Ever since the Early Access launch on March 8, Core Keeper, a lovely Terraria-like underground survival sim, has sold approximately half a million downloads. This surge in popularity can be attributed in part to positive streamer attention: Twitch streams of Core Keeper are surpassing 2 million views.

Core Features:

• 1-8 Player Sandbox – Fight, farm, craft, and survive with your buddies in this 1-8 player sandbox adventure!
• Experiencing an Ancient World – In an unending procedurally produced underground ecosystem, explore living biomes and fight cavernous predators.
• Workbenches and generators can be used to produce new equipment and technology, brew potions, construct your base, and power up the Core.
• Crops to Grow and Recipes to Discover – Plant seeds, care for crops, and mix ingredients in the cooking pot to create delectable new recipes for powerful boosts.
• Explore a large underground cave full of never-ending resources in Mine Resources. To help you live, gather minerals and look for hidden crystals, fossils, and trinkets.
• Craft New Items, Armor, and Equipment - Customize your explorer to go further into the cave by crafting new items, armor, and equipment.
• Battle Giant Bosses - There are a variety of underworld animals, some small and some extremely enormous! Defeat giant bosses to learn about the world's secrets.

To have hard work pay off like this is the indie dream, and the success is well-deserved. Chris Livingston appreciated Core Keeper's juxtaposition of really terrifying underground surprises with a general homey, pleasant ambiance reminiscent of Stardew Valley in an Early Access first perceptions post. In addition to the good news about sales, developer Pugstorm announced that Core Keeper has already been validated by Stream Deck. Gone are the days of waiting six months or more for a promising indie game to be on the Switch e-shop so you could play it on the go. Although the Switch and the Deck have different market niches and use cases, the Switch has had few viable opponents as the preferred mobile platform for PC indie game ports until now, and additional competition in this field can only be a good thing.