Northend Tower Defense
Skip · Action · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 4.3h
- Value
- $0.93/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($5.19)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($3.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 VRAM (2GB) or Radeon HD 5970, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 37 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $3.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 34. The current cut is what makes it a 38.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 29 percent on value. Taur ($24.99, scores 41) outscores it, and so does Door Kickers 2: Task Force North ($24.99, scores 87). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 627 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 520 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.3 hours. Doing everything runs 15, 3.5 times as long.
The drop-off
76% start to 4% rarestNo 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 02:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Game is a broken mess, cant even complete the tutorial as its bugs and wont let you select the commander.
is one of those games I find strangely difficult to review, mainly because it did not leave me with either real excitement or total disappointment. The gameplay is very straightforward. You defend a position using the resources the game gives you. It works, it is easy to understand, and it is accessible from the start. One of its main weaknesses, however, is the way progression is handled. Quite often you end up...
Game is unfinished, it is impossible to progress past the 8 or 9th level, Graphics are nice, but thats about it, game play is VERY shallow, just amass units and spam call ins. Game breaking bugs are still there after two years of teh dev saying they will fix it. But as always, devs have moved on and dont support or finish old games.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Northend Tower Defense scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1669170/northend-tower-defenseReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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