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MechDefender - Tower Defense cover art

MechDefender - Tower Defense

Atomic Fabrik · Conglomerate 5 · 2020-03-03

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndieSportsStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 03, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 03, 2020 (Mac)

MechDefender is an innovative fusion of two gaming genres - seamlessly blending the intense action of a top-down shooter with the strategic depth of tower defense.

MechDefender - Tower Defense is a 2020 Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive sentiment (76% of 370 reviews).

1
playing now
76%
positive of 371 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.4k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 371 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920172026Week of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

50602026-09-15 01:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 202 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 12 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 9 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 506 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 15 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3280Mar 2017Aug 2026Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2017 — avg 328 · peak 9,786Mar 2018 — avg 4 · peak 25Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2018 — avg 1 · peak 8Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 6Apr 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2020 — avg 4 · peak 65Jan 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Apr 2021 — avg 44 · peak 1,193Aug 2021 — avg 14 · peak 169Nov 2021 — avg 5 · peak 88Feb 2022 — avg 10 · peak 176May 2022 — avg 22 · peak 388Aug 2022 — avg 25 · peak 729Nov 2022 — avg 11 · peak 153Feb 2023 — avg 70 · peak 4,685May 2023 — avg 18 · peak 194Aug 2023 — avg 51 · peak 220Nov 2023 — avg 4 · peak 53Feb 2024 — avg 8 · peak 200May 2024 — avg 12 · peak 240Aug 2024 — avg 43 · peak 489Dec 2024 — avg 5 · peak 42Apr 2025 — avg 63 · peak 1,685Sep 2025 — avg 2 · peak 20Mar 2026 — avg 12 · peak 106Jul 2026 — avg 10 · peak 126Aug 2026 — avg 12 · peak 302
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.492017-03-222021-03-022017-03-22 — best price $3.492017-06-22 — best price $2.492017-09-11 — best price $2.492017-10-26 — best price $2.492017-11-22 — best price $1.992017-12-21 — best price $0.742018-02-15 — best price $0.992018-04-16 — best price $2.492018-06-22 — best price $1.242018-10-29 — best price $1.242018-11-22 — best price $1.242018-12-20 — best price $1.242019-02-04 — best price $1.242019-06-26 — best price $2.492019-10-28 — best price $2.492019-11-26 — best price $2.492019-12-19 — best price $1.242020-01-23 — best price $2.492020-03-03 — best price $3.492020-04-30 — best price $2.492020-06-25 — best price $2.492020-08-05 — best price $1.992020-09-03 — best price $1.992020-10-31 — best price $1.992021-01-05 — best price $1.992021-03-02 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
1.3%
earned "First Blood"
0.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availablePartial Controller SupportStatsSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, Russian, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Turkish

Player tags

WarMechsPuzzleWargameMilitaryStrategySurvivalDifficultTower DefenseGrand Strategy

Census log

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

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