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To The Core
To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Addictive for a couple of hours, with the potential to be even greater (more worlds, bigger skill tree, balance some stuff, fix memory leaks, etc). Unfortunately I've waited for 2 years and the developer has not updated. I've also seen a mobile version being advertised and I'm…”
— a player, Steam review · 40 hrs played“Shortish game, but fun, get if on discount, no more content after you beat it the first time 9/10”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“It's a bit grindy, but it picks up the pace later. Would recommend.”
— a player, Steam review · 24 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:58 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
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FPS antivirus issues resolved
Finally fixed the issue with the antivirus flagging. If you are still experiencing lag on startup please let me know, hope you all enjoy. This fix has taken up all of my day but ill be back with more
FPS Issues addressed
Right now the game is being flagged by certain antivirus (mainly Avast and Bitdefender) I am currently working on getting the game code signed which will fix this issue, but in the meantime if you are
Steam Page Released!!!
Steam page released!!! this is pretty litty here is some gameplay I guess. https://giphy.com/gifs/u4RpDHcRBS1tcOl402
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Casual · Clicker · 2D · Arcade · Procedural Generation · Adventure · Indie · Mining · Singleplayer · Retro · Stylized · Destruction (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 19 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support (Intel Core i5 or better) Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs (NVidia or AMD)