Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense

Fantasy tower defense with elven armies, heroes, and spells

Ironhide Game Studio · Released Oct 17, 2018

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 96% of 8,066
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 92% of 56 in 30 days
Playing now: 150; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: Unknown; no patch notes found

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

96% of 8,066 reviews are positive · 92% of 56 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.

Screenshots and trailer

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense system requirements

As published by the developer.

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

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: 83
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing

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, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain.