Uplink
Short description
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
- Developer
- Introversion Software
- Publisher
- Introversion Software
- Release
- Wed, Aug 23, 2006
- Price
$11.99
$3.59
70%- Reviews
- 1,766
- Positive
- 90%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 500K – 1M
- Concurrent players
- 2
- Genres
- Indie, Strategy
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $9.33, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $11.99 launch price. That is 22% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Aug 10, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
305 data points going back to Oct 1, 2010 lie outside the 90-day window of your plan. Plus shows the complete history.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Uplink. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Plague Inc: Evolved | Ndemic Creations 4 titles | 4 | − Hacking − Cyberpunk + Outbreak Sim + Multiplayer | $14.99 | 59,684 | 94% | Thu, Feb 18, 2016 | $25.6m $15.3m – $25.6m |
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Game Dev Tycoon | Greenheart Games 💚 2 titles | 4 | − Hacking − Cyberpunk + Management + Casual | $9.99 | 40,394 | 95% | Thu, Aug 29, 2013 | $16.8m $9.3m – $18.5m |
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911 Operator | Jutsu Games 3 titles | 4 | − Hacking − Cyberpunk + Management + Casual | $2.99 80% |
14,415 | 89% | Fri, Feb 24, 2017 | $7.6m $5.9m – $11.8m |
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Reus | Abbey Games 2 titles | 4 | − Hacking − Cyberpunk + God Game + Sandbox | $9.99 | 4,882 | 78% | Thu, May 16, 2013 | $2m $881k – $9m |
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Welcome to the Game II | Reflect Studios 5 titles | 4 | − Singleplayer − Cyberpunk + Horror + Psychological Horror | $9.99 | 3,155 | 85% | Tue, Apr 03, 2018 | $1.3m $944k – $1.9m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.