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I got to play Core Keeper this month because it’s included in Humble Choice, and I’m honestly glad that’s what pushed me to finally try it. I’d heard good things before, but once I actually started playing, it pulled me in much more than I expected. Core Keeper looks simple on the surface, but it’s surprisingly deep and easy to get hooked on.
The game starts you underground near a mysterious Core, with very little explanation. You begin with basic tools and slowly figure things out as you go, and that sense of discovery is one of the game’s biggest strengths. Digging through dark caves, lighting up new areas, and stumbling into new biomes felt genuinely exciting. Every time I thought I’d explored enough, the map opened up even more.
Progression feels natural and rewarding. You’re always working toward something, whether it’s better gear, stronger tools, or improving your base. I spent a lot of time organizing my underground base, setting up crafting stations, farms, and storage, and it never felt like busywork. It’s the kind of game where you log in to do one small thing and suddenly realize an hour has passed.
Combat adds just enough tension to keep things interesting. Enemies start out manageable but become more dangerous the deeper you go, which encourages preparation instead of rushing in. Boss fights were fun and gave a clear sense of progression when defeated. I also tried co-op, and exploring caves with friends made the experience even better, especially when splitting tasks or getting surprised by enemies together.
Visually, the pixel art is charming, and the lighting does a lot of heavy lifting to create atmosphere. The soundtrack is calm and relaxing, which fits the slow and steady pace of the game. That said, once you reach the later stages, things can start to feel a bit repetitive, especially if you’re playing solo and grinding for specific resources.
Overall, Core Keeper is a cozy and addictive survival game that does a lot with a simple idea. Getting it through Humble Choice made it an easy recommendation for me, and it’s definitely a game I’m happy I didn’t skip. If you enjoy exploration, crafting, and building at your own pace, Core Keeper is well worth your time.
Core Keeper is a top down survival game along the lines of Terraria except you start in the underground. There are multiple biomes to get through, each with their own bosses and residents you can move into your settlement. As expected of a survival game, there’s food and hunger to worry about, which introduces a farming and cooking aspect that gives buffs that you can take advantage of. There’s also animal herding and raising, bringing a bit of Harvest Moon and broadening the genre enough to let it interest some of your cozy gamer friends.
While the main focus is to get through the biomes and bosses, it should still be viable for them to have a less combat focused playthrough by focusing on farming, cooking, fishing, mining, and building. Eventually the biomes get far enough that making the trek would take a long time, so you might want someone to build railways while you’re off exploring, for example. Alternatively they could start their own projects and go all in on decorations and building a huge slime farm that end up lagging everyone when they pass through (speaking from experience here).
Graphics wise, I do think Core Keeper’s a really pretty game. The lighting effects are beautiful, and when I first came across water I was just standing there for a minute trying to find something to do with it. The first area’s pretty droll, with it just being dirt and more dirt, but as you progress you’ll eventually come across more diversified biomes (and enemies) like forests. The first few areas are going to be rough for bug haters, with the majority of enemies and bosses being some kind of insect, but the enemies do get a little more diversified later on, though you might come across reskins of the previous enemies.
Overall, Core Keeper is an excellent game that’s still getting major updates even after its 1.0 release. It makes it a little hard for me to get into solo personally, since I usually only play games until finish once, but with friends it’s a little more doable for me since things are spaced out by sessions.
I really like the game, good combination of other games where you can build your base, adventure and explore other areas, many different bios with boss fights. I have played it multiple times during the different early access phases, after release and also with friends. Progression and skill points are not overcomplicated. Different classes and weapons are also creating a diverse gameplay experience. It is fun also in solo gameplay. I can fully recommend this game, pricing also good. It’s worth to grab it and play it.
Core Keeper is an incredibly fun sandbox adventure that’s easy to get lost in. The cozy pixel art, relaxing music, and satisfying gameplay loop make exploring the underground world feel both chill and exciting.
Mining, crafting, farming, and fighting all flow together really well, so it never feels tedious. There’s always something new to discover, whether it’s a hidden biome, a boss fight, or an upgrade that makes you feel stronger.
It’s great solo, but even better with friends—co-op turns it into a cozy chaos adventure where hours disappear without you noticing. If you enjoy exploration, base-building, and games that let you go at your own pace, Core Keeper is absolutely worth playing.
Highly recommend. 💛
I play this game with my wife, really awesome, it can be duo easily and lots of fun, some bosses are difficult and they need strategy, the game design is really great, I like the graphic style and the gameplay.
Lots of updates from devs added lots of features but NEED MORE xD
I really liked the progress of the resources and features to gain passively that in the end game without the boring farming of it in the end.
Core Keeper is one of those rare games that sneaks up on you. You load it up expecting a cozy little mining sim—and suddenly it’s 2 a.m., your farm is thriving, your base has mood lighting, and your friend is yelling over Discord because they accidentally aggroed a giant glowing worm.
It’s like Stardew Valley had a baby with Terraria and raised it in a cave filled with bioluminescent fungus. You start small: dig, craft, survive. But the more you explore, the more it opens up—ancient tech, massive bosses, rail systems, gardening, fishing, breeding slimes. The progression feels organic, and everything feeds into everything else. Farming gives you food buffs. Mining leads to better gear. Exploration uncovers lore and weird new biomes. It’s all connected.
But what really sells it is how satisfying it feels. The digging sound? Perfect. The lighting system? Atmospheric in the best way. The combat? Surprisingly intense when things get dark (literally and figuratively). And the game’s got just enough mystery to keep you curious without holding your hand.
