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Aegis Defenders cover art

Aegis Defenders

GUTS Department · Balor Games · 2018-02-08

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Feb 08, 2018 (Mac), Feb 08, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 08, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 08, 2018 (PlayStation 4)

Take on wild beasts, ruthless soldiers, and ancient gods in this 2D Action-Platformer inspired by Tower-Defense combat.

3
playing now
78%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
65/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
14h
to beat · rushed 12h · completionist 15h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Aegis Defenders is a 2D platformer and tower defense game developed by Guts Department. The game originated as a project for USC’s Intermediate Games class and had a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014. It was later picked up by publisher Humble Bundle in 2017 with Japanese publishing support from Kakehashi Games. Aegis Defenders was released on February 8, 2018, on macOS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 46k–110k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,831 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.56 at AllYouPlay (2020-11-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 40 of 69 observed days · $1.43 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

702026-08-06 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$20.59$3.702018-02-082026-08-302018-02-08 — best price $19.992018-07-18 — best price $13.392018-12-18 — best price $11.992019-06-17 — best price $19.992019-11-26 — best price $7.992020-03-02 — best price $5.002020-07-11 — best price $19.992020-08-12 — best price $19.992020-09-18 — best price $19.992020-10-20 — best price $19.992020-12-22 — best price $4.992021-05-02 — best price $17.212021-05-31 — best price $17.992021-08-27 — best price $17.192021-11-29 — best price $19.992022-01-27 — best price $4.992022-03-12 — best price $18.572022-05-19 — best price $3.992022-07-16 — best price $17.212022-09-01 — best price $17.212022-10-28 — best price $4.152022-12-05 — best price $17.992023-01-24 — best price $17.212023-04-19 — best price $4.592023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-09-12 — best price $19.992023-11-27 — best price $4.192024-02-05 — best price $4.192024-04-08 — best price $16.992024-06-07 — best price $16.992024-08-10 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-02-12 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-11-20 — best price $4.992026-03-05 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $4.972026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1812026-05-28 — 5 pageviews2026-05-31 — 9 pageviews2026-06-03 — 7 pageviews2026-06-06 — 18 pageviews2026-06-09 — 15 pageviews2026-06-12 — 13 pageviews2026-06-15 — 14 pageviews2026-06-18 — 11 pageviews2026-06-21 — 8 pageviews2026-06-24 — 9 pageviews2026-06-27 — 10 pageviews2026-06-30 — 7 pageviews2026-07-03 — 12 pageviews2026-07-06 — 10 pageviews2026-07-09 — 7 pageviews2026-07-12 — 2 pageviews2026-07-15 — 10 pageviews2026-07-18 — 11 pageviews2026-07-21 — 1 pageviews2026-07-24 — 17 pageviews2026-07-27 — 4 pageviews2026-07-30 — 15 pageviews2026-08-02 — 11 pageviews2026-08-05 — 8 pageviews2026-08-08 — 12 pageviews2026-08-11 — 9 pageviews2026-08-14 — 6 pageviews2026-08-17 — 8 pageviews2026-08-20 — 6 pageviews2026-08-23 — 4 pageviews2026-08-25 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
79.6%
earned "Hungry Hunter"
10.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions availableSteam CloudRemote Play on TV1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10,5423%31
PS4 (PlayStation)2,7698%32
Switch (Nintendo)180%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGCo-opIndieActionStrategyAdventurePlatformerLocal Co-OpMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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