Beware Planet Earth
Skip · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $2.49.
- Length
- 9.9h 28h to 100%
- Value
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 343 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each 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
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
About the game
Beware Planet Earth! is a beguiling mix of classic tower defense and time management coming to PC via Steam for the first time. Save your cows from the Martian invasion by building an effective defense using towers, traps and objects, and also by firing your Zapper directly at the invading force of little green men!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64 MB Video Card, 348 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 39 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 50 percent off still sits 152 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 41 percent on value. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Iron Marines ($14.99, scores 48) and Topple Tactics ($9.99, scores 66) both outscore it.
More about Beware Planet Earth
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The main story runs 9.9 hours. Doing everything runs 28, 2.8 times as long.
The drop-off
70% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
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2 more reviews
great game, not my first time playing this game, probably third or fourth time playing it. definitely recommend to try it. but i have a problem with beating this game completely in veteran mode because for me this is absurd, the game itself sometimes feels quite tough, specially on challenges and bonus levels, not even talking about story mode where you have to replay 46 levels again. me beefing with achievements...
Beware Planet Earth is a fun TD kind of like Plants vs Zombies. Some levels are really tough and you have to use a lot of strategy. There are several different kinds of towers and traps to choose from and many different kinds of aliens. Good fun!
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Beware Planet Earth scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/267340/beware-planet-earthReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.