Fort Defense
Skip · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 4.9h 12.3h to 100%
- Value
- $3.06/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 424 positive
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 15 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
About the game
All hands on deck! Pirate armada dead ahead! Take part in an uncompromising struggle repelling freebooters' assaults. Watch out, the enemy may catch the tide for ruining your fortress. Build towers, collect crystals, upgrade spells and believe in your victory!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 90 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bardbarian ($7.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Sniper 3D Assassin: Free to Play (free, scores 13).
More about Fort Defense
4.9 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
11% start to 5% 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 10, 00:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Barely OK Tower Defence Game with bad DLCs What this game is: A Tower Defense game that is very easy and works without a hitch. How does it work? You have to defend your naval base from hordes of invading ships and balloons. You play through 120 setups in three zones, each zone has 20 on each of three difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, and Hard. You will use various towers to defend your base: quick but weak crossbow...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's not a bad game. Just need a little balance and an almanac for things. DLCs are bad. Bad balance and bugs in the discussions, there is some solution. The best with a big discount.
The idea is good and I like the graphics too. What bothers me is the grinding of points to buy improvements. It gets boring at some point. In addition, the waves are poorly balanced and sometimes there are a lot of enemies at once. The developer probably did this to make the game harder, but it feels like you're just supposed to lose the round. All in all, there are simply too few maps and you have to play them...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Fort Defense scores 35/100 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/343930/fort-defenseReviews 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.