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Return from Core

75% positive of 1,629 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by 顽核社. Published by 2P Games, Shochiku.

About the game

Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.

Tagged by players

  • Automation
  • Base Building
  • Dating Sim
  • Mining
  • Survival
  • Crafting
  • Sandbox
  • Farming Sim
  • Dungeon Crawler
  • Building
  • Action RPG
  • Cartoony

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Return from Core is an imaginative underground survival adventure that blends resource gathering, base building, automation, exploration, and character relationships into an entertaining sandbox experience. Developed by 顽核社 FuncoreClub and published by 2P Games and Shochiku, the game presents a world where humanity has been driven beneath the surface following the destruction of civilization. Rather than focusing…

    16 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    This game has a decent chunk of good concepts and ideas in place that I can see in the game. however the game is so rough around those concepts and is clearly unfinished. I had multiple times where the characters says something like "remember this promise I made you _____" and I have no idea what they are talking about since it never happened in the story, where you just have to assume that like 1/2 of the cutscenes…

    32 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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