Return from Core

Dig, explore, build, farm, automate, and meet charming Monster Girls in this sandbox RPG. Build your camp, plant crops, set up automated production lines and prepare for an unforgettable adventure!

Return from Core is a crafting, survival and automation game developed by Tanxun Studio and published by 2P Games.
Released on December 15th 2023 is available only on Windows in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 946 reviews of which 719 were positive and 227 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 16.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Return from Core into these genres:

Crafting Survival Automation Base-Building Sandbox Singleplayer Early Access Adventure Dungeon Crawler Building Exploration Mining Simulation RPG Farming Sim Action RPG Combat Action-Adventure Economy Anime

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64 bit
Processor: Intel Core i3-3240 (2 * 3400); AMD FX-4300 (4 * 3800)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 4 GB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

Take my life-saving advice and complete all the "story" tutorial missions for level 1-3 FIRST; I was playing minecraft when instead the actual game was supposed to be satisfactory, being able to make components in minutes rather than painstakingly take hours to make a house. It took me twelve hours of running around trying to make a nice house that I realized you were SUPPOSED to do the quests first. Although I guess you could say this is a positive since the tutorial blends into the gameplay so seamlessly it was impossible for me to tell that I was actually still doing a tutorial.

June 2024

First and foremost I want to say to the devs that although many of the reviewers dismiss the English translation as laughable and funny I think that it's probably the biggest problem with the game in its current state because a lot of potential players will likely be immediately turned off by how confusing it can be early on even before the automation quest starts. The game so far reminds me of Core Keeper and Keplerth with a bit more focus on automation. There are some hefty pacing issues with the early game grind and like I said before the English translation makes figuring out some of the quests and what to do difficult but it's been more than interesting enough to hold my attention. The concept, visual style and core gameplay are enough to warrant giving this game a chance in my opinion especially for the price. If the devs can focus a little more on localization and getting some exposure for this game I think it could easily give other games in the genre a run for their money. It's a shame this is so far a hidden gem. I would really hate to see this go the way of other similar games like Keplerth (I still love Keplerth!) where development just took a dive due to lack of sales and NOT because of quality. I honestly don't even know why I'm just now finding out about this game! It randomly came up in my discovery queue yet I'm constantly looking for games similar to this with no luck.

June 2024

Awesome game really like the graphic style and gameplay. Also fellow Deckers it runs great on deck👍🏻

March 2024

Excellent game for a resource management game even in early access state. The good: - Addictive game play for this genre. Once you reach the -factory- stage, it is addictive to gather resources just to make more. - The Monster girls are nice. A little more character development would be even better. - Really enjoyable graphics and music. The point to improve: - The UI still has some issues/bugs here and there but nothing game breaking. - Might be nice to simplify the keyboard UI. Right now I find myself pressing "TAB" to navigate through item boxes and my own inventory and sometimes menus kind of stack and become a little irresponsive. I know the ideal to exit a menu is with ESC however is not a comfortable key binding. - The only thing that bothers me a little is that in the english translation the speech bubbles many times are not big enough to display all text. - The girls are supposed to have side quests to improve the relationship numbers but Lilith and Rat girl pretty much never trigger quests, unsure if this is intended or I missed something. Overall and excellent game I recommend and hopefully the points I mention can be addressed later.

Feb. 2024

Right now, barely recommend. Assuming development continues well, definitely recommend. Not that far in yet but the only complaint I have is the English translations/dialog is very rough. Broken English most of the time which would be completely fine for a translated early access but frequently the text doesn't fit in the text boxes. Combat is the highlight that gets it a recommend even with the text issues. Nothing too complex, just somewhat unique being able to throw your pick. Also a chest button with "pull all similar items from inv" is a very nice QOL addition.

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