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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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.
  1. 1GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.04/1hr
  2. 2Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr
  3. 3Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr
  4. 4Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr
  5. 5Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr
  6. 6最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr
  7. 7The Last Spell$0.12/1hr
  8. 8Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr
  9. 9Mindustry$0.16/1hr
  10. 10Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.19/1hr
  11. 11Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr
  12. 127 Days to Die$0.20/1hr
  13. 13Warpips$0.20/1hr
  14. 14Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.21/1hr
  15. 15Bloons TD 6$0.22/1hr
  16. 16Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr
  17. 17Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr
  18. 18Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr
  19. 19Cluckmech Oasis$0.33/1hr
  20. 20Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.36/1hr
  21. 21Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$0.36/1hr
  22. 22They Are Billions$0.38/1hr
  23. 23Tower Dominion$0.39/1hr
  24. 24The Front$0.41/1hr
  25. 25Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.44/1hr
  26. 26METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.44/1hr
  27. 27Progressbar95$0.47/1hr
  28. 28Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr
  29. 29Craft The World$0.49/1hr
  30. 30The Riftbreaker$0.53/1hr
  31. 31Wall World$0.54/1hr
  32. 32Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense$0.56/1hr
  33. 33Bloons TD 5$0.57/1hr
  34. 34Nordhold$0.58/1hr
  35. 35Castle Story$0.59/1hr
  36. 36Age of Darkness: Final Stand$0.62/1hr
  37. 37Heretic's Fork$0.66/1hr
  38. 38Ship of Fools$0.66/1hr
  39. 39Artisan TD$0.70/1hr
  40. 40Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.71/1hr
  41. 41Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.74/1hr
  42. 42Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense$0.76/1hr
  43. 43Thronefall$0.77/1hr
  44. 44Orcs Must Die!$0.80/1hr
  45. 45Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.83/1hr
  46. 46Night of the Dead$0.86/1hr
  47. 47Starship Troopers: Terran Command$0.87/1hr
  48. 48Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap$0.89/1hr
  49. 49Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD$0.90/1hr
  50. 50Orcs Must Die! 2$0.91/1hr
  51. 51Emberward$1.06/1hr
  52. 52Border Pioneer$1.09/1hr
  53. 53Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.12/1hr
  54. 54METAL GEAR SURVIVE$1.18/1hr
  55. 55Orcs Must Die! 3$1.39/1hr
  56. 56X-Morph: Defense$1.67/1hr
  57. 57Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess$1.83/1hr
  58. 58Rock of Ages$2.05/1hr
  59. 59Ratropolis$2.08/1hr
  60. 60Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville$2.28/1hr
  61. 61Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder$2.55/1hr

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.