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Keyreal · Published by Keyreal · Official site ↗
Mostly Positive — 71% positive (14 reviews) · 48 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Citadelic is a base building and defending strategy game with roguelite elements. Survive against waves of constantly evolving enemies while expanding your base and managing resources.
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Action, Indie, Strategy, Casual · 2023 · More under £5 games
Expand and fortify your base while battling waves of increasingly tough enemies in Citadelic. Developed by Keyreal, this strategy game blends roguelite elements with casual gameplay for a unique survival experience.
About this game
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.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 7
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.3, 1 GB
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Recommended
- OS: Microsoft® Windows® 10
- Processor: 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.3, 1 GB
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Minor update: added more tips
Added a tip that recommends starting a new run on a higher difficulty mode after surviving 20 waves.Read full article on Community Announcements (KEYREAL)Patch NotesOfficial
Minor update: camera scrolling speed and more camera tips
Added an option to control the camera's movement speed when moving your mouse to the edges of the screen. Added additional tips for moving, zooming and rotating the camera.Read full article on Community Announcements (KEYREAL)AnnouncementsOfficial
Citadelic is now available
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. Enjoy!Read full article on Community Announcements (KEYREAL)AnnouncementsOfficial
Citadelic releases on February 17
Play the demo and add the game to your wishlist!Read full article on Community Announcements (KEYREAL)Patch NotesOfficial
Citadelic demo update: stats and UX improvements
A new update to the demo version of Citadelic has been released. It includes the following changes: Statistics are shown at the end of each run. Active upgrades and augments of a structure are now visible when moving your cursor over it. Camera rotation sensitivity can be changed in the Settings. The tooltip there also explains that middle mouse button can be held in-game to rotate the camera. Game controller hints are not visible if the player is using a mouse when a controller is plugged in. Minor text changes when selecting modifiers and difficulty. Camera is zoomed in closer to the game area by default. Structure customization tooltips now show a hint that right click can be used to unselect the structure. Keyboard can be used to close in-game tooltips and panels (backspace by default).Read full article on Community Announcements (KEYREAL)






