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Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense

Fantasy tower defense with elven armies, heroes, and spells

Ironhide Game Studio · Released Oct 17, 2018

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Reviews trending down: 85% positive in the last 30 days vs 95% overall

Reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
95% of 8,067
Recent reviews
Very Positive
85% of 175 in 30 days
Players
320
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update on Steam
2 months ago
Aug 12, 2026
Minimum PC
OpenGL 3.0 compliant with…
1 GB RAM · 0.5 GB disk
Full requirements

What is Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense?

A single-player 2D tower defense prequel set across elven forests, faery realms, and floating ruins. Build and upgrade towers, direct heroes, and cast spells to stop enemy waves across levels with Classic, Iron, and Heroic variants.

For you if...

  • +you enjoy combining specialized towers and active hero abilities
  • +you want tactical levels with multiple difficulty settings
  • +you prefer colorful medieval fantasy and cartoony visuals

Not for you if...

  • −you want multiplayer strategy or an endless mode
  • −you dislike difficulty spikes and repeating defensive levels

What players say

95% of 8,067 reviews are positive · 85% of 175 in the last 30 days

Players praise the familiar tower defense structure, strategic tower combinations, interactive maps, and varied heroes. Complaints focus on uneven tower balance, an overly dominant lightning spell in later levels, and less content than the previous game. Some players also report crashes that prevent launching or progressing.

Players over time

▼ -28% vs a month ago

Players online on Steam, one sample a day.

Highest since Sep 2026: 494 players on Oct 6, 2026.

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Nov 7, 2026320
Nov 6, 2026267
Nov 5, 2026254
Nov 4, 2026298
Nov 3, 2026333
Nov 2, 2026308
Nov 1, 2026408
Oct 31, 2026410
Oct 30, 2026362
Oct 29, 2026326
Oct 28, 2026391
Oct 27, 2026310
Oct 26, 2026300
Oct 25, 2026472
Oct 24, 2026320
Oct 23, 2026239
Oct 22, 2026250
Oct 21, 2026268
Oct 20, 2026281
Oct 19, 2026273
Oct 18, 2026417
Oct 17, 2026414
Oct 16, 2026300
Oct 15, 2026313
Oct 14, 2026321
Oct 13, 2026348
Oct 12, 2026332
Oct 11, 2026477
Oct 10, 2026385
Oct 9, 2026410
Oct 8, 2026332
Oct 7, 2026438
Oct 6, 2026494
Oct 5, 2026489
Oct 4, 2026474
Oct 3, 2026446
Oct 2, 2026436
Oct 1, 2026407
Sep 30, 2026399
Sep 29, 2026350
Sep 28, 2026319
Sep 27, 2026373
Sep 26, 2026283
Sep 25, 2026152
Sep 24, 202691
Sep 23, 2026150
Sep 23, 202667
Sep 22, 202667
Sep 21, 2026107

How many players finish Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense?

59% of Steam players have unlocked «Great Defender», the achievement for finishing the main story.

Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.

Screenshots and trailer

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Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense system requirements

Minimum: OpenGL 3.0 compliant with…, 1 GB RAM, 0.5 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

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Minimum

OS
Windows 7
Processor
Dual Core CPU
Graphics
OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM.
Memory
1 GB RAM
Storage
500 MB available space

Recommended

Graphics
OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 1.0GB of video RAM.
Memory
2 GB RAM

Does Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

  • 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

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements
83
Steam features
Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain.

Does Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Nov 6, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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