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To The Core

SomethingExtra · 2023-08-10

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 10, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.

26
playing now
93%
positive of 5.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

26 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 26 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 226 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~28/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,380 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 104k–233k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,180 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.59 at Steam (2023-08-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.3k1.3k20232026Week of 2023-08-01: 1,285 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 957 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 314 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

46192026-08-11 19:00 — 42 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 29 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 28 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 40 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 27 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 35 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 37 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 33 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 33 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 45 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 36 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 34 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 41 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 23 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 34 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 41 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 23 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 28 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 44 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 28 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 29 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 22 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 32 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 31 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 20 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 46 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 37 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 26 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
98.1%
earned "Good at following directions"
72.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,54119%19
Steam (Steam)5511%16

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIdlerIndieRetroSpaceArcadeCasualMiningClickerStylized

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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