Summary
Kyorahas been announced for an Early Access release on Steam, with a reveal trailer shown at The Game Awards 2024. Although Pugstorm has been largely focused onCore Keeper, with updates planned for 2025, it appears that the Sweden-based studio has proven capable of tackling another project in the meantime.Kyorasets out to expand on many of the ideas that made its developer’s last release so popular.
Pugstorm is a developer that’s become particularly well known forCore Keeper, a game with dynamically-lit 2D pixel visuals, focused on survival and crafting in an open world. AlthoughCore Keeperhas been out in Early Access on Steam since 2022, the game received a full release this year. Some players considerCore Keeperto be one ofthe best co-op games of 2024, comparable to titles likeStardew ValleyandTerraria. Pugstorm appears to be moving further inTerraria’s direction withKyora.
As a part ofThe Game Awards' reveal-filled 2024 show,Core Keeperdeveloper Pugstorm and publisher Chucklefish announcedKyora, coming to Steam Early Access. The one-minute-long trailer reveals a crafting-focused survival gameplay experience that is set to support up to eight players in online co-op. The announcement trailer forKyorapans down on a building, before revealing various players running inside and around it, interacting with their creations. As the shot moves lower,Kyrora’s mining, crafting, exploration, and combat features are teased, making it clear that there seems to be a world of depth waiting for players in the game.
Pugstorm Reveals New Co-Op Game Kyora
Kyoraappears to take heavy inspiration frompopular titles likeTerrariaandNoita, offering a malleable environment that will allow pixel-by-pixel terraforming in a procedurally-generated open world. Gamers will be able to craft a variety of items, ranging from more basic structures like bridges and bases, as well as objects steeped in fantasy, including wands that facilitate the manipulation of matter. With items like these, players will be able to more easily fight bosses known as the Heralds and upgrade their toolkits, finding more to do.
Players are encouraged toexplore as much as possible with friendsto combine skills and discover item synergies, making it easier to survive the increasingly hostile world ofKyora, which seems to incentivize riskier gameplay with greater rewards. As people find more in the world, they’ll face greater threats, and the various biomes available will offer new solutions to the obstacles that gamers are bound to encounter. Although there is no set release date forKyora, Pugstorm and Chucklefish note that the title will drop in “the near future.”
Core Keeper
WHERE TO PLAY
Awaken as an explorer in a long-forgotten cavern teeming with untold secrets. In this award-winning, 1-8 player mining sandbox adventure, your choices shape an epic journey. Harvest relics and resources, craft advanced tools, build your base, and explore a dynamically evolving world waiting to be unearthed.Level up your skills, defeat legendary Titans, and unveil the power of the Core. Grow your garden, fish in mysterious waters, master a vast array of recipes, raise and care for animals, encounter the Cavelings, and carve out your own unique world in an enchanting underground adventure.MINE RESOURCESDelve deep to harvest precious resources and unearth hidden gems. Craft tools to help you survive, from pickaxes, fishing rods, and shovels to traps, bombs, and mortars. Upgrade your arsenal and equipment with advanced tools like the mighty Obliteration Ray, and automated machinery to streamline mining, smelting, storage, and more. Level up your skills and unlock powerful weapons to conquer the depths.
