Games like Deep Core Protocol
If Deep Core Protocol is your kind of game, the closest matches are INCREMINER, Click & Mine and Mining and Dwarves — 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 Deep Core Protocol: Deep Core Protocol is a mining incremental game where you mine ores, upgrade powerful pickaxes and skills, automate your operation with Mining AI, defeat bosses, and push deeper underground through Rebirth and New Game+.
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INCREMINER
WHY THIS
Top pick for Deep Core Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.
Click & Mine
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Deep Core Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
Click & Mine is a relaxing incremental mining game. Mine various resources and use them to buy upgrades, allowing you to descend deeper and deeper while unlocking new biomes, ores and skills.
Mining and Dwarves
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Deep Core Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Deep Core Protocol.
An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.
LUNAR
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Deep Core Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Deep Core Protocol.
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.
Hole Is Mine
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Deep Core Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
Hole Is Mine is an incremental adventure about purifying a divine Hole. Dive inside and launch your Mini'Ohs to mine for you. Extract impurities, upgrade your power, and find hidden secrets to grow the Village, customizing your Mini'Ohs with incredible powers. The Hole has spoken!
Miseria
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Deep Core Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
Miseria is a dark fantasy idle incremental game in which you lead a party of damned souls through the depths of the world.
Scratch the Ticket
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Deep Core Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
Scratch the Ticket is a first‑person incremental gambling sim where every ticket is a test of nerves. Print tickets, scratch cells, and decide: cash out now or risk it all. The outcome depends only on your choice.
Fracture Field
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Deep Core Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deep Core Protocol at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Deep Core Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Core Protocol.
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 ~50% under Deep Core Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
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 ~63% under Deep Core Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Core Protocol.
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 ~75% under Deep Core Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Deep Core Protocol.
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 ~50% under Deep Core Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Deep Core Protocol.
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 ~75% under Deep Core Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Deep Core Protocol.
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 ~75% under Deep Core Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
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 ~50% under Deep Core Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
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 and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
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?
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 Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Deep Core Protocol.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Core Protocol.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Core Protocol.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Core Protocol.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Deep Core Protocol
- How much does Deep Core Protocol cost?
- Deep Core Protocol is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deep Core Protocol?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deep Core Protocol are INCREMINER, Click & Mine, Mining and Dwarves.
- Who developed Deep Core Protocol?
- Deep Core Protocol was developed by Shinum.
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