D.O.T. Defence
Fair · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8h 40h to 100%
- Value
- $1.87/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 223 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map. Challenge yourself in the single-player campaign following the Chroma Wars, survive relentless waves in solo defense, or battle it out in local matches against friends and AI bots. Victory comes with the last HQ standing!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 6200, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
14 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Warpips ($2.54, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Line War ($24.99, scores 35).
More about D.O.T. Defence
The main story runs 8 hours. Doing everything runs 40, 5.0 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
26% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 02:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
As someone who grew up playing Advance Wars, I could immediately see where this game gets a lot of its inspiration from. The problem is that despite all the new ideas it tries to add, I'd still rather just go play Advance Wars. The first thing that nearly killed my interest was the tutorial. Tutorials are supposed to get players excited about a game's mechanics and hook them into the experience. Instead, this one...
1 more review, not recommended
Probably the second worst campaign I ever played. The zombies are fun but everything after is just complete garbage. You either play how the level was designed or you lose. On all difficulties. You also unlock things over time to use in the campaign. Doesn't matter. Got a cool ability? Don't care. Got a cool new building? Hope it works into the level. If not, you're not using it. The ending level was the biggest...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
D.O.T. Defence scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3124850/d-o-t-defenceReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.