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City Defense Z is an interesting little roguelike that is slowly improving after a tough launch. The first big optimization patch is now in, which should greatly improve the overall performance of the game.

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This is the second part of the roadmap revealed in September, focusing heavily on bug fixes and visual improvements. The latest hotfix for City Defense Z addresses several issues: it fixes rare game freezes, resolves problems with health-bar visuals and ability reuse delays, corrects improper damage scaling in higher difficulties, and ensures that some UI elements now display correctly. It also improves online session matching reliability and restores missing audio in certain cutscenes. Furthermore, all small images on the Steam Deck are now fixed.

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City Defense Z is $9.99 on Steam and rated Playable due to small in-game text, incorrect controller icons, needing to manually bring up the virtual keyboard, and needing a community controller configuration.

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Michael Baker
As a British guy in his mid-thirties, Michael has played and reviewed games as long as he can remember. Narrative Designer at Grimlore Games 2019-2020 (Spellforce 3 franchise, Plarium Games 2023 as Lore Editor). His favourite game genres are strategy, RPG, simulation and RTS.
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