There are plenty of base-building survival games worth checking out, but sometimes the freedom to explore they offer can make it feel a little too hard to even decide what to do next. This month, one of the best survival games of recent years comes to PlayStation Plus, with a unique underground ground that adds some much-needed structure to its open-world exploration.
After spending some time in Steam Early Access, Core Keeper launched in 1.0 in August 2024. At the time, it was already one of the best base-building games around. It starts with your character (or characters, if you’re playing its great co-op mode) being transported to a sprawling subterranean world with no way back to the surface. From there, you need to dig your way through the walls of the cavern to make any progress, finding treasures abound and exploring a series of biomes each capped with a boss to solve the mysteries of the underground.
