Core Keeper is the best mix of the most beloved games, like Terraria, Minecraft, Stardew Valley in the best possible way. It feels endless, to expand on your characters class, builds and creativity. 100/10 from this bee.
Core Keeper
- Release Date:
- Aug 27, 2024
- Metacritic:
- 85
- Developer:
- Pugstorm
- Publisher:
- bilibili, Fireshine Games
- Platforms:
- Windows Linux
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About the Game
Awaken as an explorer in a long-forgotten cavern teeming with untold secrets. In this award-winning, 1-8 player mining sandbox adventure, your choices shape an epic journey. Harvest relics and resources, craft advanced tools, build your base, and explore a dynamically evolving world waiting to be unearthed.
Level up your skills, defeat legendary Titans, and unveil the power of the Core. Grow your garden, fish in mysterious waters, master a vast array of recipes, raise and care for animals, encounter the Cavelings, and carve out your own unique world in an enchanting underground adventure.
- MINE RESOURCES
Delve deep to harvest precious resources and unearth hidden gems. Craft tools to help you survive, from pickaxes, fishing rods, and shovels to traps, bombs, and mortars. Upgrade your arsenal and equipment with advanced tools like the mighty Obliteration Ray, and automated machinery to streamline mining, smelting, storage, and more. Level up your skills and unlock powerful weapons to conquer the depths.
- DISCOVER AN ANCIENT WORLD
Explore diverse biomes with unique ecosystems and long-forgotten lore. From the living walls of the Clay Caves to the crystal caverns of the Shimmering Frontier, discover more about this mysterious world as you uncover the secrets of the Cavelings. Build a boat to set sail across the Sunken Sea, race across the Desert of Beginnings, and encounter the remnants of ancient civilizations.
- BUILD, CRAFT & GET CREATIVE
Create a totally unique base using a variety of different materials and customisations. From the ultimate adventurer’s lair to a cozy underground cottage, shape the underground your way. Customize your character’s appearance and choose from an array of powerful armor and unique outfits to suit the moment.
- BATTLE TITANS
Face legendary Titans that hold the secret to this long-forgotten world. Sharpen your combat skills against a variety of monsters and mini-bosses, spend talent points to level up your abilities, and plan your strategy to conquer these colossal creatures of the underground. Discover rare and powerful loot to help you on your journey and power up the Core.
- EXPLORE WITH FRIENDS
Enjoy the adventure solo or team up in 2-8 player drop-in/drop-out online co-op. Play your way and explore at your own pace — celebrate the seasons, trade with merchants, hatch your new best friends, design the ultimate base, automate resource gathering, host your own dedicated server, create music on playable instruments and discover an unforgettable sandbox adventure.
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Bad scaling unless you have a bunch of friends to play with, the upgrades stagnate a ridiculous amount, and the mapping system isnt great.
Was looking for a relaxing game to play with some friends and to quote one of them, "Okie, we'll be playing this for at least the next 5 months." 10/10 easily worth the price!
Core Keeper is a true gem in the line of games like Terraria and Stardew Valley, offering light action-survival, biome-based exploration, boss-locked progression with mining, farming, base building, crafting, gardening, fishing, and automation mechanics. It all combines into a pixel-perfect game which sucked me into its charming underground for quite a while.
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboar...
Excellent game with beautiful story and world building!
Really fun game, does what it says on the tin, great skill variety (classes kind of) and a fun world system that works in a circle shape (you'll see what i mean). Gets challenging later on, more than you'd expect it to. Highly recommend
Great alone; even better in Coop. A little more base building focus than Terraria and a skill point system based that I personnaly enjoy (based on the actions, the more you run, the more running skill will grow). If you loved Terraria you can t go wrong with this one.
1 year later and remembering about how long and painful it took getting 100% achievements was still scares me. 10/10 would core on her keeper again.
The game is beautiful, and the music is superb. Plus, progressing is not that hard. My favorite part of this game is the many automation builds. And I'm excited to hear the Pugstorm announcement on KYORA.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 460 / Radeon HD 5850
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / Radeon R9 280X
FAQ
How much does Core Keeper cost?
Core Keeper costs $19.99.
What are the system requirements for Core Keeper?
Minimum: Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 460 / Radeon HD 5850 Recommended: Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / Radeon R9 280X
What platforms is Core Keeper available on?
Core Keeper is available on Windows PC, Linux.
Is Core Keeper worth buying?
Core Keeper has 93% positive reviews from 100 players. Metacritic score: 85/100.
When was Core Keeper released?
Core Keeper was released on Aug 27, 2024.
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