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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 July 17th 2025 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 1,329 reviews of which 1,132 were positive and 197 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.62€ on Steam with a 25% discount, but you can find it for 7.09€ on Gamivo.
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- 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
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One of my favorite singleplayer games, the progression is fun, lots of replay value, and betatesting was a joy to parttake in! I'm happy to see how great the full version turned out to be, all issues I had with the beta have been solved, congrats dev team! :) If you like games where you get some metaprogression after each mission and have a large variety of difficulty modes and equipment combinations, you will like playing Drill Core! Become a shareholder today! XD It takes a long while to unlock everything, but unlocking things is a core part of what's fun in this game :D
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Drill Core was a very pleasant surprise when I first tried it out about a year ago during a Steam Next Fest. Back then it didn't have the same amount of stuff as it does today, but even then I could see the potential for many hours of fun that this game had. I've been playing it on and off over the course of its time in Early Access, and now that it has hit 1.0, I feel it's the right time to write a review for it. This game is a session-based management game where you manage a team of diggers while descending into the deep on a large mining platform, collecting resources to upgrade your platform with various upgrades that makes your personnel faster, stronger, more resilient, while also fitting out the platform with various guns, cannons, lasers, and mine deployers in order to protect you from the incoming hostile fauna that shows up during the night. The sheer amount of different buildings and gun platforms in this game is staggering to say the least, and all of them work in their own unique and interesting way. There's a lot of creativity on display, and due to the random nature of each session, you'll never end up with exactly the same setup on each run. The game has many elements of Rogue-likes, but thanks to its lengthy sessions and ability to "check out" of a run fairly early, it doesn't *feel* like a Rogue-like, does that make sense? Like, in most other rogue-likes you get a random upgrade after a clearing a wave of enemies, and the amount of upgrades you get is usually only a handful, unless it's the type that can go on for a really long time. And in most other Rogue-likes you're almost always on the edge of failure if you make just a few mistakes. Drill Core is very different in this regard, as it is very generous with the amount of upgrades you can get throughout just one run, and there's so much meta-progression for you to unlock, that your mining platform starts out quite strong, even on the hardest difficulty. So if you crack the code on how to do well in the early game, the rest of the game can potentially become a cakewalk if you're smart with the upgrades you find. An obvious parallel to draw to Drill Core is, of course, Dome Keeper, as both of these game have the same basic premise: You drill down and mine resources and upgrades by day, and defend against monsters coming from above by night. Rinse-repeat until you hit the goal and then you peace out. The difference between these two games is, however, that Dome Keeper has you control a single individual doing all the mining and defending yourself, while Drill Core lets control a whole team of dudes, or dwarves, or bugs, depending on which platform you decide to use, and Dome Keeper is also very minimalist with a muted color scheme, while Drill Core is far more colourful and vibrant, and has a far bigger array of enemy types, soil block types, upgrades, and more. Both games have a pixel graphics style that lend themselves well to both games, but I think I prefer the more interesting looks of Drill Core. Comparison to other games aside, the gameplay in Drill Core is the "easy to learn, hard to master" kind, where early game can be a bit frustrating, but as you learn the ropes and unlock upgrades, the game becomes easier to grasp, and you get a very nice sense of progression. Every meta-upgrade feels significant and worth the investment, and it makes the later difficulties possible to beat, because they do get incredibly hard. The three biomes you drill through are also varied and distinct. The normal rock type, the ice world type and jungle world type all have their own unique enemy types and block types which makes tackling each biome its own challenge. For instance, the ice world has ice blocks that freeze your personnel solid and if they fall too far down, they'll shatter and die, and the jungle world has "living" blocks that will randomly move around and crush any personnel in their path. The normal rock world has lava geysers that spews fire everywhere, lighting your dudes on fire and killing them if you're not careful, so you have to micro-manage them so they remove these blocks from the one angle where they don't spew fire. And these kinds of blocks can potentially make or break an entire run if you're particularly unlucky. I've had a few runs where a falling sand block completely wiped out all my drillers, and I had no resources to make new ones, so I had to bail and restart the run. Very annoying, but also kind of my own fault for not watching where they were drilling. This is the kind of hectic micro-managing gameplay you'll deal with during the day time. At night, it's an entirely different ballgame, as the locals will descend the mine shaft to destroy your core, and you have to make sure your defenses are good enough to withstand the onslaught. You also get the opportunity to use "active abilities" during both day time and night time, and these usually come in the shape of gun turrets, or turret boosters, or deployable drones, and they can save your butt if a new type of enemy just breezes through your defenses and makes mincemeat of your core. I've had several runs that barely made it through a night because a gun turret came in clutch and allowed me to wipe out a specific enemy type. As you can see by the gameplay time, I've spent around 75 hours on this game, and I feel like I've gotten my money's worth and then some, because I'm not done unlocking everything yet, and I'm also not max level yet (I'm currently level 41 out of 50), but I've had a lot of fun during all those 75 hours (except the one time where I had a challenge to complete a run without losing a single worker, which was unbelievably frustrating because of the "instant death" nature of some of the blocks in the caves), and for that, I can whole-heartedly recommend this to anyone who wants a session-based management game with heavy rogue-like elements and a craving for digging deep and greedily.
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Great game. I can't understand the negative comments about how the game becomes repetitive: the technology mechanic combined with the contracts mechanic makes every game unique imho. I've played about 60 hours, and while the mining part can be a bit repetitive, I have not yet done the same build twice. The game certainly still has some (minor!) flaws, but as an Early Access Version this is a 10/10.
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I dont know about this one... I loved the first 10 hours of it, so many good and satisfying ideas... Then it became too repetitive... Day and Night operations are mostly the same no matter how deep you dig, no matter what planet you are at. The late game is also not clear at all so I'm not entirely sure what I'm aiming at anymore... I really lost the desire to play it after 10h of gameplay. But it's still very well done and also looks really cool. I'd recommend it if on sale.
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I had this game in my wishlist for a while and after yet another major update(Departments) I decided to give it a try and let me tell you,im quite glad I did. I wouldnt go as far as to say that this game is exceptional or one of a kind but thats the game that is 100% worth its money,ESPECIALLY on sale. It has about everything u paying for - satisfying game loop thats not too repetitive,u get the sense of progression with different upgrade trees,many difficulty levels to manage through and various maps,each of which has its own enemies\traps\shenanigans to expect. Solid 7-8\10 game given that its not yet complete,according to the roadmap the most interesting changes are yet to come.
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Drill Core is currently priced at 14.62€ on Steam.
Drill Core is currently available at a 25% discount. You can purchase it for 14.62€ on Steam.
Drill Core received 1,132 positive votes out of a total of 1,329 achieving a rating of 8.11.
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Drill Core was developed by Hungry Couch Games and published by tinyBuild.
Drill Core is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Drill Core is not playable on MacOS.
Drill Core is not playable on Linux.
Drill Core is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Drill Core. Explore additional content available for Drill Core on Steam.
Drill Core does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Drill Core does not support Steam Remote Play.
Drill Core is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Hungry Couch Games
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17 Jul 2025
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