Minecraft is all about freedom. It's about finding your way, making your own fun, and building your own space in the world. It's a game in which you, the player, have the power to do pretty much anything. It might start out as punching trees, but eventually you carve your own path through the procedurally generated world, free from guidance and instruction. This total freedom is a joy for many players, but for others it leads to disinterest, and if you're someone who prefers a hint of direction then we might have just the game for you.
Core Keeper, which is threatening to break through into the top Steam games, retains a lot of the key components found within Minecraft, like crafting, creating your own home, and exploration, but they're baked into a structure that's easy to follow without having to resort to tutorials. If you've bounced off survival games like Minecraft before, you could find that Core Keeper is the one that finally sticks.
When you start a new Core Keeper save, it opens up with a cutscene that explains who you're playing as and why they find themselves underground. Now, that's not a big deal for some people, but if you like to know what's going on in a game, then this will be a huge boon. After this, you're dumped into a subterranean world with only a couple of basic items at hand, but there's another important distinction: you're surrounded by three strange devices you can interact with, each representing a major boss you have to go and kill. Et voilà, you have a purpose.
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