I started Core Keeper after a friend gifted it on a whim. Within a week, we had a whole underground empire going. He handles farming. I build train stations. Another friend just collects furniture for his “cave cabin.” Everyone finds their role, and it works beautifully.
It’s charming, rewarding, and dangerously addictive.
Core Keeper filled a big void for me after finishing Terraria. The game’s progression was one that felt rewarding enough to keep going. A simple ‘defeat the boss and go further out’ felt really relaxing and well designed enough to keep the game fresh. The different ways of combat or classes also made it all too interesting. With the release of 1.0 it gave me and my partner a nice end to a story we very much loved experiencing!
This game is addicting! It’s such a satisfyingly fun sandbox adventure full of collecting and exploring! When you level up and unlock a new tool, ability, piece of gear or recipe it’s really exciting! The pixel art is so charming and I really love the colour schemes used, very relaxing on the eyes but still very colourful and fun! They update the game very regularly and hold nice events! The bosses are really fun and there’s a great sense of mystery as you explore and try to find them!
The game is a chill experience that gives you a sense of exploration, adventure, and development. It’s great to play with friends. For where the game is at in its development life, it’s amazingly well made and more complete than I have come to expect early access to look like. I’d say this game is more complete in its early stage than some games are at their alpha launch. What it offers you is well made, beautiful, and extremely feature packed when full version releases. I think it’s a great option to spend time with friends. You can take a look.
Definitely worth it.
8/10.
If you like games like Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and Terraria, then Core Keeper is for you. I usually struggle to get into new games and have a hard time sticking to it but Core Keeper is such a great game. I can’t recommend it enough. Even in Early Access, there are so many options for you. You want adventure? Go fight slimes, cavelings, and larva! Do you want to just farm and make potions? That’s totally an option for you! Do you love turning off your brain and exploring new biomes? Then go for it! Core Keeper is for adventurers, farmers, explorers, and warriors. Not to mention, you can play with up to 8 people per world, and in game music is just so relaxing and I love the whole vibe of the game, hands down core keeper is one of the greatest indie games out. Unfortunately, community is still small but I can see after 1.0 update it will become big.
The best part is, this is just the beginning. The developers have so much more in store for this game and they’re constantly keeping us updated on their Discord channel. I had high hopes for this game and I wasn’t at all disappointed. With that said, it’s important to remember that the game is in Early Access at the time I’m posting this so, as with all games, there will be bugs here and there. If you notice a bug, you can report it to the developers to help them with the next update.
In August, core keeper also coming out of Early Access. I’m looking forward to more updates and DLCs.
The motto of Core Keeper is to Dig, dig, dig
If you are digging games fan like Minecraft or Terraria, then Core Keeper will be a cake walk for you. It’s really simple to play compared to Minecraft or Terraria in my honest opinion. I’ve played it for around 9 hours now in single player. You can dig anywhere, any direction, there’s so much freedom, you also have to find bosses to fight. I will repeat the keyword “FIND”. The underground world of Core Keeper is No Joke! After a while you may find this game boring and repetitive. You may lose your motivation and curiosity to dig and discover.
All i want to say is don’t lose hope and keep that grind going. I’m telling you this from my Single Player perspective. The game will reward you. You have to just keep going.
8/10
I recommend playing with your friends. You won’t feel how time went so fast. It’s a cool game for sure 🙂
Been playing Core Keeper since its launch as early release and currently right now capping about 200 hours. This pixel graphic game is worth the praise as it is well maintained, plus it is smooth as the sea waves lol. I played with my friends multiple times as well, if i am not wrong it is 10 times already.
I’ve played Core Keeper for about 80-90 hours. I didn’t find any critical bugs or crashes. It’s really smooth.
As I mentioned above, it’s a pixel graphic game but consumes my computer resources more than I expected.
It’s pretty fun playing with friends!
Core Keeper is a survival game set underground.
The game starts with a cut scene where you and a group of explorers find a mysterious glowing rock. Upon touching the rock you (and if you play online, your friends) get teleported away to what seems to be an old underground civilization.
The main goal of the game is to dig, upgrade and defeat bosses who have an item to reactivate that rock and teleport you back to where you came from.
At first, it feels pretty overwhelming since you can dig in all directions but you quickly find out that Core Keeper thought ahead and layered its biomes in a really smart way. At the start of the game you can only enter three different biomes each having a new ore type in it.
In the spawn area, you can only find copper and you find out once you start digging the one of the other two biomes is too hard to mine with your copper pickaxe. (I mean you can, but good luck mining 1 block every minute.)
Once you upgraded a bit you probably have seen at least one of the bosses and decide to attack them. Upon defeating them you get a special item that powers one of the three statues near the core. Each statue can give you something else upon powering it up. Here is hoping you got the slime boss since the items that statue gives can track the other two bosses. But it most likely is another boss that is roaming around since that one is a lot easier to find since he is not hidden away in a small room but instead tunnels through the earth in a large circle around the core.
After having powered the three statues the core activates. it is not strong enough to send you back yet and gives you the power to break the seal that is around the area. Once you broke the seal more of the game opens up.
This is also the point where you can start automating a lot of the ore gathering tasks with drills, robot arms and conveyor belts. Sadly there is a loading limited so you can not drill ore from the new biomes and get it all the way back at your core base. Here is where I hoped you could have a way to set a new spawn point because even if you set up a new base in a other area if you die or use a recall orb you get send back to the core.
There is a lot more to do than just digging and fighting bosses. This is of course the main thing you will be doing in Core Keeper. there are also other activities such as fishing, cooking, growing plants and alchemy. (And listening to a pretty good soundtrack.)
Core keeper is a lot of fun with friends and the later bosses are a true challenge even with the maxed out gear from that area.