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Citadelic

$9.99
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Developer:
Keyreal
Publisher:
Keyreal
Platforms:
Windows
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About This Game

Survive against waves of constantly evolving enemies while expanding your base and managing resources. Make your choices wisely and adapt your strategy, because every run is different from the last.

Key Features


  • Build and expand your base at the start of each wave. Defend your main fortress and survive as long as you can!
  • Face the onslaught of different types of constantly evolving enemies.
  • Use your intel to see the characteristics of incoming enemies. Adapt your strategy and build defenses that exploit the attackers' weaknesses.
  • Choose a reward from five random options at the end of each wave. Take advantage of augments, temporary effects and resource shipments by choosing the reward that fits your strategy.
  • Receive ore by defeating enemies and building ore mines. Use it to build new structures, and repair and upgrade existing ones. Balance your investments between defenses and resource production.
  • Generate tech points by building weapon factories, chemical laboratories and science facilities. Decide which resources you need the most, and protect your production buildings from the attackers.
  • Spend resources to upgrade your structures and enhance their properties, or upgrade them into new building types.
  • Receive augments as rewards, and install them on your structures to take advantage of their unique bonuses. Choosing the right augments for your strategy is essential.
  • Use skills during battle to support your defenses in a pinch. Upgrade your skills with ore and enhance them with augments.
  • The game is played in short sessions, and each run is different from the last. Earn experience by surviving more waves and unlock new base types for future runs.
  • Unlock optional gameplay modifiers, which will give you one advantage and one disadvantage. Use various combinations of modifiers to alter the gameplay and enable all kinds of new strategies.
  • Unlock harder difficulty modes, which affect the enemies' evolution process. Survive as long as possible against overwhelming odds by exploiting every weakness you can.
  • View and analyze detailed statistics of your runs, and earn medals by completing optional challenges.

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User Reviews

Mixed
13 user reviews
69%
Positive
1 hrs at review
Not Recommended

The basis of this game is a lot of fun, but it gets insanely tedious after about 20 rounds. Don't even think about rounds 40+. With some tweaks, this could be a really good game. I'd say for $10, this is a pass, but at half-off, you'll probably get enough fun out of it. Follow this one and see if the updates make it better before you make a decision. Definitely has potential.

9 helpful
3 hrs at review
Not Recommended

So the game has some potential but after playing a few hours there's a serious design flaw in the playability. It seems as if you have to defend from several different types of attackers (stealth, mechanical, shielded, organic, flying etc) from every direction from every location since there are no walls or paths or anything. The range on the towers is too small so you simply can't build enough towers to defend from all the different classes of invaders. It's too bad because as far as I can figure, it's an unfixable flaw with the game. Couple that with the upgrades coming too slow (only 1 per level possible max). If you have 40 towers, and they each have 3-4 augment slots, then it would take you 140 levels to fill all your augment slots.

6 helpful
6 hrs at review
Not Recommended

To preface this recommendation, I would like to say that I am not a fan of Steam's recommend system. In the game's current state, it would be more accurate to say "Wait for a sale or wait for some updates." Here's why: The Good: The game's good parts are good, but nothing to write home about. IMO it doesn't outweigh the bad. - The game is sleek and runs well. Performance is never an issue even on higher waves. - The game is fun. It's a simplistic tower defense game that uses a hexagon pattern as a layout to place down towers. Has multiple types of enemies, ranging from slow/heavy armor tanks, to fast flying stealth enemies. - Plenty of replay value here. There are a ton of modifiers for the game, five difficulties ranging from easy to brutal, and the evolution mechanic makes every run unique. No more memorizing the waves like in Bloons. - Some base customization. You can purchase different pieces for your base that change it's look, while also tweaking the bonuses you get from cer...

5 helpful
1 hrs at review
Recommended

A very interesting Tower Defense title where you are essentially surviving kamikaze attacks from various enemies. Played the demo and was almost immediately hooked, albeit my brain was hurting - plenty to think about and juggle. You will have to balance your resources between structures, upgrades and repairs. You are always going to lose in a situation where you hold on as long as possible. As you expand your base you have complete freedom to move your structures to (hopefully) optimum effect. I don't know whether interest will be held in the long term, but there is a good amount of content here. Perhaps a global leaderboard (besides individual) for the various levels might be appropriate.

3 helpful 1 funny
5 hrs at review
Recommended

No story, no gimmicks, just hardcore, hexed-based, plan-and-play tower defense. With fair scaling choices and cunning use of your buildings, progressively grow your bubble of and empire and push back the tide of alien critters and machines alike!

2 helpful
28 hrs at review
Recommended

SO ... I am going to recommend you buy this game at 5 dollars. I think they have built a game worthy of that price. This game is VERY simple. It's VERY easy to play. On normal, you could fall asleep and basically get to level 100 if your brain is attached. Once you unlock of few of the citadel upgrades and other upgrades it gets stupidly easy. On some settings you don't even need to kill enemies anymore. You can just build a huge shield wall and still earn lots of revenue. It's really just hard to lose. What I lose to is boredom. Waiting for levels to finish takes forever. I don't lose because I just quit playing. Took me two days to reach level 100 but it was never hard. Once you get the upgrade that slows down how fast the next wave spawns ... it's just too darn easy. Do it to get the stickers but lol don't replay it that way or you will hate this game. It does get far more challenging once you enter hard mode so that is very cool =) Developers: Please add a 4x and 8x fast forwar...

1 helpful
4 hrs at review
Recommended

i like it but dont know why.... its pretty fun to test diffrent strategies but the game itself is very small and you cant do much but i kind of like tower defense + rogue like (after each wave you can select a random artifact to implement into one of your towers) sadly some strategies are not valid on my pc because after placing like 600 towers, the game starts lagging if the price is acceptable for you and you like to have some fun time while watching anime or something like that, its worth a try. approx fun game time is 5-15 hours in the current state of the game (atm: 2023-02-19)

1 helpful

System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 7
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3, 1 GB
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: Microsoft® Windows® 10
  • Processor: 2.4 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3, 1 GB
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

FAQ

How much does Citadelic cost?

Citadelic costs $9.99.

What are the system requirements for Citadelic?

Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Processor: 2 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.3, 1 GB Storage: 200 MB available space Recommended: Recommended: OS: Microsoft® Windows® 10 Processor: 2.4 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.3, 1 GB Storage: 200 MB available space

What platforms is Citadelic available on?

Citadelic is available on Windows PC.

Is Citadelic worth buying?

Citadelic has 69% positive reviews from 13 players.

When was Citadelic released?

Citadelic was released on Feb 17, 2023.

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