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Cannons-Defenders: Steam Edition cover art

Cannons-Defenders: Steam Edition

REX PEX GAMES · 2017-04-07

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 07, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Hardcore 2D game with a fascinating and unusual mechanics, where you have to defend the base from annoying saboteurs.

1
playing now
67%
positive of 212 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.3k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 212 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820172026Week of 2017-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1402026-08-11 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 10 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 14 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$0.99$0.492017-04-072021-03-152017-04-07 — best price $0.792017-06-22 — best price $0.492017-08-05 — best price $0.692017-08-21 — best price $0.992017-11-01 — best price $0.992017-11-28 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $0.992018-02-19 — best price $0.992018-04-21 — best price $0.992018-07-05 — best price $0.992018-11-01 — best price $0.992018-11-27 — best price $0.992019-01-03 — best price $0.992019-03-11 — best price $0.992019-07-09 — best price $0.992019-08-09 — best price $0.992019-11-01 — best price $0.992019-12-03 — best price $0.992020-01-02 — best price $0.992020-01-27 — best price $0.992020-04-20 — best price $0.992020-07-09 — best price $0.992020-11-02 — best price $0.992020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-01-05 — best price $0.992021-01-25 — best price $0.992021-02-15 — best price $0.992021-03-15 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
1.9%
earned "First blood"
1.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)36860%12

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

Player tags

2DGoreIndieActionCasualDifficultPlatformerSingleplayerSide ScrollerTower Defense

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.