Core Defense

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4.1
1.19K reviews
Content rating
Rated for 12+
50K+
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Content rating
Rated for 12+
Moderate Violence
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About this 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, pause any time
- Unlock and discover different rewards with every run
- Explore many playstyles and strategies
- Unlock dozens of elusive achievements
- Save and share infographics about your runs

Unlock the premium version to ...

- Blissfully despair at 20+ difficulty levels
- Try how far you can make it in endless mode

Unlock the mastery expansion to ...

- Collect mastery points to spend on various bonuses
- Beat 10 more difficulty levels
- Spice things up with 10 supercharge modes
Updated on
Oct 18, 2022

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.0
1.09K reviews
jed Rudolph
April 12, 2026
TLDR: Very good, but falls short of its true potential. Detail: Best tower defense I've found. I like that the mastery system lets you front-load your strategy before you begin the game, but it needs more options. There's too many must-picks and not enough interactions to make the rest anywhere near as good. The towers suffer from a similar issue. Some are much better than others. Combine the cleaver tower with area damage, optimize the rewards you get in mastery, and every level is cake.
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Emma Linso
February 15, 2022
Excellent game to come back to again and again. Plenty of viable builds. Matches last the perfect amount of time (5-10m once you become familiar with every upgrade). Unfortunately, the most interesting features are behind a paywall that—in my opinion after playing for quite a while—is too expensive. There simply isn't enough content for me to fully recommend the purchase. Still, there's plenty to do without paying, and there's also l always the possibility of future content updates.
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No Jar
February 8, 2022
Was a pretty good game for the first couple difficulties. Then the "add-ons" that would've made the game fun that was included in so many other tower defense mobile games had to be bought just so you could play endless, spend mastery points, etc. Also, if you lost or thought the game was hard...the game basically said suck it up in a pop-up for me. Ngl this is kind of sad for the potential this TD game had, given the fact that there are little to none like this with a deck build mechanic.
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