Core Keeper
Last updated: 2025-04-12
- Rewarding exploration, building, and crafting freedom.
- Charming, high-quality pixel art style.
- Fun, rewarding cooperative multiplayer experience.
- Automation streamlines resource gathering/crafting.
- Repetitive, grindy, unrewarding boss fights.
- Clunky combat, limited weapon variety.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 70%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 30%
- Protest reviews
- 0%
- 88%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 12%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 3739
- Negative points
- 2082
- Gameplay points
- 773
- Perf. points
- 63
- Rec. points
- 986
- Misc points
- 137
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Rewarding exploration, building, crafting freedom | The game emphasizes exploration, building, and crafting in a vast, procedurally generated world. Players appreciate the freedom to build bases, gather resources, fight enemies, and explore diverse biomes. The game rewards exploration with new content, secrets, and a sense of progression, drawing comparisons to Terraria and other sandbox games. | 97% |
| Charming, high-quality pixel art style | The game features charming pixel art graphics with detailed environments, impressive lighting and water effects, and well-designed characters and enemies. Reviewers consistently praise the game's visual style, noting its nostalgic appeal and modern polish. The soundtrack and sound design also contribute to the immersive atmosphere. | 69% |
| Fun, rewarding cooperative multiplayer | The game offers a fun and rewarding multiplayer experience, allowing players to collaborate on exploration, base-building, and combat. The game supports up to 8 players, encouraging specialization and teamwork. The ability to upgrade gear and customize characters adds depth to the cooperative gameplay. | 44% |
| Accessible, rewarding progression system | The game features an accessible and rewarding progression system, with intuitive leveling and clear goals. Players appreciate the balance between challenge and accessibility, making it easy to pick up and play while still offering depth and complexity. The game also includes quality-of-life features that enhance the overall experience. | 44% |
| Blends elements from popular games | The game successfully blends elements from popular sandbox games like Terraria, Stardew Valley, and Minecraft, creating a unique and engaging experience. Reviewers appreciate the combination of exploration, crafting, farming, and combat, noting that the game stands on its own despite the similarities. | 40% |
| Automation streamlines resource gathering/crafting | The game features automation elements that streamline resource gathering and crafting, reducing grind and increasing convenience. Players can automate tasks like ore extraction, smelting, and farming, creating a mini-Factorio experience. The game also offers a variety of other activities, including base-building, exploration, and combat. | 35% |
| Captivating, addictive, relaxing experience | The game is described as captivating, addictive, and relaxing, with a beautiful soundtrack and charming visuals. Reviewers note that the game evokes a sense of wonder and provides a welcome escape from stress. The game is also praised for its ability to make time fly by and create lasting memories. | 32% |
| Immersive world, beautiful soundtrack | The game features a beautiful and immersive world with varied biomes, each with its own unique soundtrack and atmosphere. The music enhances the exploration experience, creating feelings of curiosity, comfort, tension, and fear. The sound design is also well-done, with ambient sounds that reinforce the immersion. | 15% |
| Upgrade any item, regular updates | The game allows players to upgrade any item throughout the entire game progression, improving its stats and keeping it viable. The reinforcement system fixes equipment degradation by allowing infinite repairs and reinforcements with materials. The game receives regular updates that address balance issues and add new content. | 12% |
| Easy, smooth, fun multiplayer | The game is easy to play with friends using "Game ID" sharing, and the smooth multiplayer enhances the fun. The ability to quickly move to other servers and ingame chat support makes it easy to communicate. Playing with friends is enjoyable and doubles the fun. | 11% |
| Pets, breeding, farming, animals | The game features a pet system where players can hatch eggs found in the cavern, with 11 different pets each having unique abilities and behaviors. Players can also breed animals that provide additional perks and level up with the player. The game is full of decorative elements and tasks like cultivating, collecting, and adopting animals. | 10% |
| Water reflections, fishing, farming | The game features working water reflections that react to world shaking or fishing, and the reviewer enjoyed the fishing minigame. The game combines combat, farming, fishing, and exploration, and the developers listened to community feedback regarding issues like the fishing mechanic and inventory management. | 9% |