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Mobile game · 2021

Core Defense

A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Survive fifty waves without losing your core. Choose a reward, update your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable through permadeath, randomization and challenging difficulty levels. Just one more wave, just one more run!

Estimated daily players

~1,4000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 1408.3K

Estimated total players

~28,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 14K55K

See what's trending

Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Apr 21, 2021AndroidiOS

What the estimate rests on

  • Google Play 56%
  • App Store 29%
  • Steam 15%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Core Defense, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Google Play, App Store, Steam, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~1,400

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 1408.3K

No source reports a live count for this game, so this is a share of the total player base — a genre assumption rather than an observation, which is why the range is wide.

Estimated total players

~28,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 14K55K

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Core Defense per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~32,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Core Defense where it is sold.

Google Play ratings

1,087

Average rating
4.1
Installs
50K+

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Ratings left on the Android listing. It is the broadest signal in the catalogue — about half of all games here have a Play page.

App Store ratings

459

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
4.7

Ratings left on the iOS listing, read from Apple’s public lookup endpoint.

Steam players in game

0

Reviews
368

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Only the games with a PC port appear here, but where Steam does report it is a real concurrent-player count rather than a proxy for one.

Community signals

How many people gather around Core Defense outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Twitch viewers

0

Live channels
0

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

People watching this game on Twitch right now, summed across every live channel in its category.

Not tracked for Core Defense: Discord, Reddit, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Core Defense?

We estimate that about 28,000 people have played Core Defense — plausibly between 14K and 55K. Around 1,400 of them play on a given day, in a range of 140 and 8.3K. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Google Play, App Store, Steam and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Core Defense still active?

Yes. Core Defense is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Core Defense player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.

When was Core Defense released?

Core Defense was released on April 21, 2021 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is Core Defense available on?

Core Defense is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from Google Play and App Store (iPhone).

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