Best Value Tower Defense Games
The Tower Defense games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr64h88.32%94.92%
- 2Wall World$0.08/1hr14h88.28%90.56%
- 3最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr41h83.71%52.93%
- 4Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.10/1hr5h85.89%87.11%
- 57 Days to Die$0.12/1hr372h86.98%87.02%
- 6Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr95h90.44%93.09%
- 7Bloons TD 6$0.16/1hr87h96.89%97.18%
- 8Mindustry$0.18/1hr56h92.99%95.72%
- 9Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.18/1hr136h85.90%86.27%
- 10Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.20/1hr25h90.10%96.30%
- 11Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr25h96.95%97.70%
- 12Warpips$0.21/1hr12h86.00%87.13%
- 13X-Morph: Defense$0.24/1hr8h87.16%91.31%
- 14Tower Dominion$0.24/1hr44h85.50%85.66%
- 15DG2: Defense Grid 2$0.25/1hr39h85.72%86.62%
- 16They Are Billions$0.30/1hr98h85.16%85.13%
- 17METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.35/1hr28h83.07%69.39%
- 18Cluckmech Oasis$0.37/1hr27h86.18%88.29%
- 19Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.41/1hr24h93.60%97.48%
- 20Castle Story$0.41/1hr24h74.98%65.18%
- 21Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.42/1hr24h91.27%96.68%
- 22Border Pioneer$0.46/1hr16h85.60%86.57%
- 23Progressbar95$0.46/1hr11h88.29%96.13%
- 24Bloons TD 5$0.48/1hr21h90.46%94.68%
- 25Craft The World$0.49/1hr38h87.30%88.41%
- 26Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.50/1hr20h92.90%97.25%
- 27The Last Spell$0.50/1hr50h88.61%91.40%
- 28Stronghold HD (2012)$0.51/1hr12h90.58%95.53%
- 29Creeper World 4$0.58/1hr43h88.46%94.92%
- 30Heretic's Fork$0.59/1hr17h85.27%84.91%
- 31Emberward$0.59/1hr34h88.62%96.96%
- 32Age of Darkness: Final Stand$0.60/1hr47h79.72%74.37%
- 33The Riftbreaker$0.63/1hr43h88.93%90.35%
- 34The Front$0.66/1hr30h75.77%66.68%
- 35Dread Dawn$0.70/1hr29h83.00%72.42%
- 36Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense$0.70/1hr28h89.72%93.68%
- 37Orcs Must Die!$0.75/1hr13h90.21%95.83%
- 38Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.78/1hr19h85.97%86.50%
- 39Dome Keeper$0.86/1hr21h90.01%92.35%
- 40Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.89/1hr34h85.51%85.59%
- 41Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD$0.89/1hr22h86.87%88.10%
- 42Kingdom Two Crowns$0.90/1hr22h89.21%90.17%
- 43Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense$0.90/1hr17h89.96%95.60%
- 44Thronefall$0.95/1hr14h92.92%96.13%
- 45Night of the Dead$0.98/1hr31h80.80%76.92%
- 46Starship Troopers: Terran Command$0.99/1hr30h86.47%87.35%
- 47Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.24/1hr4h85.31%85.09%
- 48Nordhold$1.26/1hr16h85.73%86.66%
- 49Orcs Must Die! 3$1.29/1hr23h85.68%85.86%
- 50Orcs Must Die! 2$1.31/1hr11h89.95%92.26%
- 51Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap$1.34/1hr22h80.69%70.43%
- 52Bad North: Jotunn Edition$1.47/1hr10h90.07%93.26%
- 53Kingdom Eighties$1.51/1hr8h82.88%75.28%
- 54Artisan TD$1.62/1hr11h85.68%86.76%
- 55Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$1.92/1hr2h84.50%82.03%
- 56Ratropolis$1.96/1hr9h86.28%87.84%
- 57Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess$2.01/1hr20h86.84%92.45%
- 58Ship of Fools$2.08/1hr11h84.18%82.04%
- 59Rock of Ages$2.09/1hr5h87.30%92.10%
- 60Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville$2.19/1hr14h75.88%70.85%
- 61Kingdom: New Lands$2.40/1hr6h85.42%85.34%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.