definitely isn’t on that level, but the comparison kind of fits, albeit with an Early Access caveat to contend with. It’s not finished — but it’s really polished.

Wood will be the first resource you’ll come across, and that will be all you need to get going once your character pops out of their mysterious pod.

It’s pitch dark, so you’ll need to plop down some torches, keep an eye out for glimmering deposits to crack open, and consult your slowly materializing map from time to time.

Upgrade your arsenal and equipment with advanced tools like the mighty Obliteration Ray, and automated machinery to streamline mining, smelting, storage, and more. Level up your skills and unlock powerful weapons to conquer the depths.

Yeah, at $700 the PS5 Pro is expensive for a console, but I spent more than double that on my GPU alone

Don’t worry too much. It doesn’t really make a huge difference beyond the first hour or so, and if you sink a decent amount of time into Core Keeper

Once you’ve crafted the cooking pot at the workbench, you can combine ingredients to make dishes that increase your speed, max health, and even make you glow while they fill your health bar back up.

It’s a familiar cadence: use resources to beef up your base, craft items that help you explore further, gear up for the boss fight, make secondary bases, and improve the return routes to key areas. As the paths you’ve created grow more convoluted, you can rely on your map, which you’re able to pull out as an overlay.

The workbenches chain from one to the next, as players progress through biomes and their ores. There is pelo requirement to beat bosses, initially. The Core:

Illustration of biome, resource, workbench and boss progression. This guide is a walk-through for the necessary order of crafting and biome progression and suggested order of defeating bosses. It might be useful for new players planning ahead, or those checking back for content they've missed.

Hazzie & Nord present another amazing indie game! Hazzie had been wanting to play this one for a while and here we are playing Core Keeper. Core Keeper is an adventure sandbox game where players mine, build, and fight enemies and bosses.

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While the likes of Terraria and Valheim continue to hog headlines, Core Keeper offers strong competition. Its compelling gameplay, excellent art style, and extensive range of content make it worth diving in.

I only did the first 3 bosses, which anyone who has played the game will know that that Core Keeper Gameplay is a fairly small part of the game, and the defeat of the third boss unlocks a good chunk of the game. The first 2 bosses were a breeze, which we were able to defeat within the first try. They would unlock useful NPCs when killed, but their loot was often not altering the game in a meaningful way, a couple more inventory slots is all I can remember.