Games like To The Core
If To The Core is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rock Crusher, Haste-Miner 2 and Far Mining — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its mastery buffs encourage specialization, challenging and contemplative. 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 →To The Core is an incremental planet-drilling adventure developed by SomethingExtra and released in 2023. Players extract resources from procedurally generated planets, managing fuel and deploying drones to automate mining operations. The game features a prestige progression system where players return to their home planet with mastery buffs earned across runs, encouraging strategic specialization. Reviewers highlight that drilling into planets feels compulsively satisfying and that home planet core farming emerges as a clever late-game strategy. The pixel art and music hit a nostalgic sweet spot for many players, while the skill tree offers meaningful progression that keeps sessions engaging. Players describe the experience as contemplative and hypnotic, finding it challenging despite its chill difficulty profile. Available for $7.99 and playable on Steam Deck, the title holds a 93% positive rating from over 3,500 Steam reviews.
About To The Core: To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.
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Rock Crusher
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with To The Core.
Top pick for To The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
Rock Crusher is an incremental game with a massive skill tree. Control a little rock-crushing machine stranded on a mysterious planet. Crush rocks, collect materials, evolve through upgrades, uncover the planet’s secrets - and maybe, just maybe, find a way to escape.
Haste-Miner 2
WHY THIS
Shares planet exploration with To The Core.
Second-strongest match for To The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
Haste-Miner 2 is a casual game where your main objective is to mine. When mining, you earn a currency called tokens and the blocks you mine are stored in your "backpack". Tokens can be used to upgrade your pickaxe in lots of different ways.
Far Mining
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for To The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with To The Core.
Far Mining is a short and relaxing incremental game about mining asteroids. Mine resources, upgrade your ship, unlock new tools, and find your way out of deep space.
Drillbound
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for To The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with To The Core.
Drillbound is a short incremental game about mining your way to the planet’s core. Crush layers of rock, gather resources, upgrade your drill, and unlock powerful machines as you descend into the depths.
Trainatic
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for To The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
Trainatic is an explosive incremental train-building game! Upgrade your cars, gather resources, and unlock powerful synergies to chug further down the track.
Module Miner
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for To The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with To The Core.
Module Miner is a minimalist retro inspired idle mining game. Hover over blocks to break them, collect resources, and buy upgrades.
Deep Space Cache
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for To The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with To The Core.
Deep Space Cache is a short & simple semi-idle bullet heaven incremental asteroid miner game.
Space Rock Breaker
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for To The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with To The Core.
Space Rock Breaker is a short incremental game about mining asteroids in space. Mine asteroids with guns, unlock new materials, process the ore by dropping it into a Plinko machine, and spend your credits on upgrades in a massive skill tree.
Reviewers mention these as similar to To The Core
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with To The Core.
Reviewers of To The Core cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with To The Core.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Reviewers of To The Core cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with To The Core.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
MechWarrior 5: Clans
WHY THIS
Reviewers of To The Core cross-mention this title as a similar play.
In MECHWARRIOR 5: CLANS, players become new Smoke Jaguar pilots in the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere. Lead a five-mech "Star" squad across diverse planets, engaging in an expansive campaign with immersive gameplay and intricate combat. Customize BattleMechs and explore strategic options.
DAEMON X MACHINA
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with To The Core.
Reviewers of To The Core cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Pilot your fully customizable Arsenal mech and join your fellow mercenaries in defending humanity from the corrupted machines and gigantic robots in this post-apocalyptic action game!
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with To The Core.
Reviewers of To The Core cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with To The Core.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
BATTLETECH
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with To The Core.
Reviewers of To The Core cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with To The Core.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
Siralim Ultimate
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with To The Core.
Reviewers of To The Core cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with To The Core.
Siralim Ultimate is a monster-catching, dungeon-crawling RPG with a ridiculous amount of depth. Summon over 1200 different creatures and travel through randomly generated dungeons to acquire resources, new creatures, and loot.
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Reviewers of To The Core cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below To The Core at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under To The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under To The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To The Core.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under To The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under To The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under To The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under To The Core on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with To The Core.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under To The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To The Core.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under To The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with To The Core.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with To The Core.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with To The Core.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with To The Core.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with To The Core.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about To The Core
- Does To The Core run on Steam Deck?
- To 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 To The Core cost?
- To The Core is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to To The Core?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside To The Core are Rock Crusher, Haste-Miner 2, Far Mining.
- Who developed To The Core?
- To The Core was developed by SomethingExtra.
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