Games like Crash The Core
If Crash The Core is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monster Train, LONESTAR and Wildfrost — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and nostalgic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Crash The Core: A sci-fantasy roguelike deckbuilder about building your own starting deck, equipping gadgets, summoning allies, and salvaging cards for different effects. Discover strange events, go fishing and gather Intel to uncover a conspiracy to take over the galaxy!
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Steam players who put hours into Crash The Core also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crash The Core.
Top pick for Crash The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Crash The Core.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crash The Core.
Second-strongest match for Crash The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crash The Core.
Third-strongest match for Crash The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crash The Core.
Ranked #4 for Crash The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Card Hog
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Crash The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
Card Hog is a pig-based dungeon crawler with roguelike and deck building elements. Take the role of an adventurous hog and interact with more than 100 cards of dangerous enemies, powerful weapons and exciting spells!
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crash The Core.
Ranked #6 for Crash The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crash The Core.
Ranked #7 for Crash The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crash The Core.
Ranked #8 for Crash The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crash The Core at current Steam store prices.
The Vagrant
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Crash The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crash The Core.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
Mining Mechs
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crash The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crash The Core.
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
ULTIMATE HARDBASS DEFENCE
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crash The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crash The Core.
SHOOT. SURVIVE. DANCE HARDBASS.
Your Mother
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crash The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Crash The Core.
《Your Mother》is a computer desktop companion. Experience the love and kindness from mothers.
LIZARDS MUST DIE
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Crash The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crash The Core.
The great exploits of the Ancient Rus in the war with the lizards. Immerse yourself in the world of Hyperborea and defeat hordes of Lizards and other unholy who encroached on holy places Ancestors. Choose a blessed hero and go save the world from the green plague.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Crash The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crash The Core.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Crash The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crash The Core.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crash The Core.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crash The Core.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Crash The Core.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crash The Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crash The Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crash The Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crash The Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crash The Core.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crash The Core.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
Frequently asked about Crash The Core
- Does Crash The Core run on Steam Deck?
- Crash The Core is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Crash The Core cost?
- Crash The Core is listed on Steam at 1.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Crash The Core have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Crash The Core supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Crash The Core?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crash The Core are Monster Train, LONESTAR, Wildfrost.
- Who developed Crash The Core?
- Crash The Core was developed by Jerome Labelle and published by Honest Rogue Games.
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