To The Core
Worth it · Narrative · 2023
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.29.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $1.23/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 1142 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.59, set in August 2023. It has gone on sale once in the 3 years tracked here, most recently in August 2023. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 163 weeks ago. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.29. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) and Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft (free, scores 77) both come in lower.
This site sampled 675 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 219 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Players
39 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 13:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
To The Core scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1988550/to-the-coreReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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