Relic Guardian - Tower Defense

Relic Guardian - Tower Defense

Fair · RPG · 2025

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
95% positive
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Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Last discount ended
24 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
1,139 reviews, as of Sep 24
Released
2025
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet
Completionist
10h
100% (HowLongToBeat)

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

"Relic Guardian" is a fantasy style strategy tower defense game. As the builder on the battlefield, summon a variety of defense towers and spells with reliable hero companions to complete this epic and guarding adventure!
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 RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value, est. length~$2.50/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
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 351 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

The lowest price on record is $13.99, set in June 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 3 months tracked here, most recently in August 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Love is All Around 2 ($9.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Tap Ninja - Idle game (free, scores 57).

Of the 351 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

95% start to 12% 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Relic Guardian - Tower Defense scores 58/100 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/2064610/relic-guardian-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 24, price as of Oct 1.

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Details

DeveloperMystrigger
PublisherMystrigger
GenreRPG
Released2025
Achievements42