CorePiercer Reviews

The balance is high-quality, the gameplay is also quite good, but the game needs variety in design and art.

Interesting concept! Interesting story. Great gameplay and music. This game has beautiful and incredible graphics. I really liked the game, I recommend it to all fans of such content.

Pygame? Looks like a game I will made someday. Good design, but game engine is too basic.

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.

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.

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!

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

The game's concept isn't very bad at all, has a very (Super) Motherload kinda feel to it with a mechanic about you being a driller train. It's honestly a mechanic that works well and has a lot of replay-ability in its loop. The problem is the flash quality visual design and obvious bugs in its displays for your various information like fuel and depth and such. To Be Fair, (Super) Motherload started out as a flash game too, but even that had some obvious polish and was a labor of love rather than just "Hey, look what I can do, give money" (also tbf, back then people released games for fun rather than for money so there's that too, but I digress). I bought it on a half priced sale so I'm not torn up about it, but I am sad to see that the game doesn't have the polish it deserves. If Xe2050 doesn't try to copyright this in some way, would love to see another designer/studio pick this up and give it the proper release it deserves. And yes, I might play this again if only for laughs or to study it, not just trash talking it; I really do think there's potential for it, but again am sad that it was made for cash rather than to be played.

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.