The Game Census
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Cartridge Defense

Out Gaming · 2022-09-03

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 03, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cartridge Defense is a tower defense game with over 300 distinct collectible cards that you will use to create your own decks to defend against robots in the cyberpunk inspired future. Play cards (cartridges) to spawn towers, upgrades, special abilities and more in a campaign or rogue-like mode.

92%
positive of 100 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 45% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 19,567 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 100 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2024-06-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520202025Week of 2020-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$2.992020-09-032026-08-102020-09-03 — best price $10.192020-10-21 — best price $9.592020-10-29 — best price $9.592020-11-25 — best price $9.592020-12-22 — best price $9.592021-02-11 — best price $9.592021-06-24 — best price $8.992021-10-21 — best price $8.992021-10-28 — best price $8.992021-11-24 — best price $8.992021-12-23 — best price $8.992022-03-30 — best price $8.992022-05-02 — best price $8.992022-06-23 — best price $8.992022-09-03 — best price $8.992022-10-24 — best price $8.992022-11-22 — best price $8.992022-12-05 — best price $7.192022-12-23 — best price $5.992023-02-20 — best price $5.992023-03-16 — best price $5.992023-06-29 — best price $5.992023-08-28 — best price $5.992023-11-21 — best price $5.992023-12-21 — best price $3.592024-03-14 — best price $3.592024-03-25 — best price $3.592024-06-17 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $2.992024-07-29 — best price $2.992024-09-09 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.992025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-03-09 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-08-03 — best price $2.992026-08-10 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
40.2%
earned "Escape the Idle Tower"
6.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsStatsFamily Sharing

Player tags

PvERetroSci-fiStrategyTop-DownCard GameCyberpunkFuturisticRogue-liteCard Battler

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.