Games like Around The Core
If Around The Core is your kind of game, the closest matches are LUNAR, Horizon Idle and The Big Suck — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Around The Core: A space-themed incremental shooter where destruction fuels growth. Annihilate asteroids, harvest wealth, and climb a massive upgrade tree.
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Steam players who put hours into Around 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.
LUNAR
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Top pick for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Around The Core.
A tiny astronaut explores the Moon in a little window on your desktop. Collect resources, send out drones, upgrade your gear, and customize your operator. A calm idle companion to keep the workday fun.
Horizon Idle
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Second-strongest match for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A space-themed idle RPG of skilling and crafting. Mine, refine, research, and automate your way from a lone ship to an industrial empire. Level skills to 100, engineer your fleet for auto-battler combat, and Warp to prestige. No energy gates, just numbers that climb forever.
The Big Suck
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Third-strongest match for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
A short incremental game where you are the disaster. Destroy fields, cars, buildings. Gather wreck to grow and spend it on upgrades inside the big skill tree.
Frankenmine
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Ranked #4 for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
An incremental game where you dig through cursed tombs, harvest bones, flesh, and various resources; stitch together your own creature from nothing. Discover powerful artifacts, experiment with unique combinations, and bring your creation to life—piece by piece.
Planet No More
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Ranked #5 for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Around The Core.
An arcade-incremental game where you DESTROY planets! Build a fleet, upgrade weapons, max out your skill tree and destroy your target slowly. You'll advance deep into the galaxy, strategically shattering planets to their cores to unlock the next celestial.
The Last Mothership
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Ranked #6 for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Around The Core.
A short incremental game about harvesting planets to feed your mothership. Mine, manage resources, grow your fleet, and unlock upgrades to evolve your species. You are the devourer of worlds.
Astrodle
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Ranked #7 for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
Ready for some chill time in space? Astrodle has you covered. Watch the numbers soar as you upgrade your ship and travel the stars. Oh, and you might just become a god.
Rock Crusher
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Ranked #8 for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Around 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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Around 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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Around The Core.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Around The Core.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Around The Core.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about Around The Core
- What games are most similar to Around The Core?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Around The Core are LUNAR, Horizon Idle, The Big Suck.
- Who developed Around The Core?
- Around The Core was developed by draftentropy.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Around The Core.
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