X-Morph: Defense
Worth it · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 11.6h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 460 or AMD equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in October 2024. It has been discounted 86 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sanctum 2 ($2.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Yet Another Zombie Defense HD ($3.99, scores 56).
Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 536 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 415 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
11.6 hours to finish it, 29 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
70% start to 2% 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
38 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 07:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I'm a very careful person when it comes to buying games. Every purchase I make has a purpose and an intention, especially considering the amount of time I have available to play. After doing some research and buying the game, I found after just one hour of playing that X-Morph: Defense is a solid game, and I know I'll play it until I finish it. I took advantage of the sale and bought the complete game, including all...
WARNING! there are lots of explosions in this game. don't play if you don't like explosions.
Too little variety, to much self-involvement. The towers are extremely worthless and everything depends on you to just hold down left mouse button and fiddle around wasd. Shouldn't really be called a Tower Defense.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
X-Morph: Defense scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/408410/x-morph-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 23, price as of Oct 1.
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