Games like The Core

Still thinking about The Core and its mysterious and atmospheric tone? These games are worth a look next.

Aethernaut
You awaken without any knowledge of who you are, as a voice tells you that you are “The Aethernaut”, capable of exploring the Construct despite the deadly aether. Explore a series of rooms and solve the experiments as you discover who you are. Will you escape the Construct before it's too late?
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
57% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$3.05
NODE
NODE is a 2.5D puzzle platformer set in a Cold War era nuclear complex. Guide your robot through a haunting, abandoned facility on the brink of catastrophe. Solve puzzles, shape the story with your choices, and unravel its past and present mysteries.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Tense
91% of 148 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
The Turing Test
A first-person puzzle game on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Engineer Ava Turing wakes to find the ground crew missing, and a station AI named Tom waiting. To reach the truth you solve tests that, he insists, only a human can pass. A short, philosophical mystery with a soundtrack worth sitting still for.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
87% of 6,254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
DeadCore
A first-person platformer where you climb a gigantic Tower rising from the void. Jump, dash and shoot your SwitchGun to switch traps and robots on and off while lasers and security systems hunt you. Fast, precise and hard, with a speedrun mode where every hundredth of a second counts.
Mysterious, Tense
85% of 1,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Claire de Lune
Claire de Lune is a story-driven puzzle adventure game set in a grounded science fiction universe.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Tense
51% of 39 Steam reviews are positive$39.99
The Talos Principle
A first-person puzzle game about a robot waking in a world of ancient ruins and strange technology, told to solve over 120 puzzles by a voice calling itself Elohim. Lasers, drones, time tricks and a lot of philosophy. Come for the brainteasers, stay because the questions follow you home.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
95% of 29,397 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 110$29.99
Core Descent
Core Descent is a puzzle-platformer set in a vivid world filled with puzzles to solve, items to collect, and secrets to find.
Mysterious, Atmospheric
100% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Rivage
Trapped alone on the A.R.E.S. space station, caught in a cosmic anomaly, scientist Miranda must puzzle her way through its locked sections to learn what happened to her crew. A first-person escape room in orbit: intricate logic puzzles, a detailed station to explore, and a mystery that unfolds one solved mechanism at a time.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
74% of 548 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$24.99
Soul Axiom
From the studio that brought you Master Reboot comes a first-person story-driven adventure puzzle game, set in the beautiful, haunting cyber-world of Elysia. Collect unique hand powers, discover multiple endings and choose your own destiny as you unravel the mystery of your digital afterlife.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Tense
76% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Number 217721
You'd been woken up by an entity which created you. It put you in a testing area and wants you to complete the puzzles and open the end gate. When you open the gate, the test is finished and you complete the task which the entity gave you.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
50% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
The Plane Effect
Embark on a dark, dystopian isometric adventure as 'Solo,' seeking to reunite with your wife and daughter after an otherworldly, life-changing event. Solve intricate puzzles and evade an everwatching sinister presence...
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
62% of 65 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
INFRA
You are a structural analyst sent to photograph a crumbling dam, and the day goes badly wrong. Bring a camera, a flashlight and patience.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Tense
88% of 3,512 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$29.99

Cheaper than The Core

Aethernaut

You awaken without any knowledge of who you are, as a voice tells you that you are “The Aethernaut”, capable of exploring the Construct despite the…

$3.05

DeadCore

A first-person platformer about scaling a dreamlike Tower, one deadly jump at a time.

$9.99

Core Descent

Core Descent is a puzzle-platformer set in a vivid world filled with puzzles to solve, items to collect, and secrets to find.

$3.99

Soul Axiom

From the studio that brought you Master Reboot comes a first-person story-driven adventure puzzle game, set in the beautiful, haunting cyber-world…

$1.99

Number 217721

You'd been woken up by an entity which created you. It put you in a testing area and wants you to complete the puzzles and open the end gate.

$0.99

The Plane Effect

Embark on a dark, dystopian isometric adventure as 'Solo,' seeking to reunite with your wife and daughter after an otherworldly, life-changing event.

$14.99

Memorrha

Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture.

$14.99

默途 Monobot

Coming online, Mono finds himself alone in a dark, dystopian world overrun with other hostile robots.

$6.99

THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE: Director's Cut

Dr. Herman, your sci-fi journey begins. Armed only with your mind and the Manipulator that operates with different types of energy, you'll have to…

$14.99

Facility 47

Begin a journey through an isolated research facility in the freezing depths of the Antarctic, solving exciting puzzles as you go and unlocking new…

$4.99

The Initiate

The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!

$9.99

Alone in the crowd

Settled on a dystopian future, Alone in the Crowd is a humorous puzzle simulation investigative thriller, where you use a weird variety of gadgets…

$6.99

Hidden gems like The Core

Fading Echo

Fading Echo is a fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG where creativity fuels combat.

$19.99

SnowBot

Silence, cold, solitude… What lies ahead? A small atmospheric adventure about a robot lost in a frozen wasteland.

Free

NODE

NODE is a 2.5D puzzle platformer set in a Cold War era nuclear complex.

$24.99

ENTITY: THE BLACK DAY

A former special forces operative is sent to uncover a government cover-up tied to a secret viral experiment.

$17.99

[ECHOSTASIS]

THE AWARD-WINNING CONCLUSION TO THE [ENIGMA] TRILOGY, [ECHOSTASIS] presents a world where our reality is not only curated by algorithms, but created…

$19.99

Rivage

Solve the station's mechanisms one by one and piece together what happened to the crew.

$24.99

Lorn's Lure

An android chases a glitch deep into a vast forgotten structure, scaling sheer walls with pickaxes while quiet lore and dread build with every height.

$14.99