Core Defender: Tower Defense
Role Playing In-app purchases Contains ads
Roguelike horde survival meets tower defense. Build, merge and hold the core!
- Downloads
- 24+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Nov 8
- 2026 · v2.0.3
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About Core Defender: Tower Defense
Core Defender is a roguelike tower defense game: fight the horde as a hero, then build a fortress that survives the siege. Explore ruined lands, power up the lost tower and hold the core against waves of monsters.
Survive the Horde
• Smooth touch controls with a virtual joystick, skill buttons and an evasive dash
• Active skills: Dragon Breath, Ember Bomb, Storm Lance, Earthshatter and more
• Orbital Blades, Arcane Bolts, Chain Lightning, Flamethrower and Fireball
• Draft relics, reroll or banish cards and evolve weapons into Fused Armaments
Build Your Tower Defense
• Planning time between siege waves, with a preview of the next wave and its path
• Shape the enemy path with walls and gates
• Ballista, Frost, Tesla and Mortar towers with targeting modes: First, Strongest, Nearest, Flyers
• Merge towers and pick a specialization: Sniper or Repeater, Glacier or Brittle Frost, Napalm or Cluster, Chain or Overload
• Trigger tower abilities: Volley, Frost Nova, Barrage and Surge
Endless Survival
• The siege never ends: waves keep growing and a colossus leads every 10th wave
• Beat your best wave and climb the Endless Siege leaderboard
Weekly Events and Daily Rewards
• A different rule set every week: Glass Cannon, Swarm Week, Boss Rush, Iron Tide, Quicksilver or Golden Hour
• Win the weekly event for bonus gold
• Daily challenge: one shared map seed per day
• 7-day login calendar that pays gold every day you return
12 Bosses and 25+ Creatures per Map
• Every map has its own bestiary that arrives in themed waves
• Swarms, runners, tanks, ranged casters, flyers, healers and tower hunters
• Three hunters and one guardian per map, with multi-phase attacks and clear warnings
Three Biomes
• Ruined Citadel, Ashen Foundry and Bone Marsh, each with its own terrain, hazards and music
Progression
• Permanent upgrades, achievements and Google Play Games leaderboards
• Codex: unlock the bestiary, boss files and map chronicles
Play Anywhere
• Fully playable offline
• Light, dark and AMOLED themes
• English, Turkish, Arabic and Persian
Optional Purchases
• Ad-Free Edition: removes ads for good and adds 500 gold
• Commander Bundle: Ad-Free Edition plus 3,000 gold
• Gold packs: 1,200, 3,500 or 8,500 gold for permanent upgrades
• Restore Purchases in the store and in Settings
The whole game is playable without purchases.
Privacy policy: https://serdevir91.github.io/privacy.html
Support: [email protected]
Survive the Horde
• Smooth touch controls with a virtual joystick, skill buttons and an evasive dash
• Active skills: Dragon Breath, Ember Bomb, Storm Lance, Earthshatter and more
• Orbital Blades, Arcane Bolts, Chain Lightning, Flamethrower and Fireball
• Draft relics, reroll or banish cards and evolve weapons into Fused Armaments
Build Your Tower Defense
• Planning time between siege waves, with a preview of the next wave and its path
• Shape the enemy path with walls and gates
• Ballista, Frost, Tesla and Mortar towers with targeting modes: First, Strongest, Nearest, Flyers
• Merge towers and pick a specialization: Sniper or Repeater, Glacier or Brittle Frost, Napalm or Cluster, Chain or Overload
• Trigger tower abilities: Volley, Frost Nova, Barrage and Surge
Endless Survival
• The siege never ends: waves keep growing and a colossus leads every 10th wave
• Beat your best wave and climb the Endless Siege leaderboard
Weekly Events and Daily Rewards
• A different rule set every week: Glass Cannon, Swarm Week, Boss Rush, Iron Tide, Quicksilver or Golden Hour
• Win the weekly event for bonus gold
• Daily challenge: one shared map seed per day
• 7-day login calendar that pays gold every day you return
12 Bosses and 25+ Creatures per Map
• Every map has its own bestiary that arrives in themed waves
• Swarms, runners, tanks, ranged casters, flyers, healers and tower hunters
• Three hunters and one guardian per map, with multi-phase attacks and clear warnings
Three Biomes
• Ruined Citadel, Ashen Foundry and Bone Marsh, each with its own terrain, hazards and music
Progression
• Permanent upgrades, achievements and Google Play Games leaderboards
• Codex: unlock the bestiary, boss files and map chronicles
Play Anywhere
• Fully playable offline
• Light, dark and AMOLED themes
• English, Turkish, Arabic and Persian
Optional Purchases
• Ad-Free Edition: removes ads for good and adds 500 gold
• Commander Bundle: Ad-Free Edition plus 3,000 gold
• Gold packs: 1,200, 3,500 or 8,500 gold for permanent upgrades
• Restore Purchases in the store and in Settings
The whole game is playable without purchases.
Privacy policy: https://serdevir91.github.io/privacy.html
Support: [email protected]
What’s new
Version 2.0.3 · Updated November 8, 2026
Core Defender 2.0.3: - Fixed the hero flipping left and right and seeming to teleport while attacking. - The hero now keeps facing the way they walk; small joystick drift no longer turns them around.
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