To The Core

To The Core is an incremental drilling game with planetary scope. Each session has you launch a drill at one of the planets in the solar system, descend as deeply as you can manage on the fuel you have, and surface to spend whatever resources you collected on upgrades for the next descent. Stronger drill, more fuel, more damage, and quirky upgrades that bend the loop in different directions.

The solar system contains planets with varying resource profiles, each one tougher to drill than the last. Progress is gated by the cumulative upgrade purchases you make between descents, and the loop has the satisfying click of incremental games at every layer — you're always almost ready for the next harder planet.

The automatic mastery system attaches buffs to resources you mine frequently. Mining 100 iron grants a 5% drop-rate bonus on iron; mining more grants more. The system rewards the natural specialization that emerges as you focus on particular planets and pulls you back to ones you've mined before to push their bonuses higher. Sessions can be short, but the long pull is the gradual sense of always being closer to drilling the core itself.