Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.49.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM., 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.
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
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was September 2022. It has been discounted 61 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 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 Vengeance - Tower Defense ($9.99, scores 67).
This site sampled 539 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 234 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 8 years ago, and 803 were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:47 UTC.
Players
803 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense scores 76/100 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/816340/kingdom-rush-origins-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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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