Core Defense on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!

Core Defense is a tower defense, difficult and replay value game developed by ehmprah and published by Sonderland.
Released on July 30th 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 12 languages: English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Belarusian and Indonesian.

It has received 359 reviews of which 285 were positive and 74 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Dual Core 2 Ghz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Dedicated graphics card
  • Storage: 300 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS 10.10 (Yosemite)
  • Processor: Dual Core 2 Ghz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Dedicated graphics card
  • Storage: 300 MB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 21, Debian 8 or later
  • Processor: Dual Core 2 Ghz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Dedicated graphics card
  • Storage: 300 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025
This is a fun game! It's an interesting take on tower defense -- basically, you try to survive 50 waves, and that ends one match. During that time, you get a couple of upgrades between each wave. You can earn points that add to your upgrade options for the next match. It's tactically interesting, and very nicely bite sized.
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Nov. 2024
You basically end up doing the same thing every run. On sale I'd say it's fine, but for full price I don't think it's really worth it.
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Oct. 2024
Aug. 2024
A solid tower defense game with simple but effective graphics, and several interesting takes on its types of towers. Never had a crash or other issues with it, so thumbs up from me.
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June 2024
Excellent replay value with the DLC - just consider it part of the overall cost and the total cost is worth it. Scratch your tower defense itch.
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Core Defense
7.4
285
74
Online players
1
Developer
ehmprah
Publisher
Sonderland
Release 30 Jul 2020
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