Games like Data Runner
If Data Runner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hentai Academy: Echo Protocol, Hentai Academy: Sweetheart and UNDERTOW — 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 Runner: An 18+ visual novel about a data courier betrayed by her own people — and about a megacity's underground, where the only shelter she finds is a man with more reasons to protect her than it first seems.
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Steam players who put hours into Data Runner 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.
Hentai Academy: Echo Protocol
WHY THIS
Top pick for Data Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
A dark 18+ visual novel about a war that began fifty years ago — and the people who believe it's over. A ruined city, humanity's last refuge, and a voice beneath the earth that has started speaking again.
Hentai Academy: Sweetheart
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Data Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
An 18+ visual novel about a magic that awakens more than just your gift: a quiet island, an ancient academy, students falling in love with someone no one else can see, and two witches, with either of whom it could have worked out. If you dare.
UNDERTOW
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Data Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
An 18+ visual novel about a shipwreck that tore her away from everything she knew — and a forgotten island whose secrets have waited for years, buried deep in the jungle.
Hentai Academy: The Professor's Secret
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Data Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
An 18+ visual novel about your final year of college: a quiet town by the ocean, autumn in New England, a thesis manuscript that refuses to be written, and three women — with each of them, things could work out. If you dare.
Bride for the Princess
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Data Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
Bride for the Princess is Erotic Yuri Visual Novel that tells a story about a Princess who must find someone to marry before her upcoming coronation due to a conspiracy; a legislation that was passed behind her back in attempt to ruin her.
Lens of Lust
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Data Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Data Runner.
Who said you can't mix profit with pleasure? Become a lewd photographer in this corny mix of visual novel and business management. Do you have what it takes to enchant the lens...?
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Data Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Data Runner.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Data Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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 Data Runner.
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
WHY THIS
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 Runner.
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 with Data Runner.
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 Data Runner.
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 Runner.
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 Data Runner.
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.
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More from Hentai Academy
Other recommendable Steam games by Hentai Academy, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hentai Academy: The Professor's Secret
WHY THIS
Another title from Hentai Academy, the studio behind Data Runner. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
An 18+ visual novel about your final year of college: a quiet town by the ocean, autumn in New England, a thesis manuscript that refuses to be written, and three women — with each of them, things could work out. If you dare.
Hentai Academy: Sweetheart
WHY THIS
Another title from Hentai Academy, the studio behind Data Runner. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
An 18+ visual novel about a magic that awakens more than just your gift: a quiet island, an ancient academy, students falling in love with someone no one else can see, and two witches, with either of whom it could have worked out. If you dare.
Hentai Academy: Echo Protocol
WHY THIS
Another title from Hentai Academy, the studio behind Data Runner. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
A dark 18+ visual novel about a war that began fifty years ago — and the people who believe it's over. A ruined city, humanity's last refuge, and a voice beneath the earth that has started speaking again.
UNDERTOW
WHY THIS
Another title from Hentai Academy, the studio behind Data Runner. Shares Indie and Casual with Data Runner.
An 18+ visual novel about a shipwreck that tore her away from everything she knew — and a forgotten island whose secrets have waited for years, buried deep in the jungle.
Frequently asked about Data Runner
- What games are most similar to Data Runner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Data Runner are Hentai Academy: Echo Protocol, Hentai Academy: Sweetheart, UNDERTOW.
- Who developed Data Runner?
- Data Runner was developed by Hentai Academy.
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 Runner.
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