Core Keeper Review (PlayStation 5)

Core Keeper Review, Awaken as an explorer in a long-forgotten cavern teeming with untold secrets. In this award-winning, 1-8 player mining sandbox adventure, your choices shape an epic journey. Harvest relics and resources, craft advanced tools, build your base, and explore a dynamically evolving world waiting to be unearthed.

Core Keeper Review Pros:

• Decent modern pixel art graphics.
• 675.1MB Download size.
• Platinum trophy. Comes with an additional base game trophy list.
• Display settings – Brightness slider, and color output (24 bit/15 bit/15 bit dither).
• Uses the controller speaker but is optional.
• Gameplay settings – screen shake, vibration, squash bugs, and override season.
• UI settings – show in-game Hud, show button hints, damage numbers, and show mini-map.
• Crafting survival gameplay.
• Two ways to play – offline single-player and online games.
• Host or join online games.
• Ten World save slots.
• Fifteen character save slots.
• World creation settings – name, save icon, game mode (standard/hard/creative/casual), world seed input, and settings (change from off/low/normal/high/extreme) for lakes, pits, ceiling holes, biome chaos, tunnels, chambers, rivers, and ore density.
• Two character types – normal and hardcore.
• Character creator options – body, skin, hair, hair color, eye color, shirt, pants, and background (ranger/mage/warlock/nomad/explorer/miner/fighter/chef/gardener/fisherman) which affect your starting perks amd you name your character.
• I’m game cutscenes, character interactions, and still art sequences.
• A 3D game world on a 2D character, and environment.
• You can pause the game in a single-player.
• Mined resources will pop up as you earn them.
• Doing an action over and over will level you up, so mining S lot will level up your mining stat.
• Full crafting model from basics being crafted in the menu to everything else requiring specific tables and items.
• You can just hold down the mine/attack button.
• The map uncovers as you explore, you have a main big map option and a mini-map on screen at all times.
• Save and exit option.
• The game plays a lot of light and dark. The world will always be dark and require light sources.
• Find and craft clothes that will add stats increases and/or buffs.
• Rarity levels to resources weapons, amd items.
• Different biomes house unique enemies and resources.
• Your character can wear a hat, top, bottoms, lantern, two rings, gloves neck, bag, and a pet.
• Three character slots for creating builds and having the ability to quickly change between them.
• Hot bar system with a simple drag-and-drop system for managing it.
• The bin icon in your inventory lets you bin items and resources instantly.
• As you level up actions you eventually get talent points to use the skill tree for each action.
• You have health, mana, and an energy bar.
• Full working farm creation can be had.
• A great sense of adventure.
• It’s a huge time killer.
• Very addictive.
• The game gives a lot of power to the player in the world creation and character development.
• Goes with the tried and tested flow of progression where you start with wood tools, then stone, copper, silver, etc.
• I like that you can mine with any item in your hand or without anything in your hand, tools just do it faster.
• Simple combat.
• The right stick can be used to help with building and placing tiles.
• Online supports up to 8 players.
• Massive boss encounters and devasting set pieces.
• You can craft vehicles.
• Kind of combines Terraria, Minecraft, and Stardew Valley into one cohesive experience.

Core Keeper Review Cons:

• No tutorials in any way.
• The controls take some getting used to.
• You cannot remap the controls.
• Takes a while to get the game going like building a base and farming etc.
• The lighting is cool but until you get the upgrades it’s a pain having to stop and place lights continuously.
• Couldn’t see any way to play local multiplayer.
• The character creator is very basic, plus you are so small that it doesn’t really matter.
• No camera settings.
• You cannot change the controller speaker volume in the game.
• Using the right stick is very sensitive and fiddly.

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Core Keeper:

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Developer: Pugstorm

Publisher: Fireshine Games

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