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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.

Prime World: Defenders is a $9.99 Casual, Indie, RPG, and Strategy game released in 2013, estimated to have 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive sentiment (75% of 1055 reviews).

2
playing now
75%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 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

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 8% of 29,066 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

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)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020162026Week of 2016-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-14 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 6 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2540Mar 2013Aug 2026Mar 2013 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2013 — avg 117 · peak 316Jan 2014 — avg 59 · peak 153Jun 2014 — avg 32 · peak 111Nov 2014 — avg 21 · peak 72Apr 2015 — avg 41 · peak 97Sep 2015 — avg 17 · peak 35Feb 2016 — avg 30 · peak 70Jul 2016 — avg 20 · peak 43Dec 2016 — avg 13 · peak 37May 2017 — avg 11 · peak 32Oct 2017 — avg 9 · peak 24Mar 2018 — avg 13 · peak 32Aug 2018 — avg 8 · peak 21Jan 2019 — avg 8 · peak 26Jun 2019 — avg 6 · peak 18Nov 2019 — avg 6 · peak 17Apr 2020 — avg 8 · peak 18Sep 2020 — avg 5 · peak 17Feb 2021 — avg 5 · peak 15Jul 2021 — avg 4 · peak 13Dec 2021 — avg 6 · peak 17May 2022 — avg 4 · peak 13Oct 2022 — avg 4 · peak 12Mar 2023 — avg 4 · peak 10Aug 2023 — avg 3 · peak 8Jan 2024 — avg 3 · peak 9Jun 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Nov 2024 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2025 — avg 4 · peak 9Sep 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 11
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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 pageviews2026-06-05 — 4 pageviews2026-06-09 — 5 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 1 pageviews2026-06-21 — 1 pageviews2026-06-25 — 6 pageviews2026-06-29 — 5 pageviews2026-07-03 — 9 pageviews2026-07-07 — 3 pageviews2026-07-11 — 9 pageviews2026-07-15 — 2 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-23 — 1 pageviews2026-07-28 — 0 pageviews2026-08-01 — 4 pageviews2026-08-05 — 5 pageviews2026-08-09 — 1 pageviews2026-08-13 — 1 pageviews2026-08-17 — 3 pageviews2026-08-21 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-29 — 3 pageviews2026-09-02 — 5 pageviews2026-09-06 — 4 pageviews2026-09-10 — 0 pageviews2026-09-14 — 4 pageviews2026-09-18 — 2 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4 pageviews2026-09-26 — 0 pageviews2026-09-30 — 2 pageviews2026-10-04 — 3 pageviews2026-10-08 — 11 pageviews2026-10-11 — 2 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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Similarity via IGDB.

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