Tunnet similar games & best alternatives

Tunnet

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

What works

  • Unique and deep networking puzzle gameplay
  • Immersive and atmospheric underground setting
  • High value for price
  • Encourages experimentation and optimization
  • Active developer support and updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Monsters can be annoying and poorly integrated
  • Some ui and traversal clunkiness
  • Limited social or cooperative features
  • Repetitive exploration and digging
  • Lack of extensive tutorials or guidance

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Demon Turf: Queens Edition

  • Infinifactory

  • Thief II: The Metal Age

  • INFRA

  • Barn Finders: The Pilot

  • Dark Roll

More fantastical

Games that feels like Tunnet but with more imaginative fiction

  • ENA: Dream BBQ

  • Corn Kidz 64

  • Cosmodread

  • Skin Deep

  • The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker

  • Eldritch

More violent

Games that feels like Tunnet but with more combat and destruction

  • Selaco

  • Zortch

  • Dino Trauma

  • Z.O.N.A: Origin

  • Haydee 2

  • Nightmare of Decay

Less competitive

Games that feels like Tunnet but with less competition against others

  • You Deserve

  • Left Alone

  • Penumbra Overture

  • ZERO PROTOCOL

  • Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut

  • One Man´s Trash

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Tunnet: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Competition, Status.

Last update: 03/08/2026