Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense

Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense

Fair · Strategy · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
94% positive

Recent reviews trending down: 72% over the last 30 days against 94% all-time.

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Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
94%
10,908 reviews, as of Sep 19
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM., 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

It's payback time! Lead your mighty dark army and make the Kingdom tremble with every step. Build powerful towers, choose your arsenal for destruction, and find the deadliest combination - train legendary heroes and lead them to victory!
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
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value, est. length~$1.25/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
Recent reviews72% (30 days)
Trending down vs lifetime, a small dip
For context
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds3 of 800 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

September 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $7.99. 45 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense ($0.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD ($12.99, scores 64).

Players rate it 94 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 72 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 441 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

6 years after release, 994 people were playing it when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:46 UTC.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

93% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

994 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense scores 67/100 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/1367550/kingdom-rush-vengeance-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 19, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIronhide Game Studio
PublisherIronhide Game Studio
GenreStrategy
Released2020
Achievements90