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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 361 reviews of which 287 were positive and 74 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 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 Retro Sci-fi Tactical Touch-Friendly Choices Matter

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System 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

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May 2025
Idk where 14 hours came from but this is fun and addicting, great to play while watching a YT documentary.
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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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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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Frequently Asked Questions

Core Defense is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

Core Defense is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

Core Defense received 287 positive votes out of a total of 361 achieving a rating of 7.45.
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Core Defense was developed by ehmprah and published by Sonderland.

Core Defense is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Core Defense is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Core Defense is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Core Defense is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Core Defense. Explore additional content available for Core Defense on Steam.

Core Defense does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Core Defense does not support Steam Remote Play.

Core Defense is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Core Defense
9.75€
7.5
287
74
Game modes
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Developer
ehmprah
Publisher
Sonderland
Release 30 Jul 2020
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