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Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD cover art

Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD

Ironhide Game Studio · 2024-07-25

Steam

IndieStrategy

Franchise: Kingdom Rush · Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 25, 2024 (Android), Jul 25, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 25, 2024 (iOS)

While a formidable evil emerges, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army to stop it. Beware! Though they may journey side by side the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course.

347
playing now
88%
positive of 12k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
98/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$12.99
steam price (US)

347 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Kingdom Rush is a 2011 tower defense game developed by Ironhide Game Studio and published by Armor Games. In the game's medieval fantasy setting, players take control of a general serving under King Denas of Linirea, who must defend the land from an onslaught of evil monsters. Each level is composed of a number of pre-set roads, which the player can place defensive towers around to fight off the approaching monsters. Slaying enemies gives the player gold, which they can use to buy new towers or upgrade existing ones to improve their capabilities.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 347 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,335 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~167/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 232k–523k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 11,617 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $10.99 at Steam (2026-03-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 12 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.6k2.6k20242026Week of 2024-07-01: 2,649 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 501 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,428 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 216 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 313 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 612 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 111 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 253 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 410 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 113 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

8641482026-08-06 22:00 — 149 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 312 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 481 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 154 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 377 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 533 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 160 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 422 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 560 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 172 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 317 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 491 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 148 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 333 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 498 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 183 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 442 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 864 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 288 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 517 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 771 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 276 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 504 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 773 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 306 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 395 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 597 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 293 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 347 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$10.992024-07-252026-08-132024-07-25 — best price $17.992024-08-16 — best price $17.992024-11-04 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-02-03 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-05-01 — best price $19.992025-06-12 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-07-21 — best price $19.992025-08-15 — best price $19.992025-08-21 — best price $12.992025-09-04 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-10-16 — best price $19.992025-10-27 — best price $13.992025-11-06 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-16 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-05 — best price $19.992026-06-11 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-13 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

231952026-05-31 — 111 pageviews2026-06-03 — 136 pageviews2026-06-06 — 114 pageviews2026-06-09 — 133 pageviews2026-06-12 — 115 pageviews2026-06-15 — 146 pageviews2026-06-18 — 137 pageviews2026-06-21 — 133 pageviews2026-06-24 — 145 pageviews2026-06-27 — 163 pageviews2026-06-30 — 130 pageviews2026-07-03 — 169 pageviews2026-07-06 — 121 pageviews2026-07-09 — 105 pageviews2026-07-12 — 137 pageviews2026-07-15 — 102 pageviews2026-07-18 — 116 pageviews2026-07-21 — 119 pageviews2026-07-24 — 120 pageviews2026-07-27 — 127 pageviews2026-07-30 — 185 pageviews2026-08-02 — 121 pageviews2026-08-05 — 115 pageviews2026-08-08 — 120 pageviews2026-08-11 — 135 pageviews2026-08-14 — 158 pageviews2026-08-17 — 186 pageviews2026-08-20 — 129 pageviews2026-08-23 — 142 pageviews2026-08-26 — 125 pageviews2026-08-28 — 129 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

202026-08-26 19:15 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 17:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
96.1%
earned "Learning the Ropes"
45.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,6037%98

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

Where its players are

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

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieActionComedyCartoonDragonsFantasyBuildingCartoony

Census log

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

Recent updates

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