Action · August 27, 2024

Core Keeper (2024)

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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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Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume55.0k Steam reviewsTop 12% in Action
Positive rating93% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 24%
Metacritic85/100Genre average 77 — top 19% of Action titles
Concurrent peak3.7k playersTop 5% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours36 h averageTop 12% for session depth among Action

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Pixel Graphics · 959
  • Open World Survival Craft · 948
  • Online Co-Op · 947
  • Sandbox · 896
  • Survival · 805
  • Adventure · 735
  • Crafting · 695
  • Exploration · 665
  • 2D · 652
  • Building · 612
  • Mining · 591
  • Dungeon Crawler · 590
  • Procedural Generation · 547
  • Farming Sim · 531
  • Relaxing · 520

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Thai
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Spanish - Spain
  • French
  • Italian
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Russian

Reception Metrics

Steam community

93%Very Positive · 55.0k reviews

51.1k positive · 3.8k negative

Metacritic

85/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

45.5k

Peak concurrent players

3.7k

Press Quotes

“Clever, challenging, and immensely enjoyable... An ore-mining, boss-beating delight” 9/10 – TheSixthAxis “Worth every penny” 9/10 – TechRaptor “The ultimate game of exploration and discovery” 9/10 – GameSpew

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

36h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

16h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

8h

Current engagement

Achievements

51

Steam unlocks available

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op

Community

  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateAug 27, 2024
DeveloperPugstorm
PublisherFireshine Games, bilibili
Base price$11.99 -40%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksMetacritic page · Support · https://fireshinegames.co.uk/customer_support/core-keeper/

Editions & Packages

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