CorePiercer

The gameplay is not bad, but the visual style would like to be much better

Nope, this is a pass on basically all levels, I purchased because I thought it might make a good steam deck game, got it on sale for like $1 so figured it was worth at least a dollar. I knew it wasn't "intended" for Steam Deck, so I tried on my PC as well, and this was my experience on both: Missing graphics, some trains are just wheels without any visual on them, menus seem to be missing buttons and no clear indicator the menu is open at times. "NPC"s look gross and when talking to them they are just Anime pictures with similar color schemes. Poor controls, and a huge lack of instructions, took me like 10 minutes just to figure out how to upgrade, and that you can play with just your mouse. Huge lack of polish, the graphics I can get over, I didn't care. But I was getting warned almost every single "dive" on my way up with the message "Does this train ever run out of fuel? Wish I could turn water into fuel!" keep in mind this came in 3 different text boxes you had to click through ...

An unusual idea for the game is to go underground, making your way deeper and farther. With the improvement of the wagon boring machine, there is additional interest. The interface is intuitive.

A really good "drill train" simulation/managment, the game does exactly what the description says and the graphics are what you see in the screenshots. I got it on sale and feel like the price was right, full price might be a tad bit much for some people.

A cool game where an underground train extracts resources and delivers them wherever needed, exploring the depths of the world. I reached the lava and the train burned out. There is also always spare gas on the train, even if it runs out for the tenth time. But I really liked to mine different rocks and deliver them to consumers, improving my train and wagons. Cool!

While it is a rather simple game, it is strangely addicting! You drive a train with a drill attached to it to, well, pierce through different levels of earth and collect resources which you then sell for money to upgrade your train! Simple, like I said. But addicting. Definitely worth the price on sale.

The game's concept isn't very bad at all, has a very (Super) Motherload kinda feel to it with a mechanic about you being a driller train. It's honestly a mechanic that works well and has a lot of replay-ability in its loop. The problem is the flash quality visual design and obvious bugs in its displays for your various information like fuel and depth and such. To Be Fair, (Super) Motherload started out as a flash game too, but even that had some obvious polish and was a labor of love rather than just "Hey, look what I can do, give money" (also tbf, back then people released games for fun rather than for money so there's that too, but I digress). I bought it on a half priced sale so I'm not torn up about it, but I am sad to see that the game doesn't have the polish it deserves. If Xe2050 doesn't try to copyright this in some way, would love to see another designer/studio pick this up and give it the proper release it deserves. And yes, I might play this again if only for laughs or to ...

Weekend game

The balance is high-quality, the gameplay is also quite good, but the game needs variety in design and art.

Just okay, 7/10