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Awaken beneath the surface, mine and craft to explore biomes, build a base, and battle bosses alone or with up to seven others.
Released 27 Aug 2024
Mine a Vast Cavern
Automate Ore Mining
Build Cave Railways
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Developed by Pugstorm · Published by Fireshine Games, bilibili
You awaken as an explorer in a vast underground world surrounding an ancient Core. Dig through dark caverns, gather resources, and uncover distinct biomes, creatures, relics, and traces of earlier civilizations.
Mining and exploration feed a progression loop: craft better tools and equipment, develop skills through your actions, and take on bosses as you push into new areas. You can also build machinery to automate tasks such as mining, smelting, and moving resources.
Make an underground base your own with rooms, furnishings, and collected materials. Alongside exploration and combat, you can grow crops, fish, cook, and care for animals. Play solo or cooperate online with up to seven other players.
In the supplied reviews, players often enjoy the sense of discovery in exploring new biomes, finding resources, and gradually expanding their capabilities. Many also value the freedom to build and decorate a base, divide activities with friends in co-op, and settle into a satisfying mining-and-crafting loop. Some reviewers say that the loop becomes repetitive or grind-heavy later on, and that combat balance and rewards can make continued progression less satisfying.
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.
| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
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| Achievements | 55 |
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| Players | 1–8 |
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| Multiplayer | Core Keeper supports solo play and online cooperative multiplayer for 2-8 players, with the store copy also describing the game overall as a 1-8 player experience. It supports drop-in/drop-out online co-op and dedicated servers. The provided information does not mention PvP, LAN, local co-op, or splitscreen support; one review explicitly says there is no split screen co-op. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Mods are supported, including native mod support via mod.io according to one review. One review states modded games can get mixed with the original game, indicating mods may affect shared worlds or progression. No official details here state any dedicated multiplayer mod limitations or features. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 86/100 View on Metacritic |
