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Rise of the Ancients cover art

Rise of the Ancients

Talentplace · KishMish Games · 2016-05-31

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 31, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

They appeared seemingly from nowhere and are ready for battle... You have to take up the defense of the land and prevent the Ancients from seizing the kingdom!

Rise of the Ancients is a 2016 Indie, Strategy game priced at $4.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (43% of 351 reviews).

0
playing now
43%
positive of 351 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

They appeared seemingly from nowhere and are ready for battle... You have to take up the defense of the land and prevent the Ancients from seizing the kingdom! Devise defensive strategies to ward off the attacking enemies!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 64% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.8k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 351 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.29 at Steam (2022-10-28) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820162026Week of 2016-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1080Jun 2016Aug 2023Jun 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2016 — avg 0 · peak 0Dec 2016 — avg 25 · peak 129Feb 2017 — avg 10 · peak 350Apr 2017 — avg 21 · peak 585Jun 2017 — avg 21 · peak 248Aug 2017 — avg 14 · peak 152Oct 2017 — avg 108 · peak 843Dec 2017 — avg 20 · peak 436Feb 2018 — avg 29 · peak 1,485Apr 2018 — avg 4 · peak 83Jun 2018 — avg 14 · peak 229Aug 2018 — avg 5 · peak 141Oct 2018 — avg 3 · peak 36Dec 2018 — avg 3 · peak 162Feb 2019 — avg 3 · peak 238Apr 2019 — avg 4 · peak 200Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 15Aug 2019 — avg 2 · peak 187Dec 2019 — avg 1 · peak 119Feb 2020 — avg 0 · peak 8Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Sep 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2021 — avg 3 · peak 14Jul 2021 — avg 5 · peak 135Oct 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Dec 2021 — avg 7 · peak 72Feb 2022 — avg 7 · peak 95Apr 2022 — avg 5 · peak 267Jun 2022 — avg 2 · peak 56Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 22Oct 2022 — avg 16 · peak 325Dec 2022 — avg 16 · peak 467Feb 2023 — avg 15 · peak 170Apr 2023 — avg 36 · peak 1,222Jun 2023 — avg 43 · peak 1,344Aug 2023 — avg 50 · peak 205
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.292016-05-312026-07-092016-05-31 — best price $1.192016-10-04 — best price $0.492016-11-23 — best price $0.792017-01-18 — best price $2.992017-04-10 — best price $2.992017-11-01 — best price $2.992018-01-17 — best price $0.492018-06-22 — best price $0.492018-11-21 — best price $0.492019-02-04 — best price $0.492019-06-26 — best price $0.492019-09-16 — best price $0.992019-12-03 — best price $0.992020-03-02 — best price $0.492020-06-08 — best price $0.492020-10-09 — best price $0.492020-12-22 — best price $0.492021-03-13 — best price $0.492021-07-09 — best price $0.492021-11-24 — best price $0.492022-03-02 — best price $0.592022-07-21 — best price $0.562022-11-23 — best price $0.292023-02-25 — best price $0.292023-05-17 — best price $0.292023-09-18 — best price $0.492024-01-17 — best price $0.692024-05-06 — best price $0.492024-09-29 — best price $0.492024-12-19 — best price $0.492025-05-03 — best price $0.492025-09-08 — best price $0.492025-12-05 — best price $0.492026-03-19 — best price $0.492026-06-25 — best price $0.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieStrategyTower Defense

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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