Similar games
Games like Mainlining
Rebelephant · 2017 · 77 % positive of 350
24 games that play like Mainlining and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Need to Know, Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You and Cyber Manhunt.
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At a glance
What games like Mainlining have in common
- The tags they share most often with Mainlining: Hacking (20 of 24), Simulation (17) and Puzzle (12).
- They came out between 2006 and 2026, 14 of them after Mainlining (2017).
- Best rated by Steam players: Hacknet (93 % positive of 25,115).
- hack_me 2, Hacker Simulator and HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator both play and look like Mainlining.
By gameplay
Plays like Mainlining
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Need to Know
66 % positive of 286
Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Point & Click
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
90 % positive of 14,954
Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Point & Click
Cyber Manhunt
93 % positive of 14,720
Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Puzzle
Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure
91 % positive of 224
Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Puzzle
Hacknet
93 % positive of 25,115
Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Typing
Anonymous Hacker Simulator
85 % positive of 589
Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Typing
Replica
85 % positive of 3,437
Shared: Hacking · Puzzle · Pixel Graphics
Uplink
90 % positive of 2,359
Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Puzzle
Access Denied
81 % positive of 384
Shared: Hacking · Puzzle · Indie
hack_me 2
68 % positive of 792
Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Indie
Hacker Evolution
67 % positive of 1,047
Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Puzzle
Midnight Protocol
85 % positive of 418
Shared: Hacking · Typing · Programming
More matches
- Malware88 % positive of 1,060Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Puzzle
- Hacker Simulator75 % positive of 1,107Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Typing
- hack_me60 % positive of 2,103Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Programming
- Hacker Evolution: Untold60 % positive of 424Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Indie
- Song of Farca81 % positive of 1,235Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Point & Click
- Light58 % positive of 340Shared: Hacking · Indie · Adventure
- The Operator92 % positive of 6,196Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Point & Click
- Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator92 % positive of 4,209Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Puzzle
- Keyword: A Spider's Thread82 % positive of 269Shared: Hacking · Puzzle · Story Rich
- Tech Support: Error Unknown74 % positive of 609Shared: Hacking · Simulation · Story Rich
- HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator88 % positive of 1,012
- The Occupation60 % positive of 387Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Indie
By look
Looks like Mainlining
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator
72 % positive of 208
Kingsway
92 % positive of 1,646
Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division
97 % positive of 1,056
hack_me 2
68 % positive of 792
Desktop Explorer
95 % positive of 2,507
One Dreamer
91 % positive of 401
Heavy Dreams
37 % positive of 173
tERRORbane
89 % positive of 355
IT Specialist Simulator
75 % positive of 476
Desktop Survivors 98
95 % positive of 582
Outcore: Desktop Adventure
97 % positive of 15,157
Emily is Away Too
93 % positive of 5,977
More matches
- S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH90 % positive of 1,945
- HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator88 % positive of 1,012
- Do Not Feed the Monkeys 209972 % positive of 971
- My Little Life91 % positive of 741
- Archimedes78 % positive of 216
- Hacker Simulator75 % positive of 1,107
- Caves of Qud95 % positive of 10,410
- KinitoPET93 % positive of 12,279
- UOS Prototype100 % positive of 185
- Kukoro: Stream chat games98 % positive of 978
- 98xx79 % positive of 314
- CozyTyper95 % positive of 246
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.