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208 games like Around The Core

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01 Orb Breaker Cover

2026 · Linux, Mac, PC

Orb Breaker

100%

An incremental bullet hell about shooting orbs at enemies, collecting resources, and becoming powerful!

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Around The Core

100% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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02 Just Keep Fishing Cover

2026 · Mac, PC

Just Keep Fishing

89%

A short incremental game about catching a lot fish.

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Around The Core

89% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Havocado Cover

2019 · Mac, PC

Havocado

79%

Havocado is a silly hyper-speed multiplayer physics fighting game; shoot, punch, drive, and use magic to knock the other players off in a multitude of locations and scenarios.

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Around The Core

79% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre
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04 A Game About Flipping Cards Cover

2026 · Mac, PC

A Game About Flipping Cards

76%

Did you read the title? That's the game, I promise. Flip cards to make money to buy upgrades to make more money to buy more upgrades to make more money. There is an arbitrary goal that has been set by the developer, but you can actually play indefinitely.

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Around The Core

76% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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05 Slot Grind Cover

2026 · Mac, PC

Slot Grind

75%

Slot Grind is an incremental slot machine game where you spin, earn money, and put it back into upgrades. Unlock new machines with better payouts, improve them, and automate your slots as your profits grow, until you finally pay off your debts.

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Around The Core

75% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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06 Shape Survivors Cover

Year unknown · Mac

Shape Survivors

75%

The arena is shrinking. Annihilate endless swarms of angry geometry to climb the global leaderboards in this relentless bullet heaven. Collect Poly shards, upgrade your weapons, and unlock permanent meta-progression to survive the crush in Shape Survivors.

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Around The Core

75% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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07 Roidgrinder Cover

Year unknown · Platform unknown

Roidgrinder

68%

The origin story of a famous roidgrinder. It's an incremental space mining game where you interact with the ship's systems through a state-of-the-art terminal interface. Crossbreed of 2D arcade, lightweight simulation and some idler elements. Note: KEYBOARD RE...

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Around The Core

68% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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08 Death By Taxes Cover

Year unknown · PC

Death By Taxes

66%

A satirical incremental clicker about a billionaire facing the one thing money can’t fix: taxes. Spend every last dollar on increasingly stupid purchases before the bill kills you.

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Around The Core

66% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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09 A Mountain Called Hope Cover

2026 · Mac, PC

A Mountain Called Hope

64%

Explore a hauntingly abandoned late 1800s mountain coal mining town afflicted by a violent winter storm.

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Around The Core

64% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Desktop Snail Assassin Cover
64%

A idle desktop snails-like. Every now and then the murderous snail assassin is hunting your mouse cursor, turning your desktop into a chaotic bullet hell. How long can you survive?!

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Around The Core

64% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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11 Nock Nock Loose Cover

Year unknown · PC

Nock Nock Loose

64%

A short incremental tower defense game where you defend your city from enemy armies. Sharpen your archers' aim, unlock powerful abilities in a massive skill tree, and crush every warlord who dares besiege your walls.

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Around The Core

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 SuperPacker Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, PC

SuperPacker

63%

An idle game about packing boxes!

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Around The Core

63% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Apsulov: End of Gods Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Apsulov: End of Gods

60%

You awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to honor the Nordic Gods and to house an artifact, buried in the earth aeons ago. Unveil the secrets of the inhabitants, the artifact, and the nine realms of Yggdrasil in Apsulov: End of Gods.

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Around The Core

60% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Incrempire Cover

2026 · Linux, Mac, PC

Incrempire

60%

Defend. Upgrade. Dominate. A relaxing incremental base-defense game, packed with powerful skills and a deep skill tree.

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Around The Core

60% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Countdown to Eclipse Cover

2026 · Linux, PC, browser

Countdown to Eclipse

57%

An incremental cult management sim. Tired of your old life, you take out a $70,000 loan to purchase a tiny church and begin your new ministry.

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Around The Core

57% Spannender Match
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Serious Sam: The First Encounter Cover
52%

A first person shooter extravaganza where you take the role of Serious Sam, a badass killer whose goal is to defeat monsters commanded by Mental, an extraterrestrial entity that wants to destroy humanity. Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter...

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Around The Core

52% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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17 NoodlePunk Cover

Year unknown · PC

NoodlePunk

52%

Forced into a corporate-mandated work program, you must run a noodle shop in a dying cyberpunk city to pay off your crushing debt. Prepare orders fast, manage your ingredients, and upgrade your operation while keeping up with relentless customer drones.

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Around The Core

52% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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18 FleetLord Cover

2026 · PC

FleetLord

52%

A space RTS about decisions, not menus. Conquer planets, link them to fuel your war machine, and level up your empire with randomized perk cards. Crush all opposition.

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Around The Core

52% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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19 Don't Lose Face! Cover

2026 · PC

Don't Lose Face!

52%

Don't Lose Face! is an abstract simulation game that makes you flustered and laugh until you're exhausted. What you're about to face: multi-tasking torture, facial features that slide down like cream, hilarious physics feedback, abstract random events…

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Around The Core

52% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Single player Mode
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20 SCP: Antimemetics Division Cover

No, it's not your first day. The Amnestics have kicked in, and Site-48 has locked down. Scavenge restricted gear, gain clearance to forgotten levels, and bend reality to escape lethal SCP anomalies. Tactile survival horror where remembering too much will get y...

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Around The Core

52% Spannender Match
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