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Prime World: Defenders cover art

Prime World: Defenders

Nival · 2013-06-05

Steam

CasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 23, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), May 03, 2013 (Mac), May 03, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Fight off hordes of monstrous mutants created from a strange cataclysmic event in the new tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders. Join a group of exile treasure hunters who have ventured into the capital of an ancient empire, vast with mystery and danger.

4
playing now
75%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Prime World: Defenders is a cross-platform collectible card Tower Defense game set in the Prime World universe. The game uses a Free-to-play distribution model. In December 2012 Prime World: Defenders was announced and released for beta testing. In June 2013, Prime World: Defenders was released on Steam. In June 2014, Prime World: Defenders was released for Android, iOS, Facebook, NVIDIA Shield, Kongregate, and Android TV. The player acts as the Ranger, the tactical and strategic commander of a small group of Defenders. The group performs raids in the deep Prime Zone, fighting Creeps and hunting artifacts. The player collects Magic and Tower cards to use later in battles with the monsters. The group is located on the Ballooneer, their mobile base.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 20% of 9,708 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 42k–84k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,055 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.50 at GamersGate (2019-08-29) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

702026-08-06 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.502015-01-012026-04-252015-01-01 — best price $1.992016-05-30 — best price $4.992017-09-19 — best price $9.992018-03-19 — best price $4.992018-08-27 — best price $9.992019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-05-24 — best price $9.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-04-07 — best price $3.992020-06-06 — best price $9.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-07-31 — best price $9.992020-08-23 — best price $8.992020-09-18 — best price $9.992020-10-12 — best price $9.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992020-11-23 — best price $9.992020-12-17 — best price $8.992021-01-16 — best price $8.992021-02-08 — best price $9.992021-03-07 — best price $9.992021-03-29 — best price $8.992021-04-20 — best price $8.992021-05-13 — best price $9.992021-06-04 — best price $8.992021-09-09 — best price $9.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-01-28 — best price $7.342022-05-23 — best price $2.242022-10-24 — best price $9.992023-02-10 — best price $2.992023-06-26 — best price $2.242023-09-23 — best price $9.992024-02-02 — best price $2.992024-08-21 — best price $9.992025-01-07 — best price $2.002025-12-06 — best price $9.992026-04-25 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1502026-06-01 — 4 pageviews2026-06-04 — 2 pageviews2026-06-07 — 1 pageviews2026-06-10 — 2 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-16 — 1 pageviews2026-06-19 — 4 pageviews2026-06-22 — 1 pageviews2026-06-25 — 6 pageviews2026-06-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-01 — 2 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 3 pageviews2026-07-10 — 4 pageviews2026-07-13 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 3 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-22 — 4 pageviews2026-07-26 — 2 pageviews2026-07-29 — 1 pageviews2026-08-01 — 4 pageviews2026-08-04 — 0 pageviews2026-08-07 — 4 pageviews2026-08-10 — 1 pageviews2026-08-13 — 1 pageviews2026-08-16 — 4 pageviews2026-08-19 — 3 pageviews2026-08-22 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews2026-08-29 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
51.8%
earned "Blitzkrieg I"
27.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsStatsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Russian, French

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,1093%134
Switch (Nintendo)510%0

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

Player tags

RPGIndieActionCasualClassicFantasyStrategySurvivalTacticalAdventure

Census log

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

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