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4.6 out of 5
'Excellent'
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Core Keeper mine relics and resources to build your base, craft new equipment, survive, and power up the Core. Defeat giant monsters, discover hidden secrets, farm crops, cook new recipes and explore a procedurally generated underground world
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About Core Keeper
About this game
Core Keeper is a mining sandbox videogame published by Fireshine Games.
Protect Your Core
Players are tasked with keeping the core of their base protected from harm. The game features a variety of blocks and items that can be used to build structures and defenses, and players can team up with others to create massive fortifications. Core Keeper is a unique take on the mining genre, and it offers a challenging and rewarding experience for gamers who are looking for something new.
Play With Others
Your role doesn’t have to be a lonesome one, as you can play with up to seven players! Mine together, fight, farm, craft and survive — or take a break and check out their caverns instead. You might get inspiration to spruce up your own cavern!
Play Again And Again
With intuitive controls, Core Keeper is easy to pick up and play for anyone, yet offers a challenge that will keep even the most experienced gamers engaged. And with its procedurally-generated asteroids, no two gameplay experiences are ever the same. So come on over and join the fun! We guarantee you'll have a blast.
Game Details
- Platform:
- steam
- Release Date:
- March 08, 2022
- Developer:
- Pugstorm
- Publisher:
- Fireshine Games
- Supported Languages:
- English
- Genres:
- Adventure
Mining
Sandbox
Exploration
Building
Crafting
Survival
Casual
Dungeon Crawler
Cooking
Farming Sim
Open World Survival Craft
Simulation
- Play Styles:
- Online Co-Op
2D
Procedural Generation
Multiplayer
- Features:
- Online Coop
Full controller support
Singleplayer
Multiplayer
Co-op
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core i5, 2.27 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GT 330M
- Storage: 250 MB available space
Critic Reviews
Based on 10 Critics
PC Gamer
86 / 100"A sprawling survival game in a beautiful subterranean world."
TheSixthAxis
90 / 100"Core Keeper is a clever, challenging, and immensely enjoyable sandbox mining game that's a blast to play. You can completely change how you play for a new experience, there are...
The Games Machine
90 / 100"Engaging and exciting, Core Keeper is a perfect example of development and creativity. In addition to keeping you completely glued to the screen, with 1.0 it dramatically...
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Core Keeper Statistics
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>= 80 Hours
16.67%
Achievement Hunter?
16.67% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!
16.67% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!
Difficulty Statistics
Difficulty Rating
Simple
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Easy
13.64%
Just Right
59.09%
Tough
27.27%
Unforgiving
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Relax & enjoy! 59.09% of players consider this game to be Just Right
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Tried It
13.04%
Played It
30.43%
Halfway
8.7%
Beat It
34.78%
Conquered It
13.04%
Completionist! 13.04% of players have Conquered It
Core Keeper User Reviews
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51 - 58 of 65 Reviews
Fanatical User
Verified purchase
The Game is really unique. Dig through Walls and build your Halls. Find some ores and do your Chores. Have some fun and find the pun. Love this Game, without Feeling shame
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Disconformist
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It's exactly what you expect, which is a good thing. Find ores, upgrade, fight a boss, upgrade, fish, cook, upgrade some more. Great gameplay loop.
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Fanatical User
Verified purchase
I'm impressed with this game. Totally like stardew Valley with terarraria. I recommend this if you are into farming to building and combat. It's relaxing too in which I like too. Easy to learn as well. I give a 👍and 5 stars!!
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TheYes
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Solid game for early access, very worth the low cost. Game shows lots of room for expansion throughout its development.
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Slushpuppy
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The game is great for a survival game. Not overly complicated with to understand the tech tree and entertainment for hours. Allows a beginning boost with the class picks, but you can level everything by just playing. The classes are more for the early boost than being pigeonholed in a role. Overall it's a more relaxing environment for survival and I've had a lot of fun playing it so far with some friends. Would 100% recommend for players who want a more relaxed survival experience.
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Fanatical User
Verified purchase
Core keeper is fun and packed with content, for an early access title, it's well worth the price of admission.
From the exploration to the massive boss fights there is so much to be seen and done.
This game starts players out in a chamber and gives so much freedom to choose where to go and what to do, non-linear and full of secrets, it's very easy to get lost in the exploration and it is very worth it to scour the world for secrets.
If you're a fan of exploration, adventure, and well built game mechanics... Give Core Keeper a chance and it will surprise you for sure.
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FibreFoX
Verified purchase
This game seems to be a little gem. Despite of a missing tutorial (it is early access right now), it makes fun to crawl through the dungeon and find new things, enemies and mysteries.
For controller-players: right now there is a onscreen-keyboard missing, so when creating a new game, you will need to fill out some text-fields. But after that, controller-support seems to be okay.
I probably will play this game more and with friends, not yet tested mutliplayer-stuff, but I will (after nagging my friends to buy this early-access game) <3
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GM
Verified purchase
Very good game, it's only in early acces, but there is already hours of content. I played it for five hour with my friend and we didn't even beat the second boss. The only weakpoint is the lack of items, but the devs said they will fix that.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Somewhere in the middle. 14% of GameFAQs users said Core Keeper is Simple or Easy. 59% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right. 27% of GameFAQs users said Core Keeper is Tough or Unforgiving.
Yes, Core Keeper is Steam Deck Verified. Valve’s testing indicates that Core Keeper is Verified on Steam Deck. This game is fully functional on Steam Deck, and works great with the built-in controls and display.
- All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
- This game shows Steam Deck controller icons
- In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
- This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core i5, 2.27 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GT 330M
- Storage: 250 MB available space
The average playtime for GameFAQs users is 41 hours. 61% of users played Core Keeper for over 40 hours.
Yes, Core Keeper has broad critical consensus. 100% of critics on Metacritic recommend Core Keeper. The Metascore is 86 out of 100.
90% of Fanatical users recommend Core Keeper. The average review score is 4.6/5
Yes, 90% of Fanatical users and 100% of critics on Metacritic recommend Core Keeper.
Core Keeper was released on March 08, 2022
Core Keeper is published by Fireshine Games
Core Keeper was developed by Pugstorm
Fanatical users tagged Core Keeper as Adventure, Mining, Sandbox, and Exploration
Fanatical users tagged Core Keeper as Pixel Graphics, Mystery, Relaxing, and Atmospheric
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Core Keeper as having Online Co-Op
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Core Keeper as having Multiplayer
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Core Keeper as Adventure
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Core Keeper as Mining
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Core Keeper as Sandbox
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