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The Defenders: The Second Wave cover art

The Defenders: The Second Wave

FallenMaster · 2015-03-30

Steam

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 30, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Fight the ghosts through 50 waves of growing danger. Play as a powerful wizard, a mighty warrior, or a strategic builder to stop the ghost invasion. Evolve your character in the direction you want. Survive until dawn, or die trying.

The Defenders: The Second Wave is an Action, Strategy game released in 2015, priced at $2.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 96 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 96 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 96 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.50 at Steam (2018-12-20) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220152026Week of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

12602026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 126 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 124 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
90Apr 2015Oct 2020Apr 2015 — avg 4 · peak 73Jun 2015 — avg 2 · peak 18Aug 2015 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Dec 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2016 — avg 2 · peak 20Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Jun 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2016 — avg 1 · peak 9Oct 2016 — avg 2 · peak 33Dec 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Feb 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2017 — avg 9 · peak 391Jun 2017 — avg 1 · peak 63Aug 2017 — avg 2 · peak 192Oct 2017 — avg 1 · peak 17Dec 2017 — avg 0 · peak 5Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 11Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Feb 2020 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.502015-03-312025-03-202015-03-31 — best price $4.992015-05-04 — best price $4.992015-08-18 — best price $1.012015-09-08 — best price $2.992015-12-04 — best price $2.992016-02-18 — best price $2.992016-07-04 — best price $2.992016-11-01 — best price $2.992016-11-29 — best price $2.992017-01-02 — best price $2.992017-07-05 — best price $2.992018-07-05 — best price $2.992018-11-01 — best price $2.992018-11-27 — best price $2.992019-01-03 — best price $2.992019-11-01 — best price $2.992021-11-01 — best price $2.992021-12-01 — best price $2.992022-01-05 — best price $2.992022-03-07 — best price $2.992022-07-07 — best price $2.992025-02-17 — best price $2.992025-03-20 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
22%
earned "Nice fella"
5.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Player tags

ActionStrategy

Census log

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

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