Return from Core

Return from Core

顽核社 Funcore Club · 2025 · Automation, Survival, Base Building, Dating Sim, Sandbox

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Mostly Positive75% · 1,604
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About Return from Core

Feature Summary

  • Mine endlessly – Swing your pickaxe or blast entire mineral veins for resources
  • Explore a vast underground world – Discover secrets of humanity’s downfall
  • Befriend Monster Girls – Gain allies with unique abilities for battle and life
  • Build your base – Craft, decorate, and create a home underground
  • Automate production – Unlock machines and logistics to accelerate progress
  • Fight powerful enemies – Explore dangerous ruins and forgotten technologies

Full Description

After surface civilization's destruction, you're an underground survivor exploring a world of unknowns and dangers. Wield your pickaxe, explore ruins, befriend Monster Girls, build automated production lines, construct your base, and return to the surface!Grip your pickaxe and extract abundant underground resources. Chip away at rock walls or use powerful explosives to blast entire mineral veins - enjoy the satisfying destruction. Collect ores and rare materials to fuel construction, production, and equipment upgrades.Meet Monster Girls with unique abilities during your underground adventures. Each has distinct personalities, but earn their trust and they become powerful combat allies with special exploration skills. They also help at your base with farming, cooking, gathering, and production - boosting your survival efficiency.The vast underground hides countless secrets and dangers. From deep caverns to forgotten human ruins, fight alongside Monster Girls against powerful creatures, discover scattered lost technologies, and uncover the truth behind humanity's downfall.Start with just a pickaxe, but master lost technologies to create powerful machinery. Construct automated production and logistics systems to power the super drill and accelerate your surface return.In this sunless world, a comfortable, functional base ensures survival. Build workbenches, craft furniture, plan production and living areas, defend against underground creatures, and transform a crude cave into a warm home with your Monster Girl companions.Take up your pickaxe, join your Monster Girl companions, explore underground secrets, and become the first human to return to the surface!

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jun 2, 2026
Abandoned. Was having fun then... The entire contents of my backpack disappeared. Lost any desire to continue playing. A bug that will never get fixed. I don't want to play more for that to happen again. And really don't want to start over either. On the 1st floor you have a predetermined base location. Guessing every floor is like that. Combat goes like this. See some monsters. Put down some fences, kill monsters with ranged pickaxe, collect fences and loot over and over. Works in dungeons too that you can do over and over. You end up carrying a station with you to constantly fix your 1 weapon from durability loss. And another station to make the repair gears to fix your one and only weapon.
6 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 16, 2026
This game is a buggy mess.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 7, 2026
It's sort of like a core keeper lite; featuring monster girl companions, some lightweight automation, and a linear narrative driven story. Its relatively simple and straightforward by comparison, but it still scratches that same itch if you're looking for something different. It goes on sale frequently. I cant say it'll wow your socks off, but I certainly think it's worth trying out for the price.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 2, 2026
Its fun I like! little better than core keeper just a little bit in the art not the game play!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 13, 2026
Surprising little find, I just hope they make more! <3
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 28, 2026
Core Keeper clone, but you have female slaves
1 found this helpful

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