Return from Core

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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!

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Developer:
Tanxun Studio
Publisher:
2P Games
Engine:
Unity
Release date:
17 July 2025
Recent Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (11)
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (1582)

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Description

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!

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 64 bit
Processor:
Intel Core i3-3240 (2 * 3400); AMD FX-4300 (4 * 3800)
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
4 GB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 64 bit
Processor:
Intel Core i5-3470
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GTX 1660 6GB
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
4 GB available space

User reviews

barbrady123
Not recommended | 28 Oct 2025
186h played

Eh, it's ok. It's one of those "after a few floors it's just all the same" games though. Floor: copper, floor: iron, floor: some other thing...same every floor. You scale up about the same as the mobs so it's just super

Helpful: 20
zealotfl
Recommended | 11 Nov 2025
95.1h played

fun little (~20 hour) sandbox game, the closest comparison would be Core Keeper - progression is fun, some upgrades are impactful, but much like CK the game rewards spurts of grinding something out considerably over

Helpful: 19
stvn71
Not recommended | 02 Apr 2026
25.1h played

This game sucks! You need to restart the entire game because you performed a quest out of sequence. I restarted the game and cleared the entire level both times but could not advance to the next level because I

Helpful: 7
DHTGK
Recommended | 08 Nov 2025
19.8h played

For 17 bucks, not bad. But it needs a polish pass for sure. Many encounters of sound glitches, visual glitches on the upper floors, and a memory leak from extended play. Only solution is to close and restart the game.

Helpful: 6
Doctor Darling
Recommended | 28 Jan 2026
43.0h played

Reminds me alot of Core Keeper, a top down mining, crafting, and survival game, but with the added bonus of monstergirl bosses that you can befriend and have live at your base. The monstergirl bosses serve quite a few

Helpful: 5
IohannesArator
Not recommended | 31 Oct 2025
1.0h played

Not recommended until they fix the translations. It's comically bad and makes the game unenjoyable. I will update if they ever fix the translations.

Helpful: 15