Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense

Fantasy tower defense with upgradeable towers, heroes, and tough bosses

Ironhide Game Studio · Released Jul 25, 2016

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 97% of 11K
Recent reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 95% of 104 in 30 days
Playing now: 230; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: Unknown; no patch notes found

What is Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense?

This is a single-player, 2D fantasy tower defense game set across deserts, jungles, and the underworld. You place and upgrade specialized towers, command troops and heroes, and use powers such as reinforcements and meteor strikes to defend each level from enemies and bosses.

For you if...

+you enjoy strategic tower placement and specialized upgrade paths
+you want escalating challenges across varied fantasy stages
+you prefer single-player levels with multiple difficulty modes

Not for you if...

−you want a relaxed, mostly mindless defense game
−you dislike punishing bosses and uneven difficulty spikes

What players say

97% of 10,834 reviews are positive · 95% of 104 in the last 30 days

Players praise the tower and enemy variety, varied stages, and strategy that starts simply but becomes demanding. The most common complaints are uneven difficulty and a final boss many consider unfair; some also find certain achievements tedious.

Screenshots and trailer

Kingdom Rush Frontiers - 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.
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: 87
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, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil.