corectl
Deploy up to six building types to shape enemy routes. Combine wave rewards into devastating chain reactions and keep the core online in this 2D…
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
Games like Hold the Core
Want something that feels replayable and tense the way Hold the Core does? These games are a good place to start.
corectl
Deploy up to six building types to shape enemy routes. Combine wave rewards into devastating chain reactions and keep the core online in this 2D roguelite tower defense.
Replayable, Tense, Minimalist
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.49Core 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.
Replayable, Tense
71% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Core Defense
A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!
Replayable, Tense, Minimalist
77% of 342 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Rogue Tower
A tower defense game where the path keeps growing and you decide where it grows. Place towers on high ground, steer enemy routes, and build your defense from random card draws. With 400 cards and upgrades, no two runs play the same.
Replayable, Minimalist
82% of 5,794 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$14.99Shapebreaker - Tower Defense Deckbuilder
A fusion of tower defense games and roguelike deckbuilders. Use your cards to build towers and to upgrade them in unique ways. Gain rewards to customize your deck, defense and playstyle. Break the shapes before they break you!
Replayable, Minimalist
79% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Hallway Defender
Hallway Defender is a roguelite tower defense where you defend your base from an endless wave of fellow classmates. With over 25 different towers and even more upgrades and effects there are infinite ways to set up your own defenses.
Replayable, Tense, Fast-paced
100% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Tower Tactics: Liberation
Tower Tactics: Liberation turns your deck into a defense. Cards are the towers you deploy and the spells you cast, so every drafted card reshapes how a map plays out. With 18 decks, 150-plus cards and procedurally generated routes, each run asks a different question: which towers, which spells, and how greedy dare you be against the Salkoth?
Replayable, Minimalist
88% of 1,235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$12.99Roll and Hold
A roguelite tower defense where every tower is a card you keep all run, and a duplicate levels it up on the spot. Chain elemental reactions, find relics that change your plans, and face 12 bosses with their own mechanics on procedural voxel battlefields. Solo or 2-4 player online and LAN co-op.
Replayable
$9.99Bubblecore: Survivors
Bubblecore: Survivors is an endless hex-grid tower defense roguelite. Pop bubbles to claim resources—and unleash the monsters trapped inside. Build towers, collect artifacts, create powerful synergies, and defend the Citadel while deciding how much risk to take.
Replayable, Tense, Minimalist
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Deck Vs Doom
A roguelite deck-building tower defense where every card you play shapes the battlefield! Draft a unique deck, summon powerful towers and traps, and unleash spells against waves of enemies. Explore with synergies, stack artifacts, and watch your strategy evolve as you forge the ultimate defense!
Replayable
100% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Cartridge Defense
Cartridge Defense is a tower defense game with over 300 distinct collectible cards that you will use to create your own decks to defend against robots in the cyberpunk inspired future. Play cards (cartridges) to spawn towers, upgrades, special abilities and more in a campaign or rogue-like mode.
Replayable
90% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Card Conquest
Card Conquest is a Tower Defense game with Deckbuilding and Roguelite elements. Combine spells, towers and units to create a deck and defeat your enemies. Spend your resources wisely and find balance between offense and defense. Gather powerful relics that will enhance your cards.
Replayable
73% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Cheaper than Hold the Core
Core Defence
Core Defence is a tower defence game with roguelike elements.
71% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Bubblecore: Survivors
Bubblecore: Survivors is an endless hex-grid tower defense roguelite. Pop bubbles to claim resources—and unleash the monsters trapped inside.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Castles on Clouds
A Roguelike Tower Defense game set on a user controlled procedurally generated island.
100% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Cluster - Roguelike Tower Defense
A roguelike tower defense game where you strengthen your single tower through a tactical cluster board.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Prismhold
A card-driven tower defense: draft towers from your deck every wave, merge three copies to evolve them up to VII and mix 14 elements to survive…
60% of 5 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Coreward
Coreward is an incremental game where you use shields to protect yourself from incoming enemies and use their remains to become more powerful.
73% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
FLERP
Fend off hordes of enemies in this arcade tower defense roguelite with autobattler elements.
86% of 401 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hexagonal Tower
[Hexagonal Tower] is a tower defense game with cards and roguelike random elements.
53% of 53 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Core Idle TD
Protect your base against endless waves. Collect cores from bosses, unlock permanent upgrades, and prestige resets to push further.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Deckslinger
Deckslinger is a card-slinging deck-building roguelike. Use cards in real time to wipe out waves of enemies in order to defend and upgrade your town.
96% of 26 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
Hidden gems like Hold the Core
Emberward
Lay out a blocky path for the monsters, line it with towers, and keep your campfire burning through fresh runs every time.
96% of 4,473 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 183$19.99
Mineral Defense
Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation.
90% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Repel The Rifts
Defend your mining camp against waves of alien creatures, drafting new towers and upgrades each turn-based night.
81% of 403 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$9.74
Nordhold
Defend a grim Nordic settlement with towers and a wandering hero, one short run at a time.
86% of 2,922 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99
Crystal Guardians TD
Crystal Guardians is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight of waves and defend the world crystal.
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Tower Tactics: Liberation
Draft cards into towers and spells, hold procedurally generated routes against the Salkoth, and rebuild your strategy every run.
88% of 1,235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$12.99
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids
A medieval fantasy tower defense with roguelite runs: you place towers on a grid, juggle resources and layouts, then stack random augments and cards…
70% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$12.99
Guardians of Holme
Guardians of Holme is a tower defense game with deckbuilding and roguelite elements.
72% of 120 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Rogue Tower
Steer enemy routes across a growing maze of towers, one card draw at a time.
82% of 5,794 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$14.99
Defend the Rook
A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land!
73% of 189 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Core Defense
A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat.
77% of 342 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Prime World: Defenders
Fight off hordes of monstrous mutants created from a strange cataclysmic event in the new tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders.
78% of 728 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Newest games like Hold the Core
Repel The Rifts
Defend your mining camp against waves of alien creatures, drafting new towers and upgrades each turn-based night.
81% of 403 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$9.74
Tower Tactics II
Defend your base with drafted tower and spell cards, stacking status effects against waves of Sal'koth in pixel-art space.
96% of 102 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$14.99
Card Conquest
Card Conquest is a Tower Defense game with Deckbuilding and Roguelite elements.
73% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Emberward
Lay out a blocky path for the monsters, line it with towers, and keep your campfire burning through fresh runs every time.
96% of 4,473 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 183$19.99
Bubblecore: Survivors
Bubblecore: Survivors is an endless hex-grid tower defense roguelite. Pop bubbles to claim resources—and unleash the monsters trapped inside.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Gods & Gore
Play as a god defending your city in this roguelike tower defense game.
81% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids
A medieval fantasy tower defense with roguelite runs: you place towers on a grid, juggle resources and layouts, then stack random augments and cards…
70% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$12.99
Cluster - Roguelike Tower Defense
A roguelike tower defense game where you strengthen your single tower through a tactical cluster board.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Into the Slimy Mines
A roguelike tower defense with a card-driven twist. Build your deck, carve out tunnels, and deploy defences directly into the path of the swarm.
100% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$10.39
RealmGuard
Create your ultimate build in Realmguard, a roguelite tower defense!
100% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.86
Coreward
Coreward is an incremental game where you use shields to protect yourself from incoming enemies and use their remains to become more powerful.
73% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Slot Theory
A roguelike tower defense built around permanent choices. Draft one card each wave, commit to six tower slots, and stack modifiers that change how…
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$9.99