Core Defense

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 358 reviews of which 284 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.

The Steam community has classified Core Defense into these genres:

Tower Defense Difficult Replay Value Deckbuilding Minimalist Casual Rogue-like Strategy Addictive 2D Singleplayer Procedural Generation Rogue-lite Indie Top-Down Sci-fi Retro Tactical Touch-Friendly Choices Matter

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

Reviews

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Feb. 2024

a TD with rouge-like and deck building gameplay 9.9/10 I am taking that 0.1 because I suck at the game.

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9.75€

7.4

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Developer

ehmprah

Publisher

Sonderland

Release 30 Jul 2020

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