Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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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.
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!
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How to read this
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- 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.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in August 2016. It has been discounted 77 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 45 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 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 Frontiers - Tower Defense ($9.99, scores 75).
Steam's global achievement data puts 59 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 535 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 626 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
94% start to 59% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
214 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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-defenseThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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