Drill Core
Fair · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $12.99, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 25%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 18.1h
- Value
- $0.72/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 35% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 25% ($14.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 35% ($12.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GT 710, 1 GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 1 GB, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 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
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was April 2026. It has been discounted 22 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $12.99 at 35 percent off still sits 30 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 38 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tower Factory ($11.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Kingdom Eighties ($11.99, scores 37).
6 of the 626 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 143 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
96% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
51 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 12:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It is ok micromanagement+autobattler merger. Different scenarios and missions adds some differences to the runs. But it gets pretty repetative and you start to feel as routine as these miners. Additional minus for metaprogression, ew.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Drill Core scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2821800/drill-coreReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 2.
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