Games like Root Cause
If Root Cause is your kind of game, the closest matches are HackMeNow, Hacker vs IT and CHAQS — 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 Root Cause: It's 2AM and someone's already hacked into the network. You've got a terminal, a clock that only moves when you act, and maybe twenty minutes before their next move. Find out how they got in. Save the day!
Players who liked Root Cause also play
Steam players who put hours into Root Cause 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.
HackMeNow
WHY THIS
Top pick for Root Cause fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Root Cause.
A terminal-style hacking puzzle game where every command matters. Investigate logs, decode secrets, avoid traps, and uncover the rogue system watching from behind the screen.
Hacker vs IT
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Root Cause fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Root Cause.
A game to show how really a fight between a Hacker and a IT worker works and how hackers operate. Old MS-DOS game.
CHAQS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Root Cause fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Root Cause.
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
Hacknet
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Root Cause fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Root Cause.
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.
Hacker The Dark Shadow
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Root Cause fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Root Cause.
Become a young programmer diving into the dangerous world of cybercrime. When the elite hacking collective Dark Shadows challenges you with a series of ruthless trials, you must push your genius to the limit. Will you prove your worth or become another digital casualty?
Network & Cyber Security Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Root Cause fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Root Cause.
Tired of boring network diagrams? Network & Cyber Security Simulator takes networking and cybersecurity into an interactive first-person (FPS) simulation game! Learn by doing, configure realistic CLI terminals from scratch, solve technical puzzles, and become the digital architect!
Grey Hack
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Root Cause fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Root Cause.
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.
Hacker Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Root Cause fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Root Cause.
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.
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 Root Cause.
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 Root Cause.
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 Root Cause.
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 Root Cause.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Root Cause.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Root Cause.
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 Root Cause.
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.
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Frequently asked about Root Cause
- What games are most similar to Root Cause?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Root Cause are HackMeNow, Hacker vs IT, CHAQS.
- Who developed Root Cause?
- Root Cause was developed by Osaka Rock.
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 Root Cause.
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