Core Keeper
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99. Typically $11.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.52/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 68,428
- Critics
- 86 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 38.8h
- To 100%
- 121.1h 3.1x the story
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 38 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $9.59 January 2024
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,015 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
64% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 38 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Terraria ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 66).
$36.62 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Core Keeper
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,882 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
38.8 hours to finish it, 121 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 17 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Pro: 1. Beautiful pixel graphics 2. Large builds variety. There are a lot (now even more with the latest patch) items in the game, that you can use to create varied builds for all your needs. They might not all be the meta, but sometimes it feels like you level up too fast to enjoy all the builds you can make at different game stages. Even so, you can level up items so they become viable even in the end game! 3. It...
2 more reviews
Invited friends to play the game. Plays game with friends. Me and friends had fun. Lots of mobs and bosses. Relaxing music 10/10. Finished the game in a week. Never played again. New update released. Plays again. Repeat.
YOU CAN RIDE A BABY T REX!!! This game is so fun to explore, I really loved all the different boss fights they bring a different challenge to each one. I love that you can get a ton of buffs stacked before a fight. It's so fun to find a new biome or animal. The different areas were challenging but not punishing. YOU CAN HAVE PETS! There's farming, cooking and fishing. You can get a ton of neat collectible items to...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 460 / Radeon HD 5850. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Core Keeper scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1621690/core-keeperReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.