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Watch trailer on Steam ↗CoreBreaker: Desktop Swarm
Furistic · Published by Furistic
Positive — 93% positive (15 reviews) · 51 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
A corner screen incremental brick-breaker where bouncing cores destroy endless swarms. Let it run in the corner of your screen while you work or jump into fullscreen and take control yourself. Unlock new Cores, expand your skill tree, survive endless waves.
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Indie, Simulation, Casual · 2026 · More under £5 games
About this game
CoreBreaker: Desktop Swarm is a minimalist idle incremental brick-breaker game built to live on your desktop. Hostile robots are flooding the system. Wave after wave march down the corridor toward you. Your arsenal of bouncing Cores is all that stands between order and collapse. You build the defense. Then you watch it work.
Play Your Way: Corner or Full-Screen
Build it. Deploy it. Walk away. Upgrade your skill tree, unlock new Core types, then let CoreBreaker handle the rest. Run it in a corner of your screen while you work, browse, or do anything else. It plays itself. You just make it stronger.
Or take full control. Switch to full screen any time. Aim your Cores manually, react to boss waves, push further than idle mode can take you. Same build, same upgrades, completely different energy.
Your arsenal never stops growing. Seven Core types. Each with its own upgrade tree. Fire that spreads and explodes. Ice that freezes entire formations. Lightning that chains across six enemies at once. Laser that wipes whole rows in a single shot. Every upgrade changes how the game plays, not just how hard it hits.
The waves never stop either. Infinite enemies. Infinite scaling. Boss every fifth wave. When you die, you carry your multipliers into the next run and go further than before. There is no finish line. There is only further.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7 (64-bit) or newer
- Processor: Dual Core 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated graphics or DirectX 11 compatible GPU
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 450 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Quad Core 2.5 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Mid-range DirectX 11 compatible GPU
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 450 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Supported Languages
Latest news
Community & EventsOfficial
CoreBreaker: Desktop Swarm Joins the Pins & Pegs Fest!
We’re excited to announce that CoreBreaker: Desktop Swarm is officially participating in the Pins & Pegs Fest!To celebrate the event, we've updated the game with powerful new mechanics and progression tweaks to help you clear higher waves right from your desktop:Two New Cores: Shift your strategy with the newly added Drill Core and Pulse Core! Pierce through enemy lines, lock down targets with freeze effects, and build massive damage synergies across your screen.Expanded Progression: Scale your overall power with new global damage multipliers, an increased XP level cap, and dynamic late-game wave scaling.New Achievements: Try out the new core builds and hunt down a fresh batch of Steam achievements.Thank you for playing and supporting the game! We’d love to hear how you're liking the new setups - share your thoughts and suggestions in our DISCORD (https://discord.gg/gsCTgbRtN9)Read full article on Community Announcements (Furistic)Patch NotesOfficial
Major Update: New Drill Core Added, Expanded Progression & New Achievements
Meet the Drill Core, our newest addition to the game built for high-impact crowd control!The Drill Core phases straight through a set number of enemies before reverting to standard bouncing mechanics until it returns to you and resets. Upon hitting an enemy after its phase pass, it triggers a radius freeze. Through upgrades, you can even unlock a chance to freeze enemies in their tracks while it phases through them. Alongside the new core, we’ve also rolled out a round of progression tweaks and fresh content:New Achievements: Test out new strategies and hunt down a fresh set of Steam achievements.Global Damage Multiplier: Scale your overall DPS across all active cores.Higher XP Level Cap: Raised the max level cap for the XP Multiplier so you can stack kill-XP much higher.Dynamic Wave Scaling: Backend XP thresholds now scale down as waves increase, helping you level up faster during deep runs.Jump back into the swarm, test out the Drill Core, and let us know your thoughts and suggestions on Discord (https://discord.gg/gsCTgbRtN9)Read full article on Community Announcements (Furistic)Patch NotesOfficial
Small Patch
Localization for the newly added Pulse Core, and its skill tree has been updated and is now live. Thank you for your continued support, and stay tuned for more updates!Read full article on Community Announcements (Furistic)Patch NotesOfficial
New Core Added - Game Update
The Pulse Core has been added along with its own skill tree expansion.This Core periodically releases powerful pulses that damage enemies within its pulse radius, adding a new way to clear waves and create new build combinations. New Achievements3 new achievements have been added for the Pulse Core. Localization UpdateLocalization for this new content will be added in a future small patch. Stay tuned for more updates! Have ideas or suggestions for features you would like to see in the game? Join our Discord and share your thoughts with us. Thanks for playing!Read full article on Community Announcements (Furistic)Patch NotesOfficial
Update Patch Notes
Bug Fixes: - Fixed an issue where the Ghost Walker achievement would not unlock. - Minor backend stability improvements. Thank you all for the feedback and for playing the game! Please make sure your game is updated to the latest version. If the game runs smoothly for you now, leaving a quick Steam review would help our small indie team out a ton! Thanks for playing!Read full article on Community Announcements (Furistic)
