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ehmprah · 2020 · 79 % positive of 361

24 games that play like Core Defense and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Core Defense: Prelude, Elements and build and Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD.

Player tags

  • Tower Defense
  • Difficult
  • Replay Value
  • Deckbuilding
  • Minimalist
  • Casual
  • Rogue-like
  • Strategy

At a glance

What games like Core Defense have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Core Defense: Tower Defense (23 of 24), Rogue-like (13) and Replay Value (7).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2026, 20 of them after Core Defense (2020).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Emberward (97 % positive of 2,685).
  • 4 games both play and look like Core Defense, among them Core Defense: Prelude, Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD and Refactor.

By gameplay

Plays like Core Defense

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Tower Dominion83 % positive of 1,843Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Strategy
  2. Outhold86 % positive of 1,865
  3. Nordhold89 % positive of 2,140Shared: Tower Defense · Replay Value · Rogue-like
  4. Tower Escape82 % positive of 390Shared: Tower Defense · Deckbuilding · Rogue-like
  5. Super Sanctum TD86 % positive of 1,553Shared: Tower Defense · Difficult · Replay Value
  6. Hexguardian80 % positive of 619Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Strategy
  7. 变量 Variables86 % positive of 1,005Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Strategy
  8. Isle of Arrows79 % positive of 996Shared: Tower Defense · Minimalist · Rogue-like
  9. Broken Universe - Tower Defense90 % positive of 300Shared: Tower Defense · Deckbuilding · Strategy
  10. ORX71 % positive of 627Shared: Tower Defense · Difficult · Replay Value
  11. Cube Chaos96 % positive of 509Shared: Tower Defense · Replay Value · Minimalist
  12. Defense Grid: The Awakening96 % positive of 5,142Shared: Tower Defense · Replay Value · Strategy

By look

Looks like Core Defense

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Variables 290 % positive of 449
  2. Reassembly94 % positive of 3,960
  3. Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD76 % positive of 209
  4. Vectorio81 % positive of 357
  5. Starward Rogue90 % positive of 484
  6. Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense91 % positive of 3,674
  7. Hade89 % positive of 331
  8. 异常 | Exception97 % positive of 1,662
  9. Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor79 % positive of 2,089
  10. Duskers90 % positive of 2,673
  11. FLERP86 % positive of 389
  12. Istrolid87 % positive of 2,662

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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