Core Keeper

Core Keeper is a solid sandbox game with hours of content and replayability perfect for those looking to deep dive into a new title.

A game about wonder and discovery, it's hard to find fault with Core Keeper — as long as you're happy not to have your hand held. You'll need to figure everything out for yourself, but that's part of the joy. Whatever type of player you are, whether you want to focus on exploration and combat or build your own ecosystem, Core Keeper caters for you thanks to its huge amount of content.

Minecraft meets Valheim in top-down survival crafting sandbox Core Keeper.

Trapped in a cave with no way out, the only real option is to convert the monster-infested depths into a comfy home.  Build a house, garden, fish, scavenge, and mine to get better tools, and beat on monsters to maybe eventually escape the sprawling subterranean map.

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. Switch version reviewed. Review copy provided by company for testing purposes.

I think the biggest praise I can give to the game is that I cannot wait to dig into it with a few friends over the coming weeks. It's the kind of game you can slowly chip away at over several evenings and the hardcore mode even offers some replayability down the line. While it doesn’t reinvent the wheels of its genre, Pugstorm’s Core Keeper emerges confidently out of early access and I’m looking f...