Drill Core

84% positive of 2,140 Steam reviews

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam, PlayStation

Made by Hungry Couch Games. Published by tinyBuild.

About the game

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?

What sets it apart

Colony Sim
Tower Defense
City Builder
Roguelite
Base Building
Roguelike
Side Scroller
Exploration
Management
Strategy
Stylized
Sandbox

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Drill Core

84% positive of 2,140 Steam reviews

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Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam, PlayStation

Made by Hungry Couch Games. Published by tinyBuild.

About the game

What sets it apart

Colony Sim
Tower Defense
City Builder
Roguelite
Base Building
Roguelike
Side Scroller
Exploration
Management
Strategy
Stylized
Sandbox

What players say

Recommended
Fun and very satisfying ! A digging game meets a tower defense, with some roguelite elements, I personally couldn't ask for more. Various biomes (with different enemies and events), platforms/races to dig, a vast variety of weapons and building, a stats/perks progression system.. It might be a bit time consuming for some, but it definitely hit the right spot with me ! I want more
107 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Superb, with much more variety/variants than I expected at the start of Early Access. This is one of the very very few EA titles that I not only enjoyed in the earliest stages of EA . . . but also ended up playing quite a bit (still in the midst) after 1.0. Great game.
27 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
It's really unfortunate that I cannot say the game as a whole clicks together, because the moment-to-moment gameplay is actually very fun. Clearing out mines, micromanaging to work around the special block threats, making decisions on which technologies to get and which defences to set up, it all works very well. The problem is that on a structural level, there is no pressure to do all that well in any of those…
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