Bloons TD Battles

Bloons TD Battles

Worth it · Action · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsA
91% of 29,326
Genre rank
Top 2% Action

Holding it back: Monetization

Time and effort

Main story
9.4h
To 100%
57.9h 6.2x the story
Achievements
16

Players and genre

Online
193 now
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

73% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bloons Monkey City (free, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Bombergrounds: Reborn (free, scores 67).

It is still busy. 193 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 5, 16:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks. Free to start. It takes its money later, through currency and unlock.

More about Bloons TD Battles

The main story runs 9.4 hours. Doing everything runs 58, 6.2 times as long.

Buy now or wait

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

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
Holding it back
MonetizationCurrency, Unlock
In-game spending, a moderate drag
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesCurrency, UnlockPCGamingWiki

About the game

Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 6, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 2.0, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Bloons TD Battles scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/444640/bloons-td-battles
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperNinja Kiwi
PublisherNinja Kiwi
GenreAction
Released2016
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements16