Artisan TD
Worth it · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $16.99.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 42% ($9.85)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 55% ($7.64)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 Ti / Radeon R7 360, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Artisan TD is a puzzle-oriented Tower Defense game where you must survive by building mazes.
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
The lowest price on record is $7.64, set in March 2026. It has been discounted 17 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 42 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense ($7.49, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Element TD 2 - Tower Defense ($14.99, scores 56).
Of the 557 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 396 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
15 hours to finish it, 52 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
At 15 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
88% start to 3% 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
18 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Mediocre game. Not fun at all. I was expecting a decent TD game, but it is just a boring puzzle game. One mistake and not possible to win the stage. No tower upgrades not real creativity.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Artisan TD scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2224640/artisan-tdReviews 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 1.
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