CorePiercer

The gameplay is not bad, but the visual style would like to be much better

Un bon petit jeu.

Nope, this is a pass on basically all levels, I purchased because I thought it might make a good steam deck game, got it on sale for like $1 so figured it was worth at least a dollar. I knew it wasn't "intended" for Steam Deck, so I tried on my PC as well, and this was my experience on both: Missing graphics, some trains are just wheels without any visual on them, menus seem to be missing buttons and no clear indicator the menu is open at times. "NPC"s look gross and when talking to them they are just Anime pictures with similar color schemes. Poor controls, and a huge lack of instructions, took me like 10 minutes just to figure out how to upgrade, and that you can play with just your mouse. Huge lack of polish, the graphics I can get over, I didn't care. But I was getting warned almost every single "dive" on my way up with the message "Does this train ever run out of fuel? Wish I could turn water into fuel!" keep in mind this came in 3 different text boxes you had to click through or it would sit there forever. Oh, and just moving forward will fill your cargo with rocks, so by the time you get to where the good stuff is you have lost like 200 space of cargo. There are like 20 different "Icons" that clearly give information about your train, like how heavy, and how muuch cargo, fuel, and other storage, but some make no sense and I cannot figure out what they do. I can only assume heat is bad, and I want to keep my weight down unless I have enough power to pull it quickly. The "shop" is only 3 tabs (technically 4) The first tab will have 4 random items, either carts you can buy, and occasionally an upgrade, good luck getting that one upgrade you were wanting that you couldn't afford last time you saw it. The second tab is just refuel, and each "fuel" has its own purchase button. Fuel, Water, Nitrogen, maybe more...? Third is just the sell menu, no crafting so not like you need to keep any even though you can select them, (selecint them didn't seem to change if you sold that mineral or not) Technically 4th is just your train station where you can swap cars out, (There was no clear way to equip or remove cars, the remove X button is only there if you are hovering over the spot so I hope mobile ads do not learn from this game) No auto save apparently, there is an "auto save" option in the load menu, but it was always gray and would not let me select it, this was extra bad considering I would "dive" and come up only to instantly be brought to the main menu with only the option to load my last manual save. There is no punishment besides waiting for running out of fuel, you run out and get a message "Good thing we have some reserves! You will just go slow until you fuel up" Heat seems pointless? I cannot figure out what it is supposed to do, slow you down? Make fuel deplete faster? I tried leaving the game as an "Idle" game and running it while I did other things, not caring about running out of fuel as I could wait with the slow speed, but the game would go to the main menu, even if I just let it sit there without doing anything else. Overall a broken game with bad mechanics, poor gameplay loop, and dumb upgrade system.

Core Piercer is a somewhat unusual game where you control a "mining train" which is a big drilling/mole machine kind of thing. The objective is to drive your train around to fulfill various jobs, with a slightly different twist on the "pixel" miners like Steamworld Dig, in that your train tilts up and down on a free angle rather than moving through pixellated blocks. It's not that the concept here couldn't work, but the technical implementation is laughably bad. Controls and resolution are locked and can't be changed, so there's no way to improve the appalling visuals or the lacking, unsatisfying control scheme. The graphics are particularly bad, a lazy, amateurish blend of pixel "art" and MS-Paint tier scribbling. The laughable cash grab $7 USD price tag on this garbage is clear proof of a cash grab, but there's more, and it's worse. A number of known compromised/paid Steam accounts immediately wrote positive short, 2-3 sentence reviews for it, as direct Steam "purchases", these accounts commonly write reviews all in Russian or in exactly the same broken English. This is a very clear and obvious act of review manipulation from WELOVEBOT CO., LTD.

This game is well balanced, well done, the gameplay is really cool. The idea of ​​drilling the basement is very nice to me. No crash or bug when I play but sometimes a little trouble stopping my train in the station lol. I love to control my machine with the mouse !! [u] Note: 8/10 therefore [/u] After I played this game for 23 hours : [b]I just can't stop playing it .. Going deeper and deeper ! ![/b]

An unusual idea for the game is to go underground, making your way deeper and farther. With the improvement of the wagon boring machine, there is additional interest. The interface is intuitive.

A really good "drill train" simulation/managment, the game does exactly what the description says and the graphics are what you see in the screenshots. I got it on sale and feel like the price was right, full price might be a tad bit much for some people.

A cool game where an underground train extracts resources and delivers them wherever needed, exploring the depths of the world. I reached the lava and the train burned out. There is also always spare gas on the train, even if it runs out for the tenth time. But I really liked to mine different rocks and deliver them to consumers, improving my train and wagons. Cool!

While it is a rather simple game, it is strangely addicting! You drive a train with a drill attached to it to, well, pierce through different levels of earth and collect resources which you then sell for money to upgrade your train! Simple, like I said. But addicting. Definitely worth the price on sale.

[h1]시간 때우기 용으로는 좋지만 좀.....[/h1] 거대한 드릴을 단 열차으로 지하를 탐험하면서 곳곳에 뭍혀있는 자원을 획득해서 돈을 벌고 획득한 돈으로 열차를 더 나은 성능으로 개량하고 개량된 열차로 더 깊은 땅속의 자원을 찾아나서는 일종의 반복형 자원 획득 게임입니다. 게임 컨셉도 꽤나 신선한 편이고 한정적이지만 열차를 꾸미는 재미도 있어서 그냥 복잡한 생각없이 머리 비우고 게임하고 싶을 때 딱 적절한 게임입니다. 다만 UI를 비롯한 전체적으로 비주얼이 1990년대가 떠오를 정도로 좀 처참한 수준입니다. 또한 한국어 지원을 하긴 하지만 번역 수준도 끔직하고 그마저도 단어 연결이 잘못되어 있어서 오히려 게임을 방해합니다. 제대로 된 튜토리얼은 커녕 각 능력치에 대한 설명조차 부족해서 일일히 구매해서 직접 체감해보지 않으면 알 수 있는 것도 스트레스 게임 자체는 시간 때우기 용으로는 나쁘진 않지만 정가를 생각하면 복잡한 기분이 듭니다 최대 90% 세일까지 한 이력이 있으니 관심이 있으시면 그때를 노려보시는 것을 추천드립니다.