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I performed over 40 hours of co-op survival recreation Core Keeper when it first arrived in early entry in 2022, and I am about to dive again in for 40 extra. Or extra! That is as a result of the subterranean sandbox graduated to model 1.0 as we speak, bringing with it a brand new biome, a number of new bosses, and even a couple of new character lessons.
Should you’ve by no means performed Core Keeper, this is two items of fine information: with its 1.0 launch, Core Keeper has lastly tunneled its means into PC Sport Move, and should you’d moderately have it on Steam, it is also on sale for 20% off for the following 10 days.
Core Keeper actually nails the 2 issues I search for in a survival recreation. It is darkish and harmful—like Valheim, there is a large procedurally generated world crammed with monsters and a few actually intimidating bosses—nevertheless it’s additionally obtained the coziness of a recreation like Stardew Valley as a result of you may construct a house, develop crops on a farm, go fishing, and invite NPCs to sit back at your base with you.
On its journey by early entry Core Keeper added a ton of latest stuff: extra biomes, extra boss monsters, underground oceans, boats and go-carts, animal companions, and new character lessons. There’s additionally now a artistic mode if you wish to construct and discover with out worrying about getting your self killed. Core Keeper 1.0 additionally provides one more new biome, three new Hydra bosses (you may see them within the trailer above) and a mysterious new last boss to the final chapter of the story. You may discover full patch notes right here.
The draw back for gamers who’ve already dug into Core Keeper in early entry: the worlds you constructed aren’t suitable with all this cool new 1.0 stuff. You possibly can nonetheless play and construct and discover these worlds, however in response to developer Pugstorm, they “usually are not meant to be supported long run.” Should you’re on the brink of dig into Core Keeper once more, you must actually begin over from scratch with a brand new world.
“The sport has a brand new world era that can be used for any new worlds created,” Pugstorm says, “and we strongly suggest gamers to create new worlds to get the total expertise the sport has to supply each throughout the 1.0 launch and shifting ahead.”
That is a little bit of a bummer: I did love my cozy little Core Keeper base. I am going to simply need to construct it greater and higher this time round.