Games like Around The Core
If Around The Core is your kind of game, the closest matches are LUNAR, Glorpnauts and The Last Mothership — 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.
Players who liked Around The Core also play
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
WHY THIS
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.
Glorpnauts
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
Build it. Automate it. Watch it grow! Glorpnauts is a space incremental where you mine asteroids, expand your fleet, build an automated economy and defend it from pirates. Prestige for permanent upgrades, explore new star systems and turn a tiny base into a thriving space operation.
The Last Mothership
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match 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.
CasualSteam ↗That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Tyrant God
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Ranked #4 for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Around The Core.
Slay waves of monsters with your mouse, collect coins, buy permanent upgrades, and grow stronger round after round in a compact incremental action game.
Crystal Ascend
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Around The Core.
A simple incremental game where you nurture crystal elementals by destroying floating crystals and harvesting aether. Upgrade the skill tree, unlock new abilities to gather resources faster, and build your ultimate crystal companions.
Nova Fleet
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
A short incremental space game about building and expanding a mining fleet. Destroy asteroids, collect resources, and upgrade your ships to mine faster and extract more with every run.
Infinite Ruins
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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.
An incremental mining game where you manage golems, destroy blocks, unlock upgrades, and descend infinitely in search of ever more valuable resources.
Miseria
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Around The Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
Miseria is a dark fantasy idle incremental game in which you lead a party of damned souls through the depths of the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Around The Core at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Around The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Around 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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Around The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Around 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
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Priced ~56% under Around The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Around 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 ~71% under Around The Core on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Around 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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Around The Core on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Around The Core.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Around The Core on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Around The Core.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Around The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Around The Core.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Around The Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Around The Core.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
- How much does Around The Core cost?
- Around The Core is listed on Steam at 3.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- 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, Glorpnauts, The Last Mothership.
- 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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