Bloons TD 5
BANGER · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 17.1h
- Value
- $0.58/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 54 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 11 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 73 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).
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.
The drop-off
61% start to 1% 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
153 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
Who is adding new Achievements to this game in 2026. Do you know how long I spent getting them all? Blasphemy.
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.
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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Bloons TD 5 scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/306020/bloons-td-5The 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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