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Top Hardware Games

50+ hardware games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Indie, Simulation, Software.

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  1. #1 Turing Complete
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,587 reviews2021
    Developer: LevelHead
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.7hMean: 12.7h≥1hr: 78%

    Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

  2. #2 Data Center
    75% matchMostly Positive77% of 888 reviews2026
    Developer: Waseku
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.9hMean: 9.3h≥1hr: 72%

    Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.

  3. #3 Hardware Engineers
    74% matchVery Positive84% of 298 reviews2019
    Developer: Green127
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 69%

    Hardware Engineers is a simulation game where you have to manage a IT business. In a world where technology expands every day, you will need to learn how to be competitive.

  4. #4 Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator
    68% matchVery Positive83% of 341 reviews2022
    Developer: Bigosaur
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.8hMean: 15.5h≥1hr: 82%

    Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrency. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices. Hire skilled employees and assign tasks. Use cash from your mega farms to research new technologies and reach the goal of each scenario.

  5. #5 Make Me LAG
    64% matchVery Positive93% of 252 reviews2020
    Developer: 4H StudioLab
    Platforms: Windows

    Make Me LAG is the first game that features a revolutionary new control scheme: your character actions are determined by the game frame count! Use external softwares and other tricks to lower the FPS count and control your character to defeat evil monsters and save the world!

  6. #6 PC Virtual LAB
    60% matchMostly Negative37% of 120 reviews2022
    Developer: XRAI LABPublisher: Universidad de Burgos
    Platforms: Windows

    PC Virtual Lab is a video game to improve learning in basic computer concepts.

  7. #7 SysAdmin Odyssey - Back to the office
    56% matchMostly Positive79% of 38 reviews2026
    Developer: Molodoy-GameDev
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    The SysAdmin simulator is a sandbox in which you can try on the role of a system administrator. Every new game day you will face different tasks and problems in the office where you work.

  8. #8 PC Store Simulator
    56% matchMostly Negative39% of 44 reviews2026
    Developer: CS Forge
    Platforms: Windows

    Run your own PC Store! Repair computers, build & sell custom PCs, purchase goods and stock shelves with all kinds of gaming equipment. Expand from a local shop to a giant tech store!

  9. #9 Head Tracker
    55% matchMixed54% of 28 reviews2026
    Developer: Yusuf Kurt
    Platforms: Windows

    Control games using only your head movements. This innovative virtual joystick application tracks your head using a webcam or external camera, allowing you to control in-game cameras with ease.

  10. #10 GuitarSesh
    52% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
    Developer: SongCreatorVision
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    A real-time guitar performance tracker that gamifies practice with visual feedback, career progression, and detailed analytics. Plug in any guitar, load tablature files (.gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gp), and watch your accuracy improve through data-driven insights and dynamic difficulty adjustment.

  11. #11 Wireworks
    50% matchVery Positive90% of 596 reviews2026
    Developer: JJJ
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 2.0hMean: 4.4h≥1hr: 66%

    Design your defenses, build your module board, and manage your wires. Combine signals and create synergies to empower your weapons and survive in this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.

  12. #12 Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+
    50% matchVery Positive95% of 23,548 reviews2022
    Developer: SEGA
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.1hMean: 44.4h≥1hr: 87%

    Take center stage in Hatsune Miku’s premier rhythm game starring the world’s #1 virtual pop star! With a stunner setlist and enormous wardrobe to style, it’s Miku’s ultimate tour—all it needs is you.

  13. #13 Elevator Programmer
    51% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
    Developer: Alice Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Linux

    Learn programming by implementing an elevator through a guided tour

  14. #14 PC Building Simulator
    50% matchVery Positive93% of 52,731 reviews2019
    Developer: Claudiu KissPublisher: The Irregular Corporation
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.8hMean: 39.3h≥1hr: 86%

    Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.

  15. #15 Gamestonk Simulator: Gone Rogue
    50% matchVery Positive84% of 132 reviews2026
    Developer: simsum
    Platforms: Windows

    Gamestonk is the first roguelite shop simulator. Manage the last videogame store in town, keep up with the latest releases, trade smuggled retros, select your modifiers strategically, hire workers, and deal with pesky shoplifters.

