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Recently, when I was bored watching live broadcasts, I suddenly found that some anchors were playing a game called "Geocentric Nucleus Protector" online.
The gameplay of multiplayer + sandbox + farming + mining + production + battle instantly attracted the author, and somehow flashed in my mind the picture of playing "Terraria" and "MC" with friends many years ago, and the battle blood that has been silent for many years has a vague boiling meaning. Without saying a word, I opened STEAM and searched for this game, which doesn't matter, it turns out that it is still a new "dark horse"! The preemptive EA price of 43 yuan itself is not under pressure, and the content is very pleasing to play, and the direct payment is taken!
After more than 30 hours of indulgence, the author wrote this article, hoping to make a reference for the player friends who have not yet entered the pit.
The new dark horse with sales exceeded 500,000 in 2 weeks
Core Keeper is a pixel-style multiplayer sandbox game independently developed and produced by PUGSTORM and published by FIRESHINE GAMES.
The game opened the EA test on the STEAM platform on March 8, 2022, and the sales broke through 100,000 copies in two days of release, and the total sales after 2 weeks exceeded 500,000 copies, and the praise rate of STEAM users' comprehensive evaluation exceeded 91%, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is a batch of new "dark horses".
It is gold that always shines
PUGSTORM Indie Game Studios also released an action-decryption game radical RABBIT STEW as early as July 2020. The game itself is very well-made, and the decryption content is also very distinctive, but unfortunately, this type of indie game will release hundreds of games every year, and it is really difficult to fight the siege. So even if the STEAM reputation of this "Don't Eat Rabbit" has reached a terrifying 100% praise, it still can't hide the fact that sales are dismal.
But as the old saying goes, gold always shines, it's just a matter of being discovered sooner or later.
Pugstorm Studios was not discouraged by the failure of the first work, but in June 2021 officially announced the approval of its second work" "Geocentric Nucleus Protector", and opened the ALPHA test on December 1, 2021. With its high-quality game production skills and just the right stitching monster gameplay, it finally attracted the attention of players, and after the EA test was opened on March 8, 2022 and after the live broadcast blessing of major game anchors around the world, it is difficult for "Geocentric Nucleus Protector" to become a hit.
"Curiosity kills cats, ignorance kills people"
As a game that is EA, the background story is at most to set a main tone, to put it bluntly, it is white, so there is no need for everyone to dig deep into the plot, play normally, and the real complete story still has to wait for the later update.
As far as the current plot is concerned, it is really very simple and rude, telling a story of "curiosity kills cats, ignorance kills people", a group of people exploring in the jungle, the protagonist found an unknown strange object, and then touched the unknown object without finding out whether there was danger. As a result, there is no suspense in distress, and a blinding white light teleports the protagonist to the dangerous dark underground world. In order to survive, the protagonist can only carry a pickaxe, helplessly embarked on this adventure road of digging the wall and farming to fight the boss...
Pros features
The biggest feature of this work is essentially a "stitching monster", but the stitching in all aspects is relatively good, so it is not against the harmony at all.
The whole game is roughly a "mountain to open the road, meet the water to build a bridge" gameplay, the construction fun is very high, can see the shadow of the MC, although some places are not very reasonable need to improve, but overall is still very good, if the official can give more technical support for automation in the future update, then it will definitely let the player play more tricks.
When creating a character in the game, players can choose 1 of 7 classes as their character class, and they can also give their character an appearance pinch.
Although this game is a pixel style game, it is difficult to have too prominent performance in the details of the screen, but this face pinch link still has a nose and eyes, which is really not perfunctory at all. Players can modify 8 items of data such as body, skin, hairstyle, hair color, and eye color to create a perfect character image in their minds.
There are a total of 9 players' talent skill trees in the game, namely mining, running, melee, vitality, crafting, ranged, fishing, gardening and cooking, and the initial base obtained by the initial selection of different classes is different.
For example, explorers go out with +3 running skills, +3 rations, +1 small lanterns, while miners go out with +3 digging skills, +3 rations, and +1 copper pickaxe. Later in the game, no matter what the player does, they will get the corresponding talent points, and then they can add points according to their preferences.
The game has a high degree of freedom of play, and you can play a lot of tricks with a good brain, of course, if you just want to be a full-time life player who farms and fishes, it is not impossible.
Since the entire battle exploration takes place underground, there is no so-called day and night change. Players need to carefully explore the dark underground world around them, and place more torches to illuminate the areas they have already explored, otherwise if they fall into darkness, they will be vulnerable to danger.
In addition, in the early stage of the game to explore, to a large extent, will be in the dark one person and one pickaxe to dig through the core, coupled with often dig out a variety of large underground creatures for combat, it is easy to make some special groups of players uncomfortable, so if you have claustrophobia of space, the author suggests that you can first look at the relevant game of this game after carefully entering the pit.
Novices need to pay attention to the following problems when entering the pit
First of all, the game does not have a teleportation point, no matter how far the player explores, as long as they die, they can only resurrect at the initial starting point. And if you chose the "hardcore" mode when creating your character, then congratulations, once the character dies you have "nothing".
Yes, you read that right, a character in hardcore mode is completely GAME OVER once they die!
Therefore, it is recommended that novice players and hand-wrecks still choose to play the standard mode better, although it is better to break your legs when running pictures, but it is better than being beaten back to the pre-liberation stronger with one move.
Secondly, because this game is currently in the EA stage, the content in the game is relatively weak, a little bit less resistant to play, 40 hours can basically play almost. The final problem is that in the game online, occasionally encounter the use of "immortals" "immortal players", so that the experience of the whole game will be instantly worse, here can only hope that the official in the back can be paid attention to, severely crack down on those "immortal players", give all ordinary players a good game environment.
Of course, if you can bring three or five friends to go online with you, then it doesn't matter, unfortunately, the author does not have friends to play with...
epilogue
Overall, this game is a rare multiplayer online sandbox game, although the gameplay is indeed a stitching monster, but the sewing is also just right, the overall play is still very comfortable. If there are friends, you can choose to go into the pit together, and those who have no friends can also be played as a stand-alone game.
Although the current volume of game content is not large, but the author is still very optimistic about PUGSTORM, an independent studio, its interaction in the developer forum and the player community is still quite heartfelt, you can listen to the opinions of players very well, so the follow-up update is basically no big problem. If there are players who like this style, you can start now, the author's suggestion is to buy early and enjoy early, although there is a discount on late purchase, but consider the original price is only 43 on the basis of the actual matter.
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