AdventureFit check
Is To The Core worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Incremental-game players who enjoy gathering resources and buying upgrades
- Players who prefer short resource-gathering trips governed by a fuel supply
- Players who like progression through planets with increasing strength
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a story-led structure or character-focused progression
- Players who want varied activities beyond drilling, collecting resources, and upgrading equipment
- Players looking for a multiplayer game
Our take on To The Core
Rather than centering on combat or quests, this incremental game builds its progression around drilling planets, managing fuel, and turning mined resources into equipment upgrades. Resource mastery adds another layer: repeated mining increases the drop rate for that resource.
What is To The Core?
To The Core centers on drilling through planets in an incremental progression game and gathering materials for upgrades.
Players travel through a solar system, selecting planets with increasingly demanding challenges and different resources. Each expedition is constrained by fuel, so gathering materials before the supply runs out is part of the process. Those materials can improve drill durability, fuel capacity and damage, as well as purchase other unusual upgrades. An automatic mastery system strengthens collected resources as they are mined: reaching 100 iron mined, for instance, raises its drop rate by 5%.
How To The Core plays
- 01Resource mastery
- Mining 100 iron raises its drop rate by 5% through the automatic mastery system.
- 02Drill upgrades
- Resources can improve drill durability, fuel, and damage, alongside other upgrades.
- 03Planet progression
- Planets become stronger as players travel farther through the solar system.
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To The Core: platforms & release
Is To The Core worth it?
It is worth it if: incremental-game players who enjoy gathering resources and buying upgrades. Skip it if: players seeking a story-led structure or character-focused progression.
Where can I download To The Core?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens To The Core's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is To The Core on?
Windows only.
