Gnomes

DYSTOPIAN · 2025-04-04

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 04, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde

playing now

95%

positive of 1.8k reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

steam rating

20,000–50,000

owners (SteamSpy est.)

platinum

deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)

$9.99

steam price (US)

13 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Use your gnomes to defend your crops from the goblins on a map that expands every day. On your turn, position your gnomes, prepare your defenses and grow your economy. Test your strategy against endless, procedurally generated encounters and survive long enough to face the goblin king. Every run in Gnomes is created one of a kind and using a carefully crafted combination of bespoke content and procedurally generated elements. Purchase randomly dealt upgrades and create strategic combinations to unlock your build’s potential. As you progress you gain access to more maps and guilds, each with u(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active

· 13 players in-game at the last census sample.
· 49 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
· Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
· Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (287 reviews).
· Top 14% of 9,562 Casual games in the census by review count.

Estimated sales: 36k–81k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,808 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2026-06-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 12 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative

Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+

achievements tracked

62.1%

earned "King of the Forest"

6.8%

median achievement earned by

· 62.1% of players earned King of the Forest
· 6.8% of players earned Squatters Victory
· 0.6% of players earned Scientists Victory

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo SoundSteam Cloud

18 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Latin America…

Console footprint

Platform	Players tracked	Completion	Trophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)	1,281	1%	69

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

Player tags

Dwarf Economy Colorful Strategy Survival Colony Sim Rogue-like Turn-Based Atmospheric Farming Sim

Census log

2025-04-04First review activity on record (week of 2025-04-04).
2025-04-04Biggest review week on record: 287 reviews (week of 2025-04-04).
2026-08-29Highest concurrent player count the census has recorded: 28 (2026-08-29).

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

Recent updates

2026-06-10Patch 2.2: Controller Support BETA
2026-04-10Patch 2.1: Technical and Balance Improvements
2026-03-09Gnomes 2.0: New Maps, Guilds and Relics!

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Similarity via IGDB.

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