Core Defence

Core Defence

ZNX Games · October 24, 2023 · Strategy, Tower Defense, Roguelite, Pixel Graphics, Management

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Core Defence price by region

Core Defence costs $2.69 in Georgia (USD), £3.39 in the United Kingdom, $3.99 in the United States, €3.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$4.99 in Canada, A$5.95 in Australia, NZ$5.99 in New Zealand, R$13.79 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Core Defence offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $2.69 $2.69 — 1
United Kingdom £3.39 £3.39 — 1
United Statesyour region $3.99 $3.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €3.99 €3.99 — 1
Canada CA$4.99 CA$4.99 — 1
Australia A$5.95 A$5.95 — 1
New Zealand NZ$5.99 NZ$5.99 — 1
Brazil R$13.79 R$13.79 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 1

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About Core Defence

CORE DEFENCE

Core Defence is a tower defence game with roguelike elements. In each run, your goal is to defend the Core for as long as you can by placing towers that will constantly attack incoming monsters, as well as carefully choosing powerful effects. In between runs, you will be able to spend all the crystals that you've gathered to unlock new towers and purchase various upgrades.

BUY TOWERS TO KILL MONSTERS

Each run, your objective is simple: defend the Core from monsters for as long as you can. Do that by building a variety of towers. These come with distinct damage types, stats, utilities, and unique effects. Choose wisely to create a deadly defence against the oncoming monsters, as well as bosses. Defeating them yields valuable chests filled with crystals and trophies that make you even more powerful.

EFFECTS

Throughout each run, you'll be choosing from a variety of powerful effects. These span a wide spectrum, ranging from straightforward damage boosts to transformative alterations in your towers' functionality. Your wise selections will be crucial in amplifing your towers' might.

CRYSTALS AND UPGRADES

During each run you'll be collecting crystals dropped by defeated enemies. These precious resources can be invested in acquiring new towers and upgrading them, enchancing your power for the next battle.

Core Defence — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Core Defence has a solid tower defence concept with interesting mechanics where towers gain special effects from nearby allies, but players report inconsistent difficulty balancing and incomplete content. The main complaints center on the game being too easy to finish in about 30 minutes (after which progression stops), though some experienced frustrating difficulty spikes with boss armour mechanics that have since been patched.

Recommended Oct 26, 2023
Unsure if the game balance was changed since the other reviews, but - the game is actually fairly easy. Possibly too easy; I "beat" it without realizing it, only realizing I had finished the current content when my crystal count stopped going up. (It appears to have happened somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes into a round.) Overall, the game has promise, and is worth playing around in, but is clearly not "done" yet; the content that is there is fairly entertaining, and I definitely got my $3 worth, but it could use more content and some minor rebalancing to polish out some of the roughness. The basics are pretty solid; you have a wide variety of towers, each of which gets special effects from other towers (of the same kind) within its radius. You slowly accumulate gold over the course of each run, which you can use to buy new towers, and you get crystals as you defeat enemies, which can be used for a meta-progression to buy new types of towers, upgrade the towers, but also things like the number of crystals you get after killing enemies, the rate at which your gold increases, and the frequency / odds of getting special "per-round" power-ups whenever you build a new tower. As…
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Recommended Oct 30, 2023
Good concept, was fun for a little bit but I just put lightning towers and won pretty easy. After 30 minutes you stop getting money or crystals it just keeps on going forever. I had the game open for 2 hours and nothing after 30 mins. Needs to be some kind of hard stop at 30 minutes if you don't have an endless mode
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Not recommended Oct 25, 2023
Review at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W4wa5Vt7uU Well this game is not balanced well and seems to make you lose super fast. As for title 'Defence," I am not sure if the name was intentionally spelt wrong.
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Recommended Aug 20, 2024
I finished the game in 2h. The game concept is quite cool, but it was mega easy to complete. I wish the devs will add more stuff to it. I'm ok with 2h of gameplay for 4$, yet i wish for more.
Recommended Oct 25, 2023
they need to hotfix the way they made the armor, bosses are unkillable no amount of upgrading helps. Armor is quite literally immune to any form of damage...fix pls EDIT: ISSUE HAS BEEN FIXED, GAME IS COMPLETELY PLAYABLE AND FULLY ENJOYABLE! MUCH WORTH!

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