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Crash The Core

Jerome Labelle · Honest Rogue Games · 2021-11-26

Steam

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Nov 26, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A sci-fantasy roguelike deckbuilder about building your own starting deck, equipping gadgets, summoning allies, and salvaging cards for different effects. Discover strange events, go fishing and gather Intel to uncover a conspiracy to take over the galaxy!

Crash The Core is an Adventure Indie RPG Strategy game released in 2021, priced at $4.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (70% of 54 reviews).

0
playing now
70%
positive of 54 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 78% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 52% of 29,087 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 54 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2024-08-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 7 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920212025Week of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 01:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.992021-11-262026-07-092021-11-26 — best price $3.742022-02-02 — best price $3.992022-05-02 — best price $2.992022-06-23 — best price $2.992022-11-22 — best price $3.492022-12-22 — best price $3.492023-03-16 — best price $3.492023-06-08 — best price $3.492023-08-28 — best price $2.492023-11-23 — best price $3.742023-12-21 — best price $3.742024-05-06 — best price $2.492024-06-17 — best price $3.742024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-08-05 — best price $0.992024-10-28 — best price $3.492024-11-27 — best price $1.992024-12-09 — best price $2.492024-12-20 — best price $3.342025-02-10 — best price $2.492025-03-26 — best price $4.992025-09-08 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-10-15 — best price $4.992025-11-21 — best price $4.992026-01-12 — best price $4.992026-02-23 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $2.492026-05-04 — best price $1.492026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
89.6%
earned "Helmet"
10%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Player tags

RPGStrategyAdventureCard GameConspiracyManagementRogue-likeRogue-litePerma DeathCard Battler

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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