  16. #16 Uptime: A Cloud Provider Sim
    50% matchPositive97% of 38 reviews2026
    Developer: RubyRack Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Build a cloud provider from a garage to a hyperscaler - rack the hardware, run every cable, route the traffic, keep customers online. A first-person infrastructure sim where ports, power, fault domains, RSTP and BGP do real work, not flavour text. Readable for newcomers, honest for engineers.

  17. #17 IT Specialist Simulator
    50% matchMostly Positive75% of 425 reviews2025
    Developer: Pixel Team RED
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.2hMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 78%

    Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!

  18. #18 Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator Starter Edition
    50% matchVery Positive89% of 1,354 reviews2023
    Developer: Bigosaur
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 2.6h≥1hr: 48%

    Start in your bedroom in year 2010. Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto coins. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices. Hire skilled employees and assign tasks. Use cash from your mega farms to research new technologies.

  19. #19 HYPERVOX
    50% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
    Developer: Stagnant Water Games
    Platforms: Windows, Linux

    HYPERVOX is a music video game where players perform the vocal melody of songs. When notes reach the judgement line, press the corresponding key to hit the note and recreate the vocal melody in real-time. Aim for the highest score possible by hitting each note with precise timing and accuracy.

  20. #20 CPU Clicker
    50% matchNo user reviews0% of 4 reviews2026
    Developer: Valter Negreiros
    Platforms: Windows

    Click to generate cycles and power up your processor. Upgrade attributes to boost your production, push your CPU to its limits, and manage overheating before your system overloads and crashes.

  21. #21 Mawthorne
    51% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
    Developer: CrazyGroupTrio Games
    Platforms: Windows

    Explore the ancient underground of this strange, alien world in this metroidvania platformer! Navigate your way through 9 different areas of the underground and encounter powerful bosses that make you stronger, open paths, or alter other areas of the world!

  22. #22 Last Farewell
    50% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2022
    Developer: Flat Tail Studios ABPublisher: Flat Tail Studios AB
    Platforms: Windows

    Last Farewell is a Survival Co-op game where you are tasked to work together with others (or solo) in order to ensure your own survival for as long as possible. Gather supplies and craft during the day in order to protect yourself and the sanctuary, the Town Hall, during the night.

  23. #23 PC Creator - PC Building Simulator
    50% matchMixed65% of 218 reviews2021
    Developer: CREATY
    Platforms: Windows

    Try yourself as a PC builder and build your dream PC from 200+ real components!Complete different PC building and PC repair orders to upgrade your business: build a PC from zero, install popular OS', upgrade computers, install different programs and games, fix PC parts, and much more.

  24. #24 OrbRider
    50% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
    Developer: Orbjeff LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    OrbRider makes indoor cycling fun! You ride and explore up to 7 different tracks and biomes as you take on multiple challenges, gather resources, and unlock new and undiscovered areas. Personal ANT+ USB hardware dongle and ANT+ enabled speed sensor or smart trainer equipment required.

  25. #25 Evil Tag
    50% matchMixed67% of 870 reviews2017
    Developer: HFM Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 7.0h≥1hr: 86%

    Four teenagers have to pass the rite of student initiation. To do this, they must read a spell from the ancient book in the basement of the abandoned house and spend a night there. They thought it would be fun...

  26. #26 WAVER: A Typing Adventure
    50% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2021
    Developer: Buried Things
    Platforms: Windows

    WAVER is the world's greatest typing adventure game. Control a passionate crowd of 26 characters as they follow their favourite sports team around the world. Love your keyboard.

  27. #27 Star Impact
    50% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2019
    Developer: Me Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Star Impact screams with nostalgic gaming fun! Classic Vibes √ Challenging Platforming Indie Gameplay √ 80s Synth Soundtrack √ Play as Interstellar Pilot Stella Striker. Similar to great classics like Mario, Sonic, and Super Donkey Kong.

  28. #28 Keycap Co
    50% matchNo user reviews
    Developer: Pixel Galaxies s.r.o
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    A management game where you run a keyboard shop, hire staff, design and launch your own keyboards, and build a brand through store sales, press reviews, and wholesale orders.

