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Defence to death

Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich · Laush Studio · 2017-05-11

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 11, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Defence to death" - game in genre "Tower Defence". Defend Your castle from monster! Show Your's strength and wisdom.

Defence to death is a 2017 Indie and Strategy game priced at $1.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 279 reviews).

225
playing now
56%
positive of 279 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

225 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 225 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 49,704 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.0k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 279 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-11-21) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

22502026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 225 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.492017-05-122026-07-202017-05-12 — best price $1.572017-12-27 — best price $0.592018-03-19 — best price $0.792018-07-23 — best price $0.572018-11-21 — best price $0.492019-02-04 — best price $0.592019-06-26 — best price $0.592019-10-28 — best price $0.592019-12-19 — best price $0.592020-02-24 — best price $0.592020-06-15 — best price $0.592020-09-21 — best price $0.592020-11-25 — best price $0.592021-02-11 — best price $0.592021-06-07 — best price $0.592021-09-13 — best price $0.592021-11-24 — best price $0.592022-01-27 — best price $0.592022-05-16 — best price $0.592022-09-26 — best price $0.592022-12-12 — best price $0.592023-03-16 — best price $0.592023-07-17 — best price $0.592023-11-21 — best price $3.112024-02-19 — best price $0.892024-05-13 — best price $0.892024-09-09 — best price $0.892024-12-19 — best price $0.892025-03-13 — best price $0.892025-07-10 — best price $1.992025-10-06 — best price $1.992026-01-12 — best price $1.992026-05-18 — best price $1.992026-07-20 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
4.2%
earned "Buy turrets module 2 lvl"
3.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)57188%8

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

Player tags

RTSIndieLogicClickerZombiesBuildingStrategySurvivalAtmosphericSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.