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Duke of Defense cover art

Duke of Defense

Christopher Anselmo · Hitcents · 2019-04-04

Steam

CasualStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jun 20, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 04, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 08, 2020 (Xbox One)

Discover a world brimming with humor and interesting characters. You'll find yourself among overly observant villagers and egotistical wizards.

Duke of Defense is a $9.99 Casual and Strategy game released in 2019, estimated to have 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment from 57 reviews.

0
playing now
89%
positive of 57 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 57 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2021-06-24) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320182026Week of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.492018-10-172026-03-162018-10-17 — best price $7.992018-12-20 — best price $6.992019-02-25 — best price $14.992019-04-11 — best price $14.992019-07-10 — best price $14.992019-09-23 — best price $14.992019-10-14 — best price $14.992019-12-20 — best price $2.492020-02-17 — best price $2.492020-04-30 — best price $2.492020-05-10 — best price $4.992020-09-21 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992021-10-18 — best price $4.992021-11-01 — best price $4.992022-07-18 — best price $0.492024-04-22 — best price $0.492024-06-27 — best price $0.492024-07-29 — best price $0.492024-10-23 — best price $9.992025-02-17 — best price $9.992026-03-16 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
85%
earned "Duke In Training"
26.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Cloud1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-04-11 (Steam store data)

Player tags

CasualStrategyTower DefensePixel Graphics

Census log

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

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