Games like Uplink
Closest overall match: FTL: Faster Than Light (★ 4.3). Quickest to finish: Sid Meier's Railroads! at about 1 hours.
We compared Uplink against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 11 came closest. What ties them together most: Singleplayer, 2D and Great Soundtrack. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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56%
1. FTL: Faster Than Light
Shares Real-Time with Pause, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 higher; about 5h longer.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 53%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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55%
2. Sid Meier's Railroads!
Shares Real-Time with Pause and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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55%
3. DEFCON
Shares Real-Time with Pause, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Singleplayer; same developer.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 41%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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51%
4. The Basement Collection
Shares Experimental, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 32%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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50%
5. Rome: Total War - Alexander
Shares Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
-
50%
6. Darwinia
Shares Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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50%
7. Despotism 3k
Shares 2D and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 28%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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50%
8. SpaceChem
Shares Great Soundtrack, 2D and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 19%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
-
50%
9. Gratuitous Space Battles
Shares 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 23%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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49%
10. 112 Operator
Shares 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 higher.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 39%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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49%
11. Organ Trail: Director's Cut
Shares Great Soundtrack, 2D and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 53%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Uplink?
On our similarity model, FTL: Faster Than Light is the closest match to Uplink — shares Real-Time with Pause, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 higher; about 5h longer.
Are there games like Uplink on Android or iOS?
Yes — we found 7 games like Uplink on Android & iOS. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Uplink on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.