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To The Core cover art

To The Core

SomethingExtra · 2023-08-10

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

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

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

To The Core is an Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2023, priced at $7.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 5193 reviews).

35
playing now
93%
positive of 5.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

35 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

To The Core trailer thumbnail

My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire - Shaken to the Core (Official 11th Anniversary Trailer)

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 35 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 5% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 104k–234k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,193 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

5002026-09-14 23:00 — 23 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 13 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 37 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 32 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 28 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 28 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 32 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 12 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 29 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 48 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 21 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 26 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 32 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 25 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 30 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 50 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 26 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 24 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 26 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 33 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 28 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 32 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 27 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 35 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.2k33Aug 2023Aug 2026Aug 2023 — avg 1,181 · peak 3,465Sep 2023 — avg 856 · peak 3,103Oct 2023 — avg 164 · peak 525Nov 2023 — avg 96 · peak 188Dec 2023 — avg 96 · peak 183Jan 2024 — avg 87 · peak 159Feb 2024 — avg 67 · peak 127Mar 2024 — avg 70 · peak 117Apr 2024 — avg 62 · peak 113May 2024 — avg 67 · peak 152Jun 2024 — avg 165 · peak 414Jul 2024 — avg 102 · peak 200Aug 2024 — avg 85 · peak 198Sep 2024 — avg 148 · peak 386Oct 2024 — avg 143 · peak 325Nov 2024 — avg 81 · peak 152Dec 2024 — avg 72 · peak 236Jan 2025 — avg 140 · peak 316Feb 2025 — avg 109 · peak 497Mar 2025 — avg 142 · peak 556Apr 2025 — avg 67 · peak 144May 2025 — avg 75 · peak 148Jun 2025 — avg 87 · peak 179Jul 2025 — avg 74 · peak 155Aug 2025 — avg 65 · peak 123Sep 2025 — avg 55 · peak 114Oct 2025 — avg 67 · peak 164Nov 2025 — avg 54 · peak 100Dec 2025 — avg 49 · peak 91Jan 2026 — avg 51 · peak 102Feb 2026 — avg 46 · peak 88Mar 2026 — avg 41 · peak 98Apr 2026 — avg 44 · peak 88May 2026 — avg 39 · peak 85Jun 2026 — avg 41 · peak 79Jul 2026 — avg 33 · peak 62Aug 2026 — avg 34 · peak 64
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

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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