Drill Core

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Drill Core is a early access, strategy and colony sim game developed by Hungry Couch Games and published by tinyBuild.
Released on September 12th 2024 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean and Serbian.

It has received 1,033 reviews of which 881 were positive and 152 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 15.60€ on Steam and has a 20% discount.

The Steam community has classified Drill Core into these genres:

Early Access Strategy Colony Sim Rogue-lite Exploration Tower Defense Side Scroller Rogue-like City Builder 2D Base-Building Action Stylized Management Sandbox Sci-fi Space Building Aliens Resource Management

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: Windows 10 or newer
Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 or AMD FX-8350
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 710, 1 GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 1 GB
Storage: 1 GB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

EDIT: Windowed mode has been added! Saves are there! Love the game, totally recommended :) <<Old: pretty strange choice not to let people save inside the mission, mission could take long hours, and it is superfrustrating to drop the game that actually went very promising because you have to do some other stuff in your life. Also, please make Windowed mode, I can't move the game on my big secondary screen.>>

Sept. 2024

fun game but DESPERATELY needs an in progress save. You will make zero progress unless you can dedicate 1-2 hours to completing a level.

Sept. 2024

This game is miles ahead of domekeeper, wall world. and feed the deep. Drill Core as a game functions better in every single way. Obviously this is an opinion but one that i strongly stand by.

Sept. 2024

Little fun game with one MAJOR drawback - it's EXTREMELY time-consuming. Based on my experience, 150-200m run will take approximately 1~1.5 hours. If you want to go deeper and fulfill various qualifications - prepare to spend up to 3 hours per run. What's important - you CANNOT save mid-game. That's the biggest problem I can see with this game so far.

Sept. 2024

Updating my review a bit. Honestly, this game is better than the demo version. The upgrade system allows you to enhance your overall play style with your troops and your platform. The qualifications section is essentially "unlock buildings via challenges". Maybe the end ones are going to be tricky. But the overall qualifications progress is well balanced. And then we have the platform preset, another really thought out idea. Essentially if you have a preferred set of buildings and turrets, you can save up to 5 preferred buildings. this allows you to play with your favorites as well as try specific ideas out. Lastly, currently in early access, there are 2 types of maps "caverns and ice planet" and both have different monster and environmental designs that require different approaches and strategies. Well done devs. YOU NERDS

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