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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!

2
playing now
43%
positive of 351 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 42% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
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 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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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