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Core Defense cover art

Core Defense

ehmprah · Sonderland · 2020-07-30

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 21, 2021 (Android), Apr 21, 2021 (iOS), Jul 31, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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!

78%
positive of 370 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (98 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 15,359 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.4k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 370 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2023-04-06)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
858520202026Week of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.992020-07-312026-07-202020-07-31 — best price $8.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $6.992021-05-01 — best price $9.992021-07-26 — best price $3.992021-09-20 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $2.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-05-09 — best price $9.992022-07-22 — best price $2.492022-10-24 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-05-15 — best price $2.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $1.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-04 — best price $2.492024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-07-29 — best price $1.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-01-30 — best price $1.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $1.992025-07-21 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $1.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-09 — best price $1.992026-04-27 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $1.992026-07-20 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
97.8%
earned "Flawless"
20.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Belarusian, Indonesian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-03-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5602%50

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieCasualStrategyTop-DownAddictiveDifficultMinimalistRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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