Yes, you're trapped underground in the dark surrounded by horrors. But it's still perfectly lovely and chill.

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You can choose to place different monster floor tiles in a single space or place it in separate areas in your base.

Sure, Core Keeper horrified me when I knocked a wall down and a bunch of squirming, squeaking larvae jumped in my face.

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The early game is basically just punching through barriers and filling up your pockets. This digging allows you to excavate different regions and grow the map. But the opening belies much more complexity behind the rocky walls. Like in Valheim

Character creation doesn’t get too complicated, but you might hesitate over choosing your character’s Background and the perks that come along with it.

You’ll have goals in mind, sure — maybe you want to find a certain ore to craft a certain helmet with a certain perk before facing a boss — but it can be just as easy to pick a direction, any direction, and start tunneling.

Using your Pickaxe, break up the wood logs surrounding the Core. Craft a couple of basic Chests from your inventory and place them so you can store excess items. Then craft a Basic Workbench and interact with it.

When you fought Glurch, you may have noticed a bunch of orange slime on the ground. This is not just an environmental hazard — these tiles cause enemies to spawn.

, any equipped armor will take some durability damage. Any Core Keeper Gameplay items you had in your inventory (but not on your Hotbar) will be collected in a tombstone marking where you died.

Aside from the cosmetics, you'll also have to pick your "Background" which is an initial set of starting skills and equipment. Non-e of these bonuses are truly exclusive and you can eventually earn everything from all of the other Backgrounds.

Core Keeper is a strong survival game that can easily chew through the hours, providing a great balance between adventure and homesteading. There's a sense that no idea was left out, whether that be a constant pet companion or minecart rail lines, and while these may not get fully fleshed out, this is a rare occasion where quantity manages to make up for depth. The pet levels up and sometimes enemies drop treats that give it a nice experience boost, and that's all it needs to do.