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Grow Defense

SoftCowGames · 2021-01-10

Steam

CasualIndieStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 11, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Upgrade your Castle and Unlock new tiers of Skills and Weapons to Defend vs Monsters and Bosses across VARIOUS ZONES! Find Rare ITEMS dropped from monsters and bosses and upgrade them to their full potential! Defeat RAID Mega-Bosses to find LEGENDARY items!

Grow Defense is a Casual, Indie, Strategy, and Free To Play game released in 2021, priced at free-to-play, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (76% of 607 reviews).

14
playing now
76%
positive of 607 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 14 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 28 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (141 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10710720212026Week of 2021-01-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2182026-09-14 23:00 — 15 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 12 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 15 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 18 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 14 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 13 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 13 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 17 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 19 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 18 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 15 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 13 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 18 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 11 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 14 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 19 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 9 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 15 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 15 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 12 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 15 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 8 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 17 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 14 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
65515Jan 2021Aug 2026Jan 2021 — avg 655 · peak 1,264Mar 2021 — avg 454 · peak 603May 2021 — avg 242 · peak 317Jul 2021 — avg 187 · peak 249Sep 2021 — avg 155 · peak 201Nov 2021 — avg 123 · peak 194Jan 2022 — avg 145 · peak 203Mar 2022 — avg 120 · peak 149May 2022 — avg 107 · peak 139Jul 2022 — avg 112 · peak 145Sep 2022 — avg 87 · peak 120Nov 2022 — avg 72 · peak 115Jan 2023 — avg 87 · peak 126Mar 2023 — avg 66 · peak 102May 2023 — avg 62 · peak 90Jul 2023 — avg 80 · peak 113Sep 2023 — avg 59 · peak 77Nov 2023 — avg 65 · peak 84Jan 2024 — avg 64 · peak 92Mar 2024 — avg 62 · peak 88May 2024 — avg 47 · peak 65Jul 2024 — avg 52 · peak 74Sep 2024 — avg 45 · peak 67Nov 2024 — avg 40 · peak 57Jan 2025 — avg 36 · peak 52Mar 2025 — avg 34 · peak 52May 2025 — avg 33 · peak 49Jul 2025 — avg 29 · peak 46Sep 2025 — avg 74 · peak 128Nov 2025 — avg 38 · peak 55Jan 2026 — avg 28 · peak 40Mar 2026 — avg 25 · peak 41May 2026 — avg 17 · peak 27Jul 2026 — avg 15 · peak 26Aug 2026 — avg 16 · peak 27
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

17
achievements tracked
90.4%
earned "You Think You're Tough?"
24%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsIn-App PurchasesSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,9442%17

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

Player tags

2D3D2.5DIdlerIndieCasualClickerCartoonyColorfulStrategy

Census log

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

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