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As a freelance hacker agent, you take shady corporate jobs through a simulated computer desktop, breaking into systems and covering your tracks. You spend your earnings on better hardware and software while the risk of getting caught keeps rising.
What defines Uplink:
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The closest matches for Uplink are Creeper World, Dice Legacy and Hacknet. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Uplink special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
80 %
Best match
An indie real-time strategy game where you push back a spreading, fluid enemy mass called the Creeper with carefully placed turrets and power supply. It plays like a tactical tower-defense puzzle.
80 % 14.99 €
Challenging difficulty
A survival city builder where dice rolls drive resource gathering, growth and defense. You balance luck and planning to carry your settlement through harsh winters on a strange ringworld continent.
80 % 9.75 €
Focus on a single character
Hacknet is a hacking simulator played entirely in a terminal, where you use real-style commands to break into systems and uncover the mysterious death of a hacker. It offers little hand-holding, plenty of secrets and an atmospheric network full of puzzles.
80 % 4.99 €
Challenging difficulty
A programming puzzler where you write assembly-style code for a broken, fictional computer to fix its nodes. Dry, demanding and all about tinkering and optimizing solutions.
80 % 19.99 €
Dark, serious atmosphere
You guide a squad of drones through derelict spaceships using a command line, relying only on sensors and limited camera feeds. Its roguelike survival structure and oppressive atmosphere keep tension high.
80 %
Dark, serious atmosphere
A PlayStation survival horror where young Rion has no weapons and fights with psychic powers that must be recharged by taking drugs. Pre-rendered backgrounds and a bleak sci-fi conspiracy create an oppressive atmosphere.
80 % −25 %Dark, serious atmosphere
A grim dieselpunk game where you operate a massive heavy turret, reading coordinates, measuring maps and aiming artillery precisely. The appeal lies in simulation-style calculation and targeting rather than fast action.
80 % 24.99 €
Sci-fi setting
A real-time colony-building strategy game where you settle alien planets and balance trade, economy and environmental impact. Managing each planet's ecology feels like a thoughtful planning puzzle.
79 % −10 %Dark, serious atmosphere
A cyberpunk shopkeeping sim on a dystopian space station where you craft, trade and smuggle dubious goods, juggle faction loyalties, and race to buy out your shop before rent crushes you. A rogue AI adds a combat threat on the side.
79 % 17.99 €
Puzzles and brain teasers
A minimalist top-down stealth game that retells Robin Hood in a near-future setting. You plan routes past guards and sneak through levels while Andy Serkis helps carry the story.