Anomaly Defenders
Skip · Action · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 9.5h
- Value
- $1.05/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Geforce 9600 GS, Radeon HD4000, Shader Model 3.0, 512 MB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was October 2015. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 12 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Anomaly: Warzone Earth ($9.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Anomaly 2 ($14.99, scores 44).
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 78 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 214 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026.
Finishing takes 9.5 hours; clearing it takes 25, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
24% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Thought I was defending a base turns out I was directing disco robots now I'm the world's first alien DJ
Good TD game for casual playing here and there, took 25 hours to beat on all difficulty and to get all tech points. A good game to pickup on sale and play when the internets out or no ones online to play with in other games.
Solid tower defense game. Part of the Anomaly Warzone series but this time we attack humans. Prepare for meteor showers and more chaotic gameplay where you have to repair your towers regularly. Various towers each for a different occasion. Visual side is decent. Soundtrack is great. Recommended obviously, duh.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Anomaly Defenders scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/294750/anomaly-defendersThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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