Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99. Typically $5.49 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 20,067
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: Length unknown, Cost per hour, est. length
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Finish
- 53% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 74
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 45% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 September 2026
- Sale every
- 45d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,057 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
95% start to 53% 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
It has been discounted 78 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 45 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition ($4.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense ($14.99, scores 65).
More about Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Steam's global achievement data puts 53 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 617 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 744 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM., 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 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/246420/kingdom-rush-tower-defenseReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.