranked #8 for Hacker Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Hacker Cats.
Combine, automate and upgrade programs to amass a fortune! Infiniclick is a relaxing (or not, it's up to you) incremental game in which your goal is to pay an unfair debt with Fun Corp.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hacker Cats.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hacker Cats.
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 Casual with Hacker Cats.
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 Hacker Cats.
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 and Casual with Hacker Cats.
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 and Casual with Hacker Cats.
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 Hacker Cats
- What games are most similar to Hacker Cats?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hacker Cats are EchoLink: Recursion, quietd, Catio Simulator.
- Who developed Hacker Cats?
- Hacker Cats was developed by GUNTER GAMES.
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