Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM., 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in September 2018. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense ($0.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense ($7.49, scores 76).
Of the 533 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 377 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 10 years ago, and 2.0K were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 1, 08:45 UTC.
The drop-off
94% start to 11% 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
2,039 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 08:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/458710/kingdom-rush-frontiers-tower-defenseReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.
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