MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
Skip · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$21.99Skip
On its price record
$11.87Fair
- Length
- 12.9h 41.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 888 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.87 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compliant graphics card with 2GB dedicated memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 43 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Taur ($16.74, scores 45) beats it on value, while it beats Cepheus Protocol ($19.99, scores 27).
More about MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 390 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 139 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12.9 hours; clearing it takes 41, which is 3.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
91% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 15:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Fantastic game that I keep coming back to over and over. Tremendous replay value, great graphics, excellent audio and killer gameplay. I'd buy any game from these guys, seriously.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
An enjoyable, if a little simple, tower defense that focuses on "tower management" rather than huge sprawling mazes. The core concept here, that separates it from normal TD games is that you have a limited number of soldiers and every building requires a soldier to man it. So you have to juggle your soldiers between resource gathering, technology advancement and manning towers... At least you would if the...
30/100 no fun, painful slog (1-solution only) Dev had no idea how to make it challenging, so chose to spam enemies >>> Not worth wasting time
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense scores 44/100 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/682530/marz-tactical-base-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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.