Games like ROOTLINE
If ROOTLINE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grey Hack, World Wide Hack and NODE: 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 ROOTLINE: ROOTLINE is a multiplayer hacking and systems simulation where every machine, network, program, file and exploit exists inside a massively multiplayer persistent shared world.
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Steam players who put hours into ROOTLINE 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.
Grey Hack
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Top pick for ROOTLINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ROOTLINE.
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.
World Wide Hack
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ROOTLINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ROOTLINE.
Reveal company secrets while hacking and exploring their quantum simulation networks. Fights for control with other players, coop with your faction, gather best tools, build most secure servers, write scripts and webs, or choose to be solo hacker who makes the right choices to change the world.
NODE: PROTOCOL
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ROOTLINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ROOTLINE.
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.
BadLads
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ROOTLINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with ROOTLINE.
BadLads is a neo-noir multiplayer roleplay game centered around each player having their own job. Cities are ruled by President. Civilians are assaulted by Gangs and protected by Police. Adventure, collect, craft, base build, gamble, socialize, overthrow, customize yourself and your belongings.
Brickhaven
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ROOTLINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ROOTLINE.
Create your gang from nothing. Start off with just yourself and take it from a single member to a sprawling criminal empire. Extort businesses, deal drugs, sell guns, and much more. Customize your gang to partake in whatever crimes you want them to. What kind of boss will you be?
Programming Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ROOTLINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with ROOTLINE.
A survival craft MMO played entirely by programming. Learn how to survive, adjust to varying challenges, and coordinate with other players all by writing real code. Gear up by progressing in the open world, then optimize your character for PVP in the arena. Play up to 5 characters simultaneously.
Jump Crew
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ROOTLINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ROOTLINE.
Build a ship tile by tile, automate production, and explore a persistent galaxy of little worlds. Forage, hunt, mine and forge with friends, establish planetary outposts, survive space hazards, and raid rival crews in this co-op PvPvE.
Screeps: World
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ROOTLINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ROOTLINE.
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ROOTLINE.
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 ROOTLINE.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ROOTLINE.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with ROOTLINE.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ROOTLINE.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ROOTLINE.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ROOTLINE.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about ROOTLINE
- Does ROOTLINE have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ROOTLINE supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to ROOTLINE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ROOTLINE are Grey Hack, World Wide Hack, NODE: PROTOCOL.
- Who developed ROOTLINE?
- ROOTLINE was developed by SamV522.
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 ROOTLINE.
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