Games Like Data Center
About Data Center: Data Center tasks you with building and managing a functional data facility from the ground up, routing cables between servers and racks while automating operations to process customer data for revenue. The game emphasizes hands-on construction with visual feedback, watching colored data packets flow through your network, though reviews suggest the 1.0 release feels incomplete despite its engaging core mechanics.
Played Data Center dry? Below are the 25 Steam idle games closest to it in our catalog. Every entry shares at least one of its tags (Automation, Casual, Economy, Hardware, Idler, Indie). Rarer overlaps rank higher, ties broken by players.
Top picks if you liked Data Center
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SysAdmin Odyssey - Back to the office
Shares: Automation, Economy, Hardware
SysAdmin Odyssey puts you in the chair of a system administrator handling daily office tasks and problems.
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Upload Labs
Shares: Automation, Idler, Logic
Upload Labs presents itself as a system-building puzzle but operates as a straightforward idle game where you repeatedly upgrade a single set of nodes to increase processing speeds and earnings.
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The Farmer Was Replaced
Shares: Automation, Casual, Idler
Write code to automate a farm drone, collecting resources and unlocking technology while solving increasingly complex programming challenges.
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Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation
Shares: Automation, Economy, Idler
Trade Bots tasks you with predicting stock movements using real historical price data and technical indicators, then placing buy and sell orders to turn a profit.
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Stone Story RPG
Shares: Casual, Idler, Indie
Stone Story RPG is an ASCII-art auto-battler that combines idle progression with strategic crafting and programming mechanics.
All 25 similar games
| # | Game | Match | Rating | Players | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Automation, Economy +8 | ★ 76% | 1 | $6.83 | Store | |
| 2 | Automation, Idler +4 | ★ 92% | 759 | Free | Store | |
| 3 | Automation, Casual +6 | ★ 97% | 466 | $7.99 | Store | |
| 4 | Automation, Economy +6 | ★ 74% | 1 | $11.99 | Store | |
| 5 | Casual, Idler +3 | ★ 91% | 12 | $29.99 | Store | |
| 6 | Automation, Casual +6 | ★ 100% | 1 | $11.99 | Store | |
| 7 | Automation, Idler +4 | ★ 85% | 59 | $14.99 | Store | |
| 8 | Automation, Idler +3 | ★ 74% | 1 | N/A | Store | |
| 9 | Automation, Idler +2 | ★ 95% | 437 | Free | Store | |
| 10 | Casual, Idler +4 | ★ 63% | 21 | Free | Store | |
| 11 | Idler, Indie +2 | ★ 97% | 33 | $9.99 | Store | |
| 12 | Idler, Indie +2 | ★ 97% | 25 | $5.99 | Store | |
| 13 | Casual, Economy +5 | ★ 86% | 16 | $7.79 | Store | |
| 14 | Casual, Idler +5 | ★ 92% | 8 | $3.99 | Store | |
| 15 | Casual, Idler +4 | ★ 84% | 4 | $9.74 | Store | |
| 16 | Casual, Idler +4 | ★ 70% | 2 | $2.99 | Store | |
| 17 | Casual, Idler +3 | ★ 83% | 10 | $14.99 | Store | |
| 18 | Casual, Idler +2 | ★ 72% | 4 | $5.09 | Store | |
| 19 | Casual, Idler +2 | ★ 97% | 1 | $5.99 | Store | |
| 20 | Indie, Job Simulator +1 | ★ 96% | 1 | $3.99 | Store | |
| 21 | Casual, Economy +5 | ★ 66% | 1 | $4.99 | Store | |
| 22 | Casual, Idler +4 | ★ 86% | 4 | $1.99 | Store | |
| 23 | Casual, Idler +4 | ★ 82% | 3 | N/A | Store | |
| 24 | Automation, Casual +3 | ★ 68% | 20 | N/A | Store | |
| 25 | Automation, Casual +3 | ★ 74% | 51 | Free | Store |
