Dungeon Defenders
BANGER · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 14.5h
- Value
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Graphics Card with Shader Model 3 support, 256 MB video memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!
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The value story
December 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Dungeon Defenders II (free, scores 49) and Cultivation Tales ($19.99, scores 0).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 12 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 588 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 560 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 14.5 hours. Doing everything runs 459, 32 times as long.
The drop-off
54% 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
284 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Playing this game is like a walk down the beach mid July with nice breeze and not too hot not too cold just in the middle 73 degrees, perfect temperature no worries in the world not a clue in the world about any worries just pure relaxation and satisfaction. you don't like this game I don't know what you would like
I used to play Dungeon Defenders on PS3 and got back into it with a friend about three years ago. We've gotten to the point where we're beating boss maps on Nightmare, and the game is still genuinely fun even all these years later. I really don't understand the hate over the developers adding new content to a game that came out in 2011. If anything, I think it's cool that someone came back and started adding new...
People who complain game from 2011 with paid dlc in 2026 probably never even look at this game update history
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Dungeon Defenders scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/65800/dungeon-defendersThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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