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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!

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Developer
ehmprah
Publisher
Sonderland
Release
July 30, 2020
6 years and 4 days ago
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Mostly Positive368 reviews78.8%

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About the Game



Core Defense takes the best out of the tower defense genre and infuses it with roguelike mechanics and adds a dash of deckbuilding to create a simple, yet enticing gameplay experience which will have you craving for just one more wave, one more reward and just one ... more ... run!

  • Easy to learn – needs no tutorial
  • Hard to master due to high difficulty
  • Play in short sessions of under an hour
  • Unlock and discover different rewards with every run
  • Explore many playstyles and strategies
  • Blissfully despair at 20+ difficulty levels
  • Unlock dozens of elusive achievements
  • Save and share infographics about your runs
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