Core Defense Lite

One of my favorites. I haven't seen this in a tower defense game and NEEDED it. Idle clicking economy and tower defense loop. Full version can be made if people enjoy it enough.

DEV NOTE: The name "core defender" is a generic name given by ai to many similar projects. This is a prototype and feedback is needed. 

Ai description:

One Core. Endless waves. Everything in between is up to you.

Core Defense Lite is an idle-clicker tower-defense roguelite about holding the line. Deploy your Core at the heart of the arena, then defend it as enemies pour in from every side — click to blast them apart, let your Core and upgrades handle the rest, and survive wave after escalating wave. Anything that reaches the Core chips it down. Let too many slip through and it's CORE BREACHED.

Every run you rebuild your power from scratch — and every run, you come back stronger.

Features

• 🎯 Click + idle + tower defense — actively click down enemies for coins and damage, or let your automated Core and turrets hold the perimeter while the numbers climb.
• 🌳 274 upgrades across 5 branches — Offense, Defense, Economy, Stability, and Utility. Spec into a glass-cannon nuke, an unbreakable bulwark, a coin-printing economy engine, or anything in between.
• 🔥❄️☠️⚡ Four elemental paths — stack Burn, Frost, Venom, and Lightning into devastating damage-over-time and crowd-control combos. Venom melts, Frost freezes, Fire incinerates, Lightning chains.
• 🔋 Deeply customizable Core — pick your firing mode (rapid fire, multi-shot, piercing, splash, crit) and bolt on effect riders like nova, chain, slow, and pierce. Then set your targeting priority: Closest, Strongest, Fastest, or Weakest.
• 💎 Permanent upgrades — bank gems between runs and carry lasting power into the next attempt.
• ⚛️ Collapse the Timeline — when you've squeezed a run dry, prestige to earn Cores, reset, and push toward the Singularity. Each collapse sends the next run further.
• ♾️ Adaptive, endless escalation — enemies scale to your power, so the threat never stops growing. Claim victory, then keep going.

Deploy the Core. Hold the line. Collapse the timeline and do it all again — bigger.