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Deadtime Defenders

Arcane Embers · 2025-05-08

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 23, 2025 (Mac), Feb 18, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Complete bounties, acquire legendary loot, upgrade your gear, and level up as you fight back against invading monsters in this side-scrolling looter shooter RPG.

80%
positive of 56 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 27,975 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 56 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2020-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320202026Week of 2020-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DPvERPGActionShooterCartoonyColorfulAction RPGBeat 'em upCollectathon

Census log

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

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