Core Keeper

What can I say, Stardew Vally meets Minecraft, Its a good time. If you like Building, Exploring, Mining and Crafting then you'll like this. 8/10 Craftings, would Mine again.

Majority of my game library is filled with survival, boss-rush and exploration games. I love this game genre, and Core Keeper is a gem that I didn't expect to find, which will soon join Valheim, V Rising, Terraria, and Starbound in my "Exploration Game Hall of Fame". The first 2 hours of Core Keeper just had me farming and fishing. It's a very chill game to just lost into while I'm slowly building up my base. For a retro style game, it doesn't look bad compared to most retro style artstyle I saw on Steam, and it has one of the most calming soundtracks in game outside of combat. During fights, especially bosses, I didn't expect amazing background battle music. While I do give praise for Core Keeper, there are some small little problem that needed to be addressed. ..> There are no tutorial for what you have to do, where to get some items, you purely go in blind, when they expect you to know the basic of survival, boss-rush mechanic. ..> Small inventory size and everything in the world seems to be easily broken and left on the floor for you to "accidently picked up". This is by far my major issue of the game. These dropped item persist even after you quit or log off the game, which is nice since you won't be missing it when you log back in, but its tedious when you want to pick up something important that you are searching for, at low hp running away from a mob, but your last open slot picked up a grass instead. Using range weapons or magic/summons, both you and the enemy can destroy a everything that makes the setting beautiful. I'm talking about the pillars, basin, stool, trees, grass. Your inventory will be filled with junk not even halfway to your destination and you need to go back again. Even with specialized item pouch seperating it from your main bag inventory, it rarely help. This environmental item should only be uprooted or uninstalled using a specific tool instead of a stray arrow, bombs or magic missiles. A beautifully lush jungle became barren when this happens, completely ruined the beautiful setting pre-map load. ...> I have played many game with the same genre, like I mentioned above, but new tier of gear in this game works like it's barely an upgrade, unless you actually use the improvement bench, which cause a lot of resources and currency at every upgrade. You would automatically assume that the next tier upgrade would give you more protection with substats that comes with it, but you would find soon enough it barely an improvement. Regardless of my complaint, its still a very relaxing game to chill, and challengingly enjoyable boss fight and mob rush as well.