Defense Grid: The Awakening
BANGER · Strategy · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.88/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 5,397
- Critics
- 81 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11.4h
- To 100%
- 104h 9.1x the story
- Finish
- 25% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 87
Price and sales
- Sales
- 52 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 December 2014
- Sale every
- 92d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 36 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to 25% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 52 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Super Sanctum TD ($4.99, scores 74) and Sanctum 2 ($2.99, scores 82), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $15.39. It costs $9.99.
More about Defense Grid: The Awakening
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. None of the 386 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 203 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
11.4 hours to finish it, 104 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 9.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.99 (60% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It's been quite a while ago but this was a great Tower Defense type game. I enjoyed playing many of the levels multiple times
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Video: DirectX 9 video card with shader 2 support such as the following:, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Defense Grid: The Awakening scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/18500/defense-grid-the-awakeningReviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.