Element TD 2 - Tower Defense

Element TD 2 - Tower Defense

Fair · Strategy · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
3,234 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1024 MB VRAM, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

Element TD 2 sees you combine powerful elements to create unique towers. Prove your defenses against challenging foes, and compete or cooperate with others to determine who has mastered the elements.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement0% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value, est. length~$1.87/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds12 of 579 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. 35 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Minion Masters (free, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Demigod ($9.99, scores 38).

Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. 12 of the 579 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 250 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

57% start to <1% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Players

45 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 20:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Element TD 2 - Tower Defense scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1018830/element-td-2-tower-defense
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperElement Studios
PublisherElement Studios
GenreStrategy
Released2021
Achievements456