Royal Defense

Royal Defense

Skip · Strategy · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
9.6h 18.9h to 100%
Value
$1.56/hr
Reviews
72% of 386 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Engagement3% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.56/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 152 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The castle needs a hero – hordes of trolls are surrounding it! Build towers, save money, learn spells - don't let the enemy in! Follow the exciting story of the dwarven kingdom's eternal struggle against the troll hordes, who want only to crush the dwarves and claim their territory.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 1.0GB of video RAM, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

94 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats gravilon ($2.99, scores 5).

More about Royal Defense

Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The drop-off

13% start to 3% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
3 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 18:57 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 3.5hFeb 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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メᵃʳᶜᵃᵈᵉ™ 💗Recommendedafter 1.2hDec 2023Read on Steam
Royal Defense is a mobile app tier barebones tower defense game from the copy + paste Steam polluters and shovelware spammers at 8Floor/Creobit. This time they got their hands on someone's browser/mobile app tower defense and are trying to scam PC gamers into thinking it's a PC game. Amusingly this is also on the Mac app store, where it's infested with microtransactions for "gems". That should tell you everything...
Obey the Fist!Not recommendedafter 3.0hFeb 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Royal Defense scores 28/100 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/291170/royal-defense
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGood Games
Publisher8Floor
GenreStrategy
Released2014
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements14