Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)
BANGER · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 9.6h 40.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 3,515 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Defender's Quest is a Tower-Defense/RPG Hybrid tightly focuses on three things: tactical depth, customization, and story
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, N/A, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in January 2014. 48 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga ($6.99, scores 91) and Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark ($29.99, scores 75) both come in lower.
$46.73 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)
This site sampled 362 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 152 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
9.6 hours to finish it, 41 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
68% start to 2% 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
What players say
I am really enjoying this Tower Defense TD game. The Heroes and Writing feel great. Do know there are some random bug issues (like hiring heroes and their appearance changing) or random crashes. The latter little more annoying, but unless doing an endless run the game autosaves frequently enough you shouldn't lose progress. Side note, be sure to READ THE JOURNAL. Adds more entertaining context to the game
1 more review, not recommended
Decent tower defense that I'm surprised i missed when it was newer. Unfortunately it crashes way too much for an unqualified recommendation. 3 hours in and probably 10 crashes to desktop already. 3/5 for that. 4.5/5 if not.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/218410/defender-s-quest-valley-of-the-forgotten-dx-editionReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.