Super Sanctum TD
Worth it · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $0.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 1,584
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.1h
- To 100%
- 26.3h 3.2x the story
- Finish
- 11% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 85 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.39 March 2014
- Sale every
- 46d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
72% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
85 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Sanctum ($9.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Let Them Come ($7.99, scores 60).
More about Super Sanctum TD
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 299 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
8.1 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. 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
Isometric tower defense for Sanctum fans. Act as a simplified version of the main game. Only towers can be used. Balance is good I think - seems like nothing is overpowered except my skills of course. Worth checking if you crave for more Sanctum even in simplest form.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
K-pop fans are coming. We need to defend our home! You are John Pump, a man with a good music taste. You have alerted the horde... fans of BTS. Your mission? Survive. This tower defense game is inspired by real life events. John Pump survived... but at what cost? But seriously, this is a fantastic top down spin-off of Sanctum. Short but sweet. Simple and fun. One of the best TD games right up there with Alien...
"Blocking the path is unfair!" enemies with flight just skip the path and go straight to the point, why aren't the devs telling them that's unfair to me? Oh wait, maybe something being "unfair" to an enemy doesn't really matter when it's war. Balancing is abhorrent. Why are there 2 shield values when they're never explained? Oh, and WHY DOES THE GAME EARRAPE ME FOR WINNING? That seems like either a punishment or a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX-Compatible, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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Cite this score
Super Sanctum TD scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/235250/super-sanctum-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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.