Games like Trip to the Core
If Trip to the Core is your kind of game, the closest matches are Against All Skies, Etymancy and Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder — 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 Trip to the Core: Build three decks at once in a roguelike deckbuilder where 15 rebels fuse modular gear into broken combos across five shifting acts.
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Steam players who put hours into Trip to 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.
Against All Skies
WHY THIS
Top pick for Trip to the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trip to the Core.
Uncover the true cost of power in this party-based RPG deckbuilder with roguelite storytelling. Navigate treacherous sky islands, build unique decks for a crew of unlikely heroes and breach the storm to deliver revolution to the skies.
Etymancy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Trip to the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trip to the Core.
Etymancy is a dark fantasy roguelike dungeon crawler where every spell is a word. Craft your pile of magic letter tiles, collect strange grimoires to grow stronger, smite enemies, and descend deeper into the Lexicon.
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Trip to the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trip to the Core.
A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!
THORNSPELL
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Trip to the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trip to the Core.
Embody a magical florist by placing plants strategically in your garden, and watering them to score points. THORNSPELL is a garden-building roguelike where you will create and unleash chains of magical effects, dispelling the corruption spreading through your home.
Cave Crusade
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Ranked #5 for Trip to the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trip to the Core.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
Low Magic They Said
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Ranked #6 for Trip to the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trip to the Core.
A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where broken builds are a feature, not a bug. Think Slay the Spire meets the unforgiving difficulty of Dark Souls, with Diablo 2's philosophy of letting you discover ridiculously powerful builds yourself. They lied about the magic being low.
Blasted Dice
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Ranked #7 for Trip to the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trip to the Core.
Blasted Dice is a roguelike deckbuilder where you assemble a deck of dice to blow up your enemies. Achieve masterful combos, acquire legendary items, meet strange characters and blow up your enemies with your very own dice launcher.
Slot or Not
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Ranked #8 for Trip to the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trip to the Core.
Slot or Not is a turn-based slot machine battling adventure. Fight evil fruits alongside your battle buddy slot machine to save your village. Spin your destiny and grab the precious loot in a fast-paced, colorful adventure.
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 Trip 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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Trip to the Core.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Trip to the Core.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trip to 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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trip to the Core.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trip to 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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trip to the Core.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trip to 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.
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Frequently asked about Trip to the Core
- What games are most similar to Trip to the Core?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trip to the Core are Against All Skies, Etymancy, Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder.
- Who developed Trip to the Core?
- Trip to the Core was developed by Llamaplay.
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 Trip to the Core.
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