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Element TD 2 - Tower Defense cover art

Element TD 2 - Tower Defense

Element Studios · 2021-04-02

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 02, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Element TD 2 sees you combine powerful elements to create unique towers. Prove your defenses against challenging foes, and compete or cooperate with others to determine who has mastered the elements.

Element TD 2 - Tower Defense is an Indie and Strategy game released in 2021, priced at $14.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 3235 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners.

59
playing now
90%
positive of 3.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

59 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 20:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 59 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 140 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~18/week).
  • · Review velocity up 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (424 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 50,697 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 65k–146k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,235 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2026-05-02) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
37637620202026Week of 2020-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 376 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

91262026-09-16 06:00 — 26 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 35 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 63 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 44 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 43 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 56 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 35 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 33 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 86 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 32 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 29 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 39 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 47 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 56 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 91 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 30 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 46 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 58 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 68 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 31 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 52 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 56 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 31 players2026-10-15 20:00 — 59 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
66911Mar 2020Aug 2026Mar 2020 — avg 11 · peak 47May 2020 — avg 35 · peak 144Jul 2020 — avg 19 · peak 52Sep 2020 — avg 30 · peak 78Nov 2020 — avg 42 · peak 115Jan 2021 — avg 153 · peak 574Mar 2021 — avg 155 · peak 391May 2021 — avg 338 · peak 731Jul 2021 — avg 166 · peak 314Sep 2021 — avg 127 · peak 274Nov 2021 — avg 95 · peak 253Jan 2022 — avg 148 · peak 365Mar 2022 — avg 92 · peak 206May 2022 — avg 92 · peak 208Jul 2022 — avg 102 · peak 217Sep 2022 — avg 67 · peak 152Nov 2022 — avg 78 · peak 245Jan 2023 — avg 164 · peak 394Mar 2023 — avg 107 · peak 245May 2023 — avg 83 · peak 182Jul 2023 — avg 88 · peak 217Sep 2023 — avg 130 · peak 423Nov 2023 — avg 94 · peak 248Jan 2024 — avg 96 · peak 222Mar 2024 — avg 92 · peak 237May 2024 — avg 139 · peak 572Jul 2024 — avg 116 · peak 267Sep 2024 — avg 96 · peak 233Nov 2024 — avg 67 · peak 151Jan 2025 — avg 74 · peak 182Mar 2025 — avg 69 · peak 151May 2025 — avg 52 · peak 109Jul 2025 — avg 57 · peak 120Sep 2025 — avg 104 · peak 532Nov 2025 — avg 52 · peak 109Jan 2026 — avg 66 · peak 173Mar 2026 — avg 86 · peak 314May 2026 — avg 129 · peak 782Jul 2026 — avg 61 · peak 129Aug 2026 — avg 50 · peak 102
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$5.992020-02-282026-07-092020-02-28 — best price $9.992020-05-04 — best price $9.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $13.492021-11-24 — best price $12.742021-12-22 — best price $11.992022-01-29 — best price $11.992022-06-23 — best price $10.492022-11-22 — best price $8.992022-12-22 — best price $7.492023-03-16 — best price $7.492023-06-29 — best price $7.492023-08-28 — best price $7.492023-11-21 — best price $7.492023-12-21 — best price $7.492024-02-06 — best price $7.492024-03-14 — best price $7.492024-05-12 — best price $7.492024-06-27 — best price $7.492024-07-29 — best price $7.492024-09-27 — best price $7.492024-11-27 — best price $7.492024-12-19 — best price $7.492025-01-27 — best price $7.492025-03-13 — best price $7.492025-06-26 — best price $7.492025-09-05 — best price $7.492025-09-29 — best price $6.742025-12-18 — best price $6.742026-03-09 — best price $6.742026-03-19 — best price $6.742026-05-02 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $5.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
57.1%
earned "Cow Farmer"
9.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Cloud1 DLC

15 supported languages: English, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Romanian, French, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-12-02 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DPvEPvPRTSFantasyBuildingStrategyTacticalTeam-BasedCompetitive

Census log

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

Recent updates

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