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Ancient Planet Tower Defense cover art

Ancient Planet Tower Defense

Moonlight Mouse · 2015-02-03

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 03, 2015 (Mac), Feb 03, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 08, 2014 (Android), Mar 08, 2014 (iOS)

Ancient Planet is classic tower defense game. The stronghold of an ancient civilization has been invaded by hordes of alien raiders. Use powerful technologies of the Ancient and repel the attack of the enemy's armies!

5
playing now
82%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 18% of 9,678 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–72k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,202 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2021-06-02) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 12 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1622026-08-11 18:00 — 10 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 8 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 15 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 13 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 12 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 10 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 11 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 13 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 14 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 16 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 10 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 11 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$8.49$1.002015-02-032026-08-222015-02-03 — best price $8.492015-06-22 — best price $6.992015-11-30 — best price $6.992016-06-23 — best price $2.492016-10-24 — best price $4.992017-01-30 — best price $4.992017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-11-01 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-04-16 — best price $4.992018-10-22 — best price $4.992019-01-04 — best price $4.992019-05-27 — best price $2.032019-08-16 — best price $4.992019-11-11 — best price $4.992020-01-13 — best price $4.992020-04-30 — best price $1.692020-07-13 — best price $1.692020-11-09 — best price $1.692021-03-01 — best price $1.692021-06-22 — best price $1.002021-06-30 — best price $1.002021-11-24 — best price $1.692022-02-24 — best price $1.242022-08-15 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-01-23 — best price $4.992023-04-17 — best price $4.992023-07-24 — best price $4.992023-12-11 — best price $4.992024-03-04 — best price $4.992024-05-27 — best price $4.992024-09-16 — best price $4.992024-12-16 — best price $4.992025-06-24 — best price $4.992025-09-28 — best price $4.992025-12-16 — best price $4.992026-03-16 — best price $4.992026-05-29 — best price $4.992026-08-22 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
78.9%
earned "First blood"
34.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

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22 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian…

Player tags

IndieCasualComedyStrategyDifficultIsometricAtmosphericSingleplayerTower Defense

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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