Love planting and reaping the crops in Stardew Valley? At the same time, do you have enough courage to explore branching caves, collect materials and defeat bosses like in Terraria? Then maybe Core Keeper is right up your alley.
Developer Pugstorm’s indie game combines individual strengths of both games and lets you explore a huge network of caves with up to seven friends. You can already get a first glimpse in the trailer:
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Mine, build and fight in Core Keeper Early Access
Core Keeper: Terraria meets Stardew Valley im Early Access
In Core Keeper, you slip into the role of a self-created researcher who is looking for an ancient relic. This is the eponymous one the core
, which is in the middle of a procedurally generated cave. The problem? Nobody knows exactly what this core actually does.
Your goal is now to unravel the mysteries of the relic. To do this, you dig your way through the cave, mine minerals, collect various plant seeds, create new tools and better equipment, and regularly fight monsters. Even real bosses are waiting for you, which will hit you particularly hard if you’re not careful.
In Core Keeper, you can gradually make yourself at home – the angular structure reminds you a little bit of Dungeon Keeper.
You can do it all either alone or in co-op mode with up to seven players experience – since March 8, 2022 in Early Access on Steam. The scope looks like this:
- Single player and multiplayer support
- Over 140 items to find or craft
- Base building, forging, farming and cooking as activities
- Various biomes to explore
- 3 big bosses
- Mouse and keyboard support, as well as gamepads
Until the planned release, which is currently planned for the end of 2022, the developers want to add more biomes, enemies, bosses, items and story elements. In addition, the individual game mechanics should also be further refined in the early access phase.
Steam Reviews: On very positive
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The mix of Terraria and Stardew Valley is well received by Steam players. In the first few hours, Core Keeper was already able to over 12,000 concurrent players list – trending upwards, as Steam DB shows:
Steam player numbers are on the right track, as the SteamDB graph shows.
And the reviews also show a clear picture so far: 93 percent of 417 submitted user views turn out positive. As a result, Core Keeper currently stands at a rating of very positive
. Above all, the aspect that the game creates an exciting mixture of Stardew Valley and Terraria is praised.
the Steam users Janissary From Age of Empires 3
writes something like:
Basically Stardew Valley + Terraria had a baby and this is the offspring. It’s really fun with friends and I recommend the game if you’ve played either Minecraft, Terraria or Stardew Valley.
ThothReturns summarizes it similarly – but a little more pictorially and in more detail:
The best way to describe it is as if Stardew Valley and Terraria had a baby. And this baby grew up and got involved with Minecraft after prom. I don’t think they stayed together after they went to college… I mean they said they would try my long distance relationship but it just didn’t work out. Sometimes they think of each other…
There is also praise for the amount of content that the Early Access version already includes and for the technical condition. According to most reports, Core Keeper runs fairly flawlessly and without major problems. This also applies to the co-op mode, like acierocolotl mentioned:
Most importantly, it works well in co-op. I played the whole time in a co-op game with my buddy and everything went smoothly.
If you feel like Core Keeper, you should Look at Steam throw. On the occasion of the publication in Early Access, the indie game is available until March 15th for less than 12 dollars.
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What do you think of Core Keeper? Can the mixture of Terraria and Stardew Valley inspire you with a large co-op mode, or does the game concept leave you cold? Let us know what you think in the comments!
