Bloons TD 5
BANGER · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9970% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.58/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 12,029
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 17.1h
- To 100%
- 241.9h 14.1x the story
- Achievements
- 125
Price and sales
- Sales
- 55 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 November 2019
- Sale every
- 80d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 134 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
55 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Bloons TD 6 ($13.99, scores 87) and Bloons TD Battles (free, scores 74).
More about Bloons TD 5
3 of the 595 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 549 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 17.1 hours. Doing everything runs 242, 14 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.99 (60% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
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
What players say
Who is adding new Achievements to this game in 2026. Do you know how long I spent getting them all? Blasphemy.
2 more reviews
Bloons TD 5 is honestly almost better than Bloons TD 6 in some ways. It may be the older and less flashy game, but there are several things it does that I still prefer over its successor. One of the biggest is progression. Almost everything can be earned simply by playing the game, with only a few tower skins sitting outside of that progression. It makes unlocking things feel much more rewarding and gives you a...
NOT as good as BTD6, which makes it less impressive to come back to. However, a very nice, classic of the game with simpler but fun gimmicks and my beloved bloonchipper.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Five-star tower defense with unrivaled depth and replayability. The Bloons are back in full HD glory and this time they mean business! Build awesome towers, choose your favorite upgrades, hire new Special Agents, and pop every last invading Bloon in the most popular tower defense series in history.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible, ATI, Nvidia or Intel HD, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bloons TD 5 scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/306020/bloons-td-5Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.