  29. #29 Crosstalk
    50% matchNo user reviews2026
    Developer: Ongakken
    Platforms: Windows, Linux

    Crosstalk is a register-transfer level design sandbox with a built-in simulator and emulator. Players build designs ranging from LED controllers to complex computers using SystemVerilog. It has a gate-level simulator, a terminal emulator, an oscilloscope, introspection tools, a compiler, and more.

  30. #30 LOOPY
    50% matchNo user reviews2026
    Developer: Gleyson82
    Platforms: Windows

    LOOPY is the lab’s daily Slitherlink arena: Outrun neon, nine ranked protocols a day, arcade rules that shift under you, weekly/monthly circuits (Gauntlet, Megaloop, Throne Rush), and a synthwave score locked to every mode. Close the loop. Climb the board. No ads. No IAP.

  31. #31 Dead Sector
    50% matchNo user reviews2026
    Developer: Lonely Cloud
    Platforms: Windows

    Run your own data center. Design server boards component by component and use your boards space wisely. Wire power and network throughout your floor to form specialized clusters, and dispatch contracts to your custom hardware. Scale from a single rack to a massive redundant, multi-cluster operation.

  32. #32 Hamstr Protocol
    50% matchNo user reviews2026
    Developer: MoonBag Studio
    Platforms: Windows

    From a single hamster wheel to a full bio-mining operation: set up rigs, manage heat, feed your runners, and turn HAM into real in-game profit. Expand your setup, optimize your operation, and never let the hardware overheat.

  33. #33 Uptime 99.9%: Datacenter Simulator
    50% matchNo user reviews
    Developer: Uptime Interactive
    Platforms: Windows

    Build and manage your own datacenter. Monitor performance, prevent failures and optimize your servers to maximize your uptime and profit!

  34. #34 If Red Then Stop
    50% matchNo user reviews
    Developer: KerzovenPublisher: Metaroot
    Platforms: Windows, Linux

    Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.

  35. #35 Electronics Repair Shop
    50% matchNo user reviews
    Developer: Vio GamesPublisher: CubeCube Sports Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows

    Manage your own electronics store. Manage inventory, set prices, sell to customers, repair products, hire staff, and expand your store. Online orders, market dynamics, competition, and more are coming soon.

  36. #36 Plug and Slay
    50% matchNo user reviews2026
    Developer: Nine by Five Games
    Platforms: Windows

    Plug and Slay is a short incremental game about outgrowing your machine cage. Purchase anomalous PC parts and traverse a massive skill tree to overwhelm your wardens with automated neon firepower.

  37. #37 LLM Tycoon
    50% matchNo user reviews2026
    Developer: Futt Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    It's late 2022 and the AI race just started. Train models with real personalities, fill the map with datacenters, survive the scandals, and get to superintelligence before the rival CEOs who trash-talk you on social media.

  38. #38 Network Engineer
    50% matchNo user reviews2026
    Developer: Sector 7
    Platforms: Windows

    Want to conquer the next big digital domain? Build your own from scratch: Start a small server farm out in the sticks, and scale it up to a worldwide data center business. Oversee the power, cooling, and networks; gain client contracts, and increase your capacity as your services are requested.

  39. #39 Data Center Simulator
    50% matchNo user reviews2026
    Developer: Nicolas Ray
    Platforms: Windows

    Step into a realistic first-person data center simulator. Prepare for Data Center Tech Interviews by diagnose faults, replacing hardware, config networks, and manage critical infrastructure.

  40. #40 PC Versus
    50% matchNo user reviews
    Developer: IMPAKT Games
    Platforms: Windows

    PC Versus is the first ever Competitive PC Building game. Settle every 'my build vs your build' argument once and for all. Build the best rig, overclock for an edge, but push too hard and your build crashes. Free-to-play.

  41. #41 Highway Builder
    50% matchNo user reviews
    Developer: Detalion Games S.A.
    Platforms: Windows

    Manage a construction company and plan, build or repair highways around the globe in a realistic simulator - Highway Builder

  42. #42 Quadruped Match
    50% matchNo user reviews2024
    Developer: Lucas Fernandez
    Platforms: Windows

    Your quadruped robot has an incredible ability to navigate the most challenging terrains. Just give it a target, and win the race!

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