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Prime World: Defenders 2 cover art

Prime World: Defenders 2

Nival · 2018-11-29

Steam

Free To PlayMassively MultiplayerStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 29, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Defenders 2, - an exciting hybrid of Tower Defense and CCG, - is now available on Steam! Challenge endless hordes of monsters: build an impassable defense on their path and protect your mines. Collect all the unique towers and prove that even a tornado is not an obstacle for you.

Prime World: Defenders 2 is a free-to-play Free To Play, Massively Multiplayer, Strategy game released in 2018, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and Mostly Positive (79% of 2189 reviews).

21
playing now
79%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

21 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 21 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 34 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (190 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 9,510 Free To Play games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16516520182026Week of 2018-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2832026-09-14 22:00 — 8 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 15 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 25 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 10 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 19 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 22 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 16 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 10 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 15 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 13 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 7 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 11 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 23 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 11 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 28 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 20 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 24 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 10 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 14 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 21 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 16 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 21 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
15319Dec 2018Aug 2026Dec 2018 — avg 110 · peak 209Mar 2019 — avg 137 · peak 216Jun 2019 — avg 104 · peak 177Sep 2019 — avg 85 · peak 136Dec 2019 — avg 92 · peak 169Mar 2020 — avg 85 · peak 147Jun 2020 — avg 97 · peak 164Sep 2020 — avg 83 · peak 160Dec 2020 — avg 73 · peak 125Mar 2021 — avg 62 · peak 104Jun 2021 — avg 54 · peak 101Sep 2021 — avg 46 · peak 85Dec 2021 — avg 46 · peak 77Mar 2022 — avg 40 · peak 73Jun 2022 — avg 34 · peak 63Sep 2022 — avg 32 · peak 62Dec 2022 — avg 29 · peak 65Mar 2023 — avg 32 · peak 67Jun 2023 — avg 31 · peak 51Sep 2023 — avg 36 · peak 63Dec 2023 — avg 37 · peak 63Mar 2024 — avg 32 · peak 61Jun 2024 — avg 30 · peak 61Sep 2024 — avg 32 · peak 62Dec 2024 — avg 34 · peak 65Mar 2025 — avg 32 · peak 68Jun 2025 — avg 27 · peak 48Sep 2025 — avg 21 · peak 44Dec 2025 — avg 21 · peak 43Mar 2026 — avg 28 · peak 54Jun 2026 — avg 20 · peak 40Aug 2026 — avg 19 · peak 36
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

44
achievements tracked
35%
earned "Level 10"
12.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerMMOCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam Trading CardsIn-App PurchasesFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4724%44

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

RTSFantasyStrategySurvivalTacticalCard GameCompetitiveFree to PlaySingleplayerTower Defense

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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