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.
- 17 Days to Die$0.07/1hr635h86.71%86.76%
- 2Wall World$0.07/1hr14h88.17%90.73%
- 3Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.53%86.94%
- 4最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr41h83.37%52.93%
- 5Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr26h96.92%97.70%
- 6Cluckmech Oasis$0.19/1hr52h85.85%88.29%
- 7Warpips$0.19/1hr13h85.75%87.24%
- 8Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.21/1hr23h89.83%96.37%
- 9Mindustry$0.26/1hr39h92.86%95.72%
- 10Dome Keeper$0.26/1hr21h90.03%92.34%
- 11Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.28/1hr11h89.81%93.24%
- 12DG2: Defense Grid 2$0.28/1hr36h85.36%86.49%
- 13Bloons TD 6$0.31/1hr45h96.89%97.19%
- 14Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr28h90.25%94.66%
- 15Stronghold HD (2012)$0.37/1hr16h90.37%95.54%
- 16Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.37/1hr68h85.75%86.26%
- 17Progressbar95$0.40/1hr13h87.94%96.15%
- 18Night of the Dead$0.41/1hr30h80.64%76.97%
- 19Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.42/1hr24h93.48%97.53%
- 20They Are Billions$0.43/1hr70h85.12%85.14%
- 21Defense Grid: The Awakening$0.43/1hr23h88.85%96.06%
- 22Dungeon Defenders$0.43/1hr35h90.29%93.09%
- 23Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.47/1hr21h91.02%96.72%
- 24Tower Dominion$0.47/1hr37h85.22%85.69%
- 25Orcs Must Die!$0.48/1hr21h89.98%95.86%
- 26Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.49/1hr20h92.69%97.26%
- 27Creeper World 4$0.49/1hr51h88.17%94.95%
- 28Heretic's Fork$0.51/1hr20h84.99%85.03%
- 29Border Pioneer$0.52/1hr22h85.24%86.66%
- 30Rogue Tower$0.54/1hr28h84.11%82.63%
- 31The Riftbreaker$0.55/1hr52h88.81%90.38%
- 32Craft The World$0.58/1hr33h87.11%88.36%
- 33The Last Spell$0.61/1hr41h88.69%91.43%
- 34Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.61/1hr20h85.16%85.30%
- 35Orcs Must Die! 2$0.69/1hr22h89.83%92.31%
- 36Outpost: Infinity Siege$0.71/1hr35h73.68%65.37%
- 37Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense$0.71/1hr21h89.69%95.62%
- 38Marfusha:Sentinel Girls $0.73/1hr5h87.17%94.07%
- 39Age of Darkness: Final Stand$0.79/1hr36h79.61%74.53%
- 40Starship Troopers: Terran Command$0.79/1hr21h86.24%87.30%
- 41Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense$0.81/1hr25h89.64%93.96%
- 42Kingdom Two Crowns$0.83/1hr24h89.15%90.22%
- 43Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.85/1hr18h85.73%86.46%
- 44Emberward$0.87/1hr23h88.27%96.96%
- 45Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD$0.90/1hr22h86.72%88.23%
- 46Thronefall$0.91/1hr14h92.83%96.18%
- 47METAL GEAR SURVIVE$0.92/1hr20h78.02%65.79%
- 48Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap$0.93/1hr32h80.45%70.63%
- 49Castle Story$0.93/1hr11h74.73%65.06%
- 50Northend Tower Defense$0.94/1hr8h83.59%74.00%
- 51Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.99/1hr30h85.33%85.61%
- 52Nordhold$1.29/1hr16h85.45%86.89%
- 53Artisan TD$1.30/1hr13h85.35%86.83%
- 54Kingdom Eighties$1.35/1hr9h82.59%75.33%
- 55The Front$1.35/1hr15h75.63%66.93%
- 56Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess$1.42/1hr28h86.47%92.41%
- 57Orcs Must Die! 3$1.54/1hr19h85.49%85.83%
- 58Kingdom: New Lands$1.59/1hr9h85.29%85.54%
- 59Ship of Fools$1.60/1hr14h83.85%82.00%
- 60Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville$1.80/1hr17h75.73%70.79%
- 61Rock of Ages$1.86/1hr5h87.01%92.03%
- 62Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.92/1hr3h85.01%85.07%
- 63Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder$2.62/1hr6h85.18%85.72%
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.