Games like Core Defence
If Core Defence is your kind of game, the closest matches are fishTDX, Ninja Vs. Zombies 3 and Fungus Reaper — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Core Defence: Core Defence is a tower defence game with roguelike elements. Build towers to defend the Core, unlock new ones and upgrade them, choose from a variety of powerful effects and defeat bosses.
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fishTDX
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Top pick for Core Defence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Core Defence.
Buy towers and discover new islands as you prepare your defenses against waves of fish! Unlock new towers and affixes after each round with new play styles and new synergies. Build your defenses and experiment to create the ultimate fishing machine!
Ninja Vs. Zombies 3
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Core Defence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Core Defence.
Fight Zombies, Monsters and a Nightmare with your Skills and Upgrades, use your Sword correctly and escape with Smoke Bombs, blast your way or smash Undead side by side with your Ninja Elite like never before. Action-packed meets Survival RogueElite Ninja Game.
Fungus Reaper
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Third-strongest match for Core Defence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Core Defence.
Mushlings are your friends ... until you turn them into delicious soup! An "eerie" turn-based tower defense roguelite!
Necrosmith
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Ranked #4 for Core Defence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Core Defence.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
Refence
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Ranked #5 for Core Defence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Core Defence.
Refence is a roguelite based idle defense game, where you can choose heroes and their traits, upgrade your castle, and manage resources to fend off enemies from the Demon Realm who are trying to attack your castle.
Necrosmith 2
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Ranked #6 for Core Defence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Core Defence.
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
Ravage Road
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Ranked #7 for Core Defence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Core Defence.
Choose wisely as you build the road from your evil tower outwards into the beautiful landscape around it to conquer and claim the region tile by tile in this tower defense deck building roguelike. Hire minions, upgrade your cards, and prepare your defenses against the heroes riding against you.
Halls of Torment
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Ranked #8 for Core Defence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Core Defence at current Steam store prices.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Core Defence on Steam right now.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~75% under Core Defence on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Core Defence.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~50% under Core Defence on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Core Defence.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Core Defence on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Core Defence.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Core Defence on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Core Defence.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Core Defence on Steam right now.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Core Defence on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Core Defence.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Core Defence.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Core Defence.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Core Defence.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about Core Defence
- How much does Core Defence cost?
- Core Defence is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Core Defence?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Core Defence are fishTDX, Ninja Vs. Zombies 3, Fungus Reaper.
- Who developed Core Defence?
- Core Defence was developed by ZNX Games.
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