Core Defense
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Core Defense! Developed by the innovative team at Sonderland Games UG haftungsbeschrankt, this Casual game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 12+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 20th April 2021, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 13th January 2022.
Are you a fan of Casual, Strategy, games? Then Core Defense is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Core Defense
Over 399 players have rated Core Defense. Join them and share your thoughts!
How Much Does Core Defense Cost?
Good news! You can download Core Defense on your iOS device absolutely free!
Core Defense Release Date
Eager to know when Core Defense first graced the App Store? It was launched on 20th April 2021.
When Was Core Defense Last Updated?
The latest version of Core Defense was updated on 13th January 2022, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Core Defense?
To get started with Core Defense, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Core Defense
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
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Core Defense updated on 13th January 2022:
- Fixed caching for purchases for offline play
- The restart button is now disabled for daily challenge games
- Restarting a game will now keep the selected supercharge
- The score bonus for unused mastery points is now tied to the amount of waves played so creating and immediately abandoning games can no longer be exploited to gain infinite XP
- You can no longer abandon an already abandoned game for infinite XP
User Reviews on Core Defense
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Core Defense below:
Simple strategy game that we cant seem to get bored of!
The games short and simple. It has a little progression to keep you playing for a bit but not much to it. We personally like these styles of games and theyre impossible to find though so here you go. Youve got a fiver from us. It was a good time while we played it but rather short after downloading it before unlocking and burning out on the game from getting/doing the same stuff every time. Its free though, so to efforts wasted there. We like the rouge lite to it, although, with such little options you have very little replayability. We wouldve liked to see stronger upgrade synergies and more creative tower effects and affects, but then we suppose it wouldnt have been as shortn simple, would it?
This was just what we were looking for. We’ve really enjoyed this game. We went ahead with unlocking the premium game modes. If you like classic tower defense with some smart new twists, give it a try!
But the game just keeps sending us back to the main menu.
However, it soft locks the actual gameplay behind its paid modes, meaning youll likely beat the game at its easiest (and only available difficulty level) within 30 minutes to an hour and have nowhere to progress from there. The gameplay itself revolves around random towers and abilities you pseudo-draft, and a maze you create yourself. However, the map is too small to make any type of maze other than a simple spiral.
The game is literally unplayable it just keeps on attempting to load.
The game runs fine, until we go to start the wave, we push the button and it does absolutely nothing. We know the button works because when theres no tower placed, it tells us to place all towers before you begin the wave. When we place all towers, the button to start doesnt do anything. Extremely frustrating since everybody else says the game is great.
The title says it all. Its a great game, definitely it rly worth checking out, but dont think for a moment that its free. Yeah, you can technically play for free, but the game literally takes the fun out of it. In the games description it says that premium only adds some new difficulty levels, and an endless mode. What it doesnt mention is how, in order to play on any difficulty besides abysmally easy, you need to buy premium, and half of the achievements for progression rely on playing on harder difficulties, meaning that not only does the game get stale and boring incredibly quickly if you dont pay up, but you literally cant get half of the achievements, showing that the entire game was designed around the assumption that players buy premium. Now whether premium is worth it is up to the individual, but we certainly wont be getting it. Perhaps we would have had they not tried to pretend that it was a free to play game.
The game feels highly manipulative, and we got sick of this feeling. The towers and abilities you can access are heavily randomized from game to game. Some towers are unavailable in some games, even though they are common, and readily available in other games. And, in many games, after the first few waves, no more towers ever become available. If you bother continuing to play, rather than bailing, you are forced down some play path the Developer prefers (regardless of your own preferred play style), such as trying to win with a single defender, aid but nothing but furious healing and shielding. We love TD games, but even after having paid we deleted this one.
Lots of avenues for strategy in each game and decent longevity in the overload-mastery progression system between games.
This game is truly one of if not the single best the best tower defense game in the app store right now. In a time when most app store games are bloated micro transaction cash grabs this game stands out as positive and fun experience worth your time (and if you so choose) your money as well. It has great replay value and though it can feel simple or empty at times the gameplay has way more depth than most other apps. Please consider that this game is made by a smaller developer and what that means in comparison to the AAA games and judge accordingly.
Great game. Only one star off because the battery consumption seems to be really high.
We enjoy playing this game for more than two reasons one the tower defense mechanics and how you can place walls the alter the enemies pathways and another cool thing you could add is a tower that spawns drones that stays in the towers range but follow the enemies and should attack half as fast as the repeater.
The game has a major audio problem. 8/10 Great game!
This is, by far, the most replay-able tower defense on the market right now! Its incredibly fun as well. The towers are unique and synergies well. Buy the 2 DLCs, you wont regret it.
This is one of the simplest tower defense games we have played and thats what makes it so great! The game isnt easy, its the right amount of difficult. The daily challenges are great as well.
This game crashes to a white screen every time we open it. We havent been able to play once. Uninstalling.
This game is the first IOS game we found that we actually keep coming back to, that "one more level" part of your description really rings true. Splendid game!
This game is a blast. The randomness of what you have to build or upgrade combined with the skills you choose to enhance create a ton of replay-ability. Recently It seems like TD games are remakes or cash grabs. This is a fresh take on on the genre and definitely worth your time if you enjoy TD games.
Cant stop playing. Local save only so we got a game going on our ipad pro and our iphone 11 pro max and it runs flawlessly on both. We would love to see more towers and skills. Just more of everything. Id pay for a beefier game. Anyways awesome game. Addictive.
Well done, this is a great game that probably has more value then any Ubisoft game. You put more effort into this then 50 people making watch dogs 3. Bravo.
Having a lot of fun with this game,took a bit to figure out what was going on when we first started, but once you get it you get it hope they put more similar games out, its been awhile since we found a game we enjoyed this much, Thank you guys!!!
Add a bit more early game tower variety.
This is fun to start, but it gets pretty stale and repetitive. This would be a great game if they had ways to mix up the gameplay.