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?
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About
Are you ready to lead a team of exceptional talent in one of the most challenging environments known to humankind? At DrillCore, we're not just mining minerals; we're safeguarding the future. We're looking for strategic minds and resourceful leaders to manage our cutting-edge operations. Do you have what it takes to make every decision count in the race to profits & earnings against climate collapse?
Your 'Exciting' Mission: Lead, Manage, Innovate
As a Platform Manager at DrillCore, you'll oversee a dedicated team of miners, carriers, and guards. Your mission? Navigate them through perilous missions to extract vital minerals and power our drill platform. Every strategic decision will test your planning and resource management skills. You’ll report directly to your Sector Manager, he will make sure you keep the operation running smoothly, whatever the pressure you’re under.
Nighttime is when the real excitement begins. This is when the planet's fauna usually clash directly with our company’s safety commitments. Your job? To maintain profits while safeguarding both the lives of your crew and the biodiversity of the planet you’re drilling. Sometimes tough choices need to be made, and that’s why DrillCore equips you with state-of-the-art defensive turrets. Remember, it's NOT a crime against biodiversity if it’s self-defense.
At DrillCore, no two challenges are the same. Unpredictable wildlife, evolving requirements, and ever-changing technologies will keep you on your toes. Adapt swiftly, allocate resources efficiently, and develop innovative strategies to overcome the unexpected. Your success unlocks new career opportunities and advancements, pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $12.99−35% | 2.5Kreviews | 85% | — | $1.2M |
| $19.99 | 80ratings | 70% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
This is a fun game that sucked me in, took several days of my time, and even though I didn't play everything available in it, it left me satisfied. Drill Core is simple ... get a random mission, drill to get resources that you'll either keep for meta progression, make it easier to do the mission, or to actually do the mission (like coal to go down a certain distance or resources you need to send back home early). And it is satisfying in that it has a fun game loop ... drill during the day, fight monsters coming down the shaft at night ... repeat. I wish that there was more variety in the dialogue ... hearing the same phases repeated ad nauseum gets irritating. But the graphics are servicable for the job, the biomes are distinct and have interesting challenges (do you let the monsters spawn in the mine during the day to get extra resources while risking your miners, do you go hard for their nests, or do you try to avoid them entirely?) I wish there was more to the game, some kind of actual story that we were playing through, where the meta progression played into advancing the story, but it's just random missions on different planets, which can be satisfying enough.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.67/day in the week to Aug 5 → 1.29/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, German*, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian*, Simplified Chinese*, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Serbian*languages with full audio support
| $19.99 |
| 38ratings |
| 72% |
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| $15.99−20% | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 101 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I will give a no to this game. I gave it a fair shot, it's too late to refund. IT IS INCREDIBLY TEDIOUS. The entire gameplay loop is to count your miners/haulers every 30 seconds and replace who died. You lose a few every minute. They just keep dying in the mine for no reason. Heading into a lava block or mining a boulder from under it, when there is a better approach. It's insane how fragile and stupid they are. MAJOR ANNOYANCE: END OF DAY RECALL SHOULD BE AUTOMATIC start of day -> all workers go into the mine. It's automatic. end of day -> you have to recall workers manually, clicking a button for 3 seconds. If you forget to recall, most workers die within 10 seconds. Creatures appear at night and eat them. Of course I forget on every other round and *RIP* all my progress. This game should be called RESET SIMULATOR. I've got better things to do with my life than play a game that tries to erase my progress on every round.
This game is so much fun! It reminds me of some of my favorite games all wrapped into one. It’s got a survival aspect similar to Missle Command, a farming aspect like Harvest Moon, and a strategy aspect like C&C Red Alert. I am really having fun with it and would recommend this as a chill-out-and-play strategy game. (Played on OG Steam Deck)
too many things going on, messy, confusing, miners are suicidal idiots.
It's a pretty good game in its niche genre of drilling rogue-like tower defense. It's similar to titles like Dome Keeper and Wall World. I'm definitely happy to see another game of that type. Had a lot of fun completing the game and getting all achievements. There are some issues, though, that I want to point out: -Game crashes a lot and gets laggy in longer runs (or just by having the game opened for long), and the workers sometimes teleport when having higher movement speed - it looks like lagging in an online game. -A lot of buildings and turrets seem to be unequally strong or weak. The game is just really unbalanced.
Unexpected great game!!
игра очень медитативная и со своим вайбом заводской жизни. Много пушек,врагов и улучшалок, несколько платформ с уникальным гемплеем, шикарная русская озвучка и прогрессия. Но быстро к сожалению приедается и маловато контрактов, очень похожа чем-то на Doome Keeper этим, помаленьку играть нормально, но залпом не советую.
It's a game with an identity crisis. A lot of things aren't explained properly, and you just have to experiment only to realize you made a poor uninformed decision about the building you just build.
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.
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