Games like Traceroute
If Traceroute is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eternal 4 Rounds, Warnet and Becoming Saint — 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 Traceroute: A network-building simulation across the cities of a nation. Lay routers and cables to design your network, balancing bandwidth and latency on a limited budget. Survive sudden traffic surges and DDoS attacks as you connect city after city, learning real networking concepts as you play.
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Steam players who put hours into Traceroute 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.
Eternal 4 Rounds
WHY THIS
Top pick for Traceroute fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Traceroute.
A dynamic low-poly Tower Defense. Command mobile squads and repel attacks from 4 factions. Collect gold from settlements during battle to craft equipment—the currency for hiring new troops. Defeat titanic bosses, upgrade your camp, and unlock elite tiers for your army!
Warnet
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Traceroute fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Traceroute.
Outmaneuver, outbuild, outthink. In Warnet, the map is your ally and your enemy - master its properties, and you master victory.
Becoming Saint
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Traceroute fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Traceroute.
Choose your doctrine and preach across medieval Italy in this real-time strategy roguelike. Gather your diverse cast of followers, venture out to convince and convert new believers, conquer towns, and strive to become a saint in your lifetime—or die trying.
SPUM TD
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Traceroute fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Traceroute.
'SPUM TD' is a 2D strategy game that combines Auto-Chess and Tower Defense. Hire units from a randomized shop and match attribute and class synergies to build a powerful formation. Fend off pouring waves of enemies and complete your ultimate deck!
Stick Wars: The Laneborn
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Ranked #5 for Traceroute fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Traceroute.
A 2D stickman strategy game on three lanes: you don’t micro troops — you decide gold, deployments, and upgrades. Ally champions, lane-swapping bosses, and a campaign that only gets tougher.
Afterglow Fortress
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Ranked #6 for Traceroute fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Traceroute.
A cute hand-drawn 2D medieval RTS game. Gather resources, build your base, develop by day, and defend against monster hordes at night to protect your realm.
Shane's Trains
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Traceroute fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Traceroute.
Build and manage your own railway empire. Buy trains, create services, expand the network, and grow from a single branch line. Map your own routes, or play across the real UK rail network and beyond.
ByteCrawler
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Ranked #8 for Traceroute fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Traceroute.
Pick a hero, build your swarm, and hold off enemy waves. Place units, watch your energy, and level up to survive in this lane-defense strategy game!
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 Traceroute.
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 Traceroute.
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 Traceroute.
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 Traceroute.
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 Traceroute.
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 Traceroute.
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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Frequently asked about Traceroute
- What games are most similar to Traceroute?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Traceroute are Eternal 4 Rounds, Warnet, Becoming Saint.
- Who developed Traceroute?
- Traceroute was developed by Tiny Signal.
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 Traceroute.
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