Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense

Cartoon tower defense built around upgrades, spells, and heroes

Ironhide Game Studio · Released Jan 6, 2014

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 97% of 17K
Recent reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 96% of 153 in 30 days
Playing now: 266; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: Unknown; no patch notes found

What is Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense?

A single-player 2D fantasy tower defense game about protecting a kingdom from Vez’nan’s forces. Across campaign stages and bonus missions, you build and upgrade towers, deploy heroes and troops, cast spells, and stop waves of enemies and bosses.

For you if...

+you like tactical tower placement and upgrade choices
+you enjoy cartoon fantasy battles and boss fights
+you want a stage-based single-player strategy game

Not for you if...

−you dislike trial-and-error difficulty in later stages
−you want many equally viable tower strategies
−you prefer multiplayer strategy games

What players say

97% of 17,228 reviews are positive · 96% of 153 in the last 30 days

Players praise the tactical tower defense, cartoon art, and replayability. The most common complaint is that bonus stages and harder challenges become punishing and restrictive, often requiring trial and error to find a narrow solution.

Screenshots and trailer

Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3
Processor: Dual Core CPU
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM.
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 1500 MB available space

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements: 74
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Playable

Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
The native resolution is not the default one
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Full audio: English. Text only: French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese.