Data Center

Data Center

Waseku · March 31, 2026 · Simulation, Automation, Hardware, Logic, Job Simulator

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Data Center price by region

Data Center costs $5.79 in Georgia (USD), £7.99 in the United Kingdom, $8.99 in the United States, €9.19 in Europe (EUR), CA$10.75 in Canada, A$12.75 in Australia, NZ$14.25 in New Zealand, zł30.99 in Poland and R$33.99 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest Data Center offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $5.79 $5.79 — 1
United Kingdom £7.99 £7.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $8.99 $8.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €9.19 €9.19 — 1
Canada CA$10.75 CA$10.75 — 1
Australia A$12.75 A$12.75 — 1
New Zealand NZ$14.25 NZ$14.25 — 1
Poland zł30.99 zł30.99 — 1
Brazil R$33.99 R$33.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Data Center

✦ AI summary

Data Center is a hands-on building game where you construct, cable, and expand a living data center from bare floors to bustling operations, connecting servers and switches with Ethernet to route customer traffic visualized as colorful packet-balls rolling through your network. Keep your infrastructure humming by meeting customer demands, managing hardware lifecycles and failures, and designing redundant paths that maintain service even when gear breaks—all while watching every cable, upgrade, and optimization visibly transform how data flows.


Build, cable, and grow a living data center from the ground up. Start with bare floors, buy racks, servers, and switches, then physically place and stack your hardware the way you want. Run Ethernet between ports to shape your network by hand and watch data spring to life: every customer’s traffic appears as colored packet-balls rolling along your cables, revealing bottlenecks, idle links, and beautifully tuned throughput at a glance.Customers arrive with app requirements and capacity targets. It’s your job to connect enough servers to each customer app, balance load across racks and switches, and keep the data flowing. As you successfully process customer data you earn money to expand, XP to unlock more capable devices, and reputation to attract bigger, more demanding clients. Hardware ages, too—servers and switches have end-of-life and can break—so design for uptime: keep services reachable even if devices on the path die, swap out failing gear, and build redundancy with servers that can use multiple network connections.Tinker for perfect layouts or move fast to hit deadlines; either way, this is a tactile builder where every cable matters and every improvement is visible. No complex command lines—just the satisfying click of ports, the hum of stacked servers, and a vibrant river of packets proving your design works, even under failure.Key features
  • Hands-on data center building: buy racks, servers, and switches; stack hardware and route Ethernet by hand.
  • Visual networking: see packets as colored balls per customer, making flow, congestion, and capacity instantly readable.
  • Customer-driven goals: connect enough servers to each app to meet requirements and keep contracts running.
  • Progression that rewards good design: process data to earn money, gain XP to unlock new devices, and build reputation to attract new customers.
  • Reliability and maintenance: devices have lifespans and can fail—plan replacements, manage downtime risk, and keep services online.
  • Redundancy that matters: give servers redundant connections and create alternate paths so traffic stays reachable when a switch or link dies.
  • Evolve your layout: upgrade hardware, recable to remove bottlenecks, and scale your floor from scrappy beginnings to a bustling operation.
  • Immediate feedback: every placement, failure, connection, and upgrade changes how packets move—optimize by watching the network breathe.
Build it your way, wire it your way, and grow from a single rack to a reputation that attracts the biggest clients—all powered by a network you can literally see working, surviving hiccups and hardware end-of-life along the way.

Data Center — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player, Online co-op
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Data Center is a unique networking management game that appeals strongly to players interested in technical systems, offering engaging puzzle-solving and educational value, but it suffers from significant quality issues including game-breaking bugs where items get stuck permanently, tedious cable management without quality-of-life features, and repetitive gameplay that wears thin after several hours.

Not recommended Oct 4, 2026
Way too glitchy to be 1.0. I have to save often because sometimes things will be permanently stuck in a rack and cant be removed. Or the only cart you have glitching into the ground and being irrecoverable. no stuck cart button or way to pick it up or even a way to get another. so your reloading your save a lot and losing progress to cope. This should be an early access game and isnt "Release" quality by a large margin. Also you will also often be removing cables and the dev has no QoL options i can find to quickly remove them. so your holding the right mouse button and waiting several seconds for each cable over....and over.....and over.....its tedious. Wouldn't recommend it in its current condition ill update if these are fixed.
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Recommended Oct 9, 2026
It's a very unique and fun game for what it is. Most of my time was spent on building the main rack for my edge switches, spine switches, core routers, and firewall. After you get past that though it starts to feel pretty repetitive. Designing and dropping in new racks is fun but man is it tedious as hell to wire them. My hand's down biggest complaint is having to click each and every node along the cable traversal paths. If there could be some form of auto snapping added for the cables I personally feel that would significantly improve the gameplay but I'm sure not everyone agrees. All that said, I was able to squeeze 30 hours out before the it started to become a bit of a slog so I'd say well worth the price both for the knowledge you gain about what's involved with networking servers as well as the initial experience, especially while it's on sale. It does have some decent workshop mods as well. I'm excited to see what future patches bring.
Recommended Oct 9, 2026
if you have autism you will have a good time
Recommended Oct 7, 2026
very fun if youre a nerd and have autism
Recommended Oct 5, 2026
Great game. A couple small bugs here and there but if you save every so often it won't matter. So addictive!
Recommended Oct 3, 2026
Data Center has turned my head around multiple times, because while I am no slouch with computers, this game has made me think more than most games have in a long while.

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