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极简塔防 - Minimalist Tower Defense

Happy213 · 2024-01-25

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 26, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies

极简塔防 - Minimalist Tower Defense is a 2024 Casual, Indie, and Strategy game priced at $4.99, estimated to have 50,000 to 100,000 owners, with a Very Positive sentiment based on 95% of 1862 reviews.

23
playing now
95%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

23 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 23 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 285 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~36/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 29,131 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 37k–84k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,862 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2026-08-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14214220242026Week of 2024-01-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

8862026-09-15 02:00 — 24 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 42 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 19 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 24 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 50 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 25 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 21 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 48 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 60 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 15 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 26 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 52 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 58 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 69 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 54 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 78 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 13 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 33 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 57 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 16 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 19 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 23 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
21331Jan 2024Aug 2026Jan 2024 — avg 213 · peak 427Feb 2024 — avg 86 · peak 354Mar 2024 — avg 63 · peak 168Apr 2024 — avg 54 · peak 156May 2024 — avg 39 · peak 123Jun 2024 — avg 67 · peak 251Jul 2024 — avg 73 · peak 204Aug 2024 — avg 72 · peak 207Sep 2024 — avg 50 · peak 134Oct 2024 — avg 42 · peak 105Nov 2024 — avg 41 · peak 158Dec 2024 — avg 56 · peak 179Jan 2025 — avg 47 · peak 131Feb 2025 — avg 49 · peak 136Mar 2025 — avg 52 · peak 150Apr 2025 — avg 38 · peak 102May 2025 — avg 37 · peak 99Jun 2025 — avg 40 · peak 124Jul 2025 — avg 51 · peak 117Aug 2025 — avg 42 · peak 93Sep 2025 — avg 31 · peak 82Oct 2025 — avg 41 · peak 114Nov 2025 — avg 33 · peak 98Dec 2025 — avg 39 · peak 116Jan 2026 — avg 40 · peak 105Feb 2026 — avg 36 · peak 94Mar 2026 — avg 83 · peak 287Apr 2026 — avg 40 · peak 106May 2026 — avg 33 · peak 78Jun 2026 — avg 39 · peak 91Jul 2026 — avg 42 · peak 105Aug 2026 — avg 58 · peak 194
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$3.742024-01-262026-08-152024-01-26 — best price $4.492024-03-14 — best price $4.392024-04-29 — best price $4.242024-06-20 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $4.242024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-07-25 — best price $4.992024-08-05 — best price $4.992024-08-15 — best price $4.992024-09-02 — best price $4.992024-09-24 — best price $4.992024-10-27 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992024-12-20 — best price $4.242025-01-03 — best price $4.992025-02-02 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-16 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-15 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

43
achievements tracked
86.2%
earned "A Hard Work"
11.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing2 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-01-26, latest 2024-06-13 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DIndieCasualCombatWargameStrategySurvivalTop-DownMinimalistSingleplayer

Census log

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

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