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Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is a tower defense, strategy and sci-fi game developed and published by Hidden Path Entertainment.
Released on December 08th 2008 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 5,142 reviews of which 4,946 were positive and 196 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Defense Grid: The Awakening into these genres:

Tower Defense Strategy Sci-fi Singleplayer Indie Aliens Futuristic Addictive Touch-Friendly Replay Value Adventure Action Controller

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Minimum:

Supported OS: Windows XP, Vista
Processor: 1.8GHz CPU or higher
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Hard disk space: 1GB available space
DirectX version: DirectX 9.0c or higher, June 2008 version or later
Video: Video: DirectX 9 video card with shader 2 support such as the following:
ATI Radeon 9600 or newer (9600-9800, X300-X1950, HD 2400-HD 4870)
NVIDIA GeForce 6100 or newer (6100-6800, 7100-7950, 8300-8800, 9600-9800, or GTX 216-280)

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March 2025

Defense Grid remains the digital equivalent of comfort food—familiar, predictable, and engineered to satisfy without nourishing. You're paying not for innovation but for the dopamine hit of perfectly arranged towers executing predetermined strategies. The game's greatest achievement is making you feel clever for arriving at the exact solution the designers intended all along.

Dec. 2024

Really good game. I remember getting this game back on Xbox 360 and playing it and it was lots of fun. 10/10

Dec. 2024

Tower Grid: The Defending Even 15 years on, this is still the golden standard tower defense game from the genre's hayday. Rather than attempting to redefine the genre by adding original mechanics and twists, defense grid just does what it does best: bog standard tower defense with all the usual tropes, but so well balanced and polished that it becomes an art form. Graphics that are still pretty good looking today. Varied levels that alternate between maze type and path type. Satisfying special effects from the varied tower types. Added challenges and hard modes for replay value. ...and perhaps the most original thing for a TD game: a story alongside some voice acting, including a guest performance by Glad.O:S from the time Valve was still cool and did collabs. A journey in TD history, that's still very relevant and playable today.

Oct. 2024

One of the best tower defense games ever made, and there have been many. I had 100% achievements until DLC reduced that figure, and it wasn't from trying to complete the set, it was because the game modes and methods were so much fun. I sometimes could not believe the alternate ways to win. It's a puzzle game with quite a bit of freedom.

Aug. 2024

Some games are basically perfect, and this, for me, is one of them. I am not generally a huge fan of tower defence games, but this is so good that I have played it though to the end and enjoyed every minute. I would suggest waiting for a sale and buying it and all the expansions, because the base game 'campaign' is fairly short and will almost certainly leave you wanting more, which is provided in the DLC. It is a beautiful game. Perfectly balanced with lots of different ways to beat each well-designed stage. The different towers all have their uses, and once levelled up the awesome destruction is a joy to behold. All levels can be either failed dismally or beaten comprehensively, which shows how much thought went into their construction. Runs easily on my laptop and I encountered no bugs or crashes at all. If only all games were this good!

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Defense Grid: The Awakening is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 7.99€ on Steam.

Defense Grid: The Awakening received 4,946 positive votes out of a total of 5,142 achieving an impressive rating of 9.27.

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Defense Grid: The Awakening was developed and published by Hidden Path Entertainment.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is not playable on MacOS.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is not playable on Linux.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is a single-player game.

There are 6 DLCs available for Defense Grid: The Awakening. Explore additional content available for Defense Grid: The Awakening on Steam.

Defense Grid: The Awakening does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Defense Grid: The Awakening supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Hidden Path Entertainment

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Release 08 Dec 2008

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