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Drill Core

84% positive of 2,140 Steam reviews

Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam, PlayStation

Made by Hungry Couch Games. Published by tinyBuild.

About the game

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?

Tagged by players

Colony Sim
Tower Defense
City Builder
Side Scroller
Base Building
Roguelite
Roguelike
Strategy
Exploration
Management
Sandbox
Space

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What players say

Recommended
Fun and very satisfying ! A digging game meets a tower defense, with some roguelite elements, I personally couldn't ask for more. Various biomes (with different enemies and events), platforms/races to dig, a vast variety of weapons and building, a stats/perks progression system.. It might be a bit time consuming for some, but it definitely hit the right spot with me ! I want more
107 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Superb, with much more variety/variants than I expected at the start of Early Access. This is one of the very very few EA titles that I not only enjoyed in the earliest stages of EA . . . but also ended up playing quite a bit (still in the midst) after 1.0. Great game.
27 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Its time I start reviewing things this game made me feel the need to write and that's because I am conflicted. I played this game on steam deck which makes micromanaging everything more of a chore than fun so maybe I will have to update when I play on pc and have a bigger screen but the micromanagement here for me wasn't fun? There's three areas of management a tower defense area, the town on your little platform…
1.7 h played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 0 found it helpful.
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