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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 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.06€ 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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Honestly, I've hesitated for a long time before buying this game due to mixed reviews. In the end I got it on sale with the DLC, and now I can confidently say I would not mind paying the full price for this. This is a very nice game with lots of content, and it's unfortunate that it didn't get more visibility. Some of the stuff I saw in the negative reviews ended up simply misleading. (For example, claims that the game is "buggy as hell" really made me hesitate before purchase. 17h of gameplay, and I have yet to see a single bug. Not saying that there aren't any, but "buggy as hell"? maybe not). Dwarf platform got a lot of negativity, but when I tried it for myself, I loved it. Etc, etc. UPDATE. After hitting 50h mark, I can't help but say that some of the reviews just genuinely baffle me. "Game is too slow" - and yet I find myself constantly hitting pause because managing a mine very quickly becomes nigh impossible for me otherwise. "You can't complete a run unless RNG stars align" - and yet for me the mine is riddled with tech and buff upgrades, and with rerolls I can always cook a working build. I've just unlocked difficulty 11 and I have yet to lose a single run... Perhaps they don't know that you can select 2 starting technologies (this let's you mitigates any downsides your platform has)? Are we even playing the same game? Oh well. For the would be buyers I'd really suggest trying the game for yourself for 2h and then deciding if you want to keep or to refund. This game seems to be one of those cases where relying solely on reviews isn't enough to decide if this is your cup of tea. As for me, I definitely got my money's worth.
I'm surprised by all the negative reviews about this game, but I guess to each his own. In my opinion this is one of the most enjoyable game I've played recently, the graphics is fun, sound is great and the game mechanics is brilliant. At its core it's a very simple game, but they managed to make it exciting, challenging and fun with all the creative choices of having different platforms, different type of weapons (energy, explosion, machine gun, etc.) and biomes. I also love that you don't have to invest weeks weeks to grind, you can just pick it up anytime, spend an hour or two to just relax a bit and make a little progress here and there. It's hard to put a finger on exactly why I adore this game, but I can honestly say, I do and I can highly recommend it. Also, congrats to the dev team, I know this seems like a simple game, but if someone has eyes for the details it's clear they're pros and they kept is simple intentionally, which was absolutely the right decision. If you'll keep releasing DLCs, I'll keep buying them, just keep up the creativity and the quality of the game.
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
Underrated gem of a game. Mine resources, build base, defend said base with turrets, repeat. Gameplay Loop Carefully manage your units during the day phase to ramp up your economy. If you don't do this properly, you can get too far behind and fail a run. It's more about micro managing a puzzle than it is a colony sim, but the unique challenges to each type of map make it varied and interesting. During night time, enemies attack, and it is very satisfying to see your turret builds come together to blast bugs. Lots of variety in terms of turret builds along with the roguelike mechanics. Meta Progression You earn resources from both successful and failed runs through mining, and the Upgrades feel meaningful. Not sure why other reviewers said you only improve by a small percentage, because it starts ramping up like a multiplicative effect the more you progress. There are multiple areas you can upgrade, each with their own unique improvements. You also get many small and big goals to work towards which makes progression engaging. You get to choose what new turrets you get to unlock, and are given a goal in order to unlock them. Possible Points of Friction - The early game can feel very challenging, and you will fail runs. Once you start to unlock upgrades, you can definitely feel the progress, though. - The UI is a bit confusing in some areas. Some of the upgrades are in weird places, such as the platform upgrade, and progression toward your "Department level" and "Division level". Also a few Unlock tooltips are not worded clearly. - Game may feel grindy at first. My Thoughts I'm about 28 hours in and still having a lot of fun playing the game, and I haven't finished it yet. Lots of difficulties and varieties of turrets and platforms to try out. The game is always giving you something to work toward along with a ton of variety. The amount of content is solid. My Score: 8/10
This is a great "half-focused" game. The kind of game you play while listening to audio book/podcast/video essay. I'm quite doubtful because I've read some negative review that said the selection of race/platform is basically the same. And after trying all the 3 available race, I'd come to the conclusion that saying all 3 available race is the same is like saying all the civ in Age of Empires is the same because they all gather resources, build building, and make military units (I've been jumping between drill core and AoE4 lol). The race/platform that you pick change your playstyle and tactic in a big way. Human are like the well balanced (typical), dwarf are expensive so you only bring a small crew which makes it easier to micro during night cycle (also works really well with resurrection building), the zerg crew (I know it's called swarnid, but it's zerg) are numerous, could be recruited without paying any resources, only took half population (1/4 pop of a dwarf), but everything else become more expensive. It's solid, I think what makes this game feels boring is when I over extend my drilling session (getting the 1km depth achievement). The monster are way too bullet sponge, the building are becoming way too expensive, everything just felt way too drawn out. The ideal way to finish a run is just getting all the challenge requirement and just calling it a day. For the mining-defense type of game, this one is a solid one. Didn't regret paying for this one (God knows how many tower defense game in the same price range that makes me so mad because of how half baked they are).
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Frequently Asked Questions
Drill Core is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
No, Drill Core is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
Yes, 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.
Yes, Drill Core is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Drill Core is not playable on MacOS.
No, Drill Core is not playable on Linux.
This information about Drill Core is not available yet.
This information about Drill Core is not available yet.
No, Drill Core does not support VR.
Drill Core is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 3 DLCs available for Drill Core. Explore additional content available for Drill Core on Steam.
No, Drill Core does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Drill Core does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, 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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Last Updates| Steam data | 27 August 2026 18:14 UTC |
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| Steam price | 11 September 2026 18:50 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 09 September 2026 05:54 UTC |
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Developer
Hungry Couch Games
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tinyBuild
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17 Jul 2025
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