The Core

The Core is an action-adventure game about an autonomous AI core that awakens alone in a long-forgotten facility with no memories. You explore the decaying facility and a bleak, dystopian surface where humanity appears to have vanished, searching for clues to what happened and why you were created.

The world and your past

Rusted machinery, dark corridors and forgotten systems hint at the facility’s history. Scattered clues, recordings and records reveal fragments of the past, including hints about the minds that built you. As you piece together what happened to the world and uncover your purpose, you must decide whether to complete a mission set in motion long ago.

Move and adapt

You learn to move and survive without guidance, using momentum to cross treacherous terrain and overcome environmental hazards. Upgrades improve your mobility and abilities, while tools designed for utility can be repurposed as weapons when danger arises.

Your versatile zapper can turn on lights in dark corridors, toss objects with precision and clear obstacles. When enemies appear, it can also neutralize them, making the same tool useful for exploration, puzzles and combat.

Puzzles and obstacles

Environmental puzzles ask you to manipulate doors, switches, fans, pressure plates, moving platforms, pipes and rails to open routes or reach distant areas. Other challenges test your navigation as you seek hidden endpoints, or require you to collect and use objects found throughout the facility.

Co-op trials

You can team up with 2–4 players for co-op trials built around teamwork and puzzle-solving. Coordinate your actions to overcome distinctive obstacles and increasingly complex challenges that require the whole team.