Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense is a tower defense, strategy and 2d game developed and published by Ironhide Game Studio.
Released on October 17th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 11 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 7,084 reviews of which 6,792 were positive and 292 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense into these genres:

Tower Defense Strategy 2D Singleplayer Difficult Casual Building Tactical Medieval Cartoony Action-Adventure Fantasy Choices Matter Action Adventure Indie Pixel Graphics RPG Stylized Exploration

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM.
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OS X Lion 10.7.5
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM.
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
Linux
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM. Mesa 14 or later.
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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May 2025
Great game. I have completed this game 3 times now. 1st in high school, then in college and just now. Maybe I will come back for the fourth time.
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May 2025
Super fun and addictive, one of the GOATs of the tower defense genre. More towers would be the only improvement i can think of
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April 2025
The game is great, but the difficulty spike for the additional missions is, as usual, unbearable.
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Jan. 2025
Kingdom Rush Origins is the third installment in the Kingdom Rush series and the chronological prequel to the first Kingdom Rush game. Taking place on the southern continent 30 years before the original game, the enemy factions and towers are entirely new as we play as the Sylvan elves instead of the Linerean Army like the first game. The game follows a typical tower defense formula with plenty of other systems that improve the experience. The main gameplay consists of building towers in strategic areas to form choke points with barracks and your hero, and using spells when necessary to support your defense. There is plenty of strategic depth to be had- enemies have special abilities and armor, so you will need to consider that when formulating a defense to beat a level. One thing that this game does incredibly well is the down time between upgrading your towers. In other tower defense games, it can become mindless and boring quite fast waiting for enemies to die so you can get the next upgrade. Kingdom Rush Origins completely subverts this typically genre complaint by always giving the player something to do. Reinforcements can be placed anywhere you desire and have extensive techniques to support your defense. Your hero has special abilities that can be micro-managed to get the most benefit from them. You have a variety of spells that can be used strategically to clear hordes of enemies that would otherwise break through. Almost every level has some kind of interactable to soften up or kill enemies, bringing benefits if you care to pay attention to them. The content flow in this game is immaculate. Every level has something new, whether it is an enemy, tower, interactable, bonus tower, or mechanic to strategize around. In addition, every level has 2 challenge modes by completing the base level, and these can be fun and challenging to try and complete. There is also metagame progression to be made if you're interested in that kind of stuff. Completing levels will give you stars that can be used to purchase permanent upgrades for your towers and spells. Each hero also has upgradable abilities and XP can be earned for them simply by playing levels. It's very satisfying to get each upgrade as they all feel considerably impactful. Audio and visuals are excellent. The drawn graphics and animations convey so much character rarely seen in other games, and the towers all feel badass and awesome once you upgrade them, partly thanks to the neat little one-liners they deliver. The comics seen at the beginning of some levels are great too, and help the player feel invested in the story. Speaking of which, Kingdom Rush Origins does the best job conveying a story of the 4 games in the series. It provides plenty of character development and fanservice for the original Kingdom Rush game. This game is probably the best tower defense game out there. If you're considering it, then I would highly recommend, even if you haven't played the original KR!
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Nov. 2024
The prequel to Kingdom Rush, and probably my favourite game of the series. The game mostly retains how heroes work from Frontiers for the most part but now heroes all have their own unique hero spells. The classic four tower types (Barracks, Archers, Wizards, and Artillery) all have an elven twist to them, with Barracks getting the biggest glow up in this game compared to previous entries. Highly recommend for fans of the series.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense received 6,792 positive votes out of a total of 7,084 achieving an impressive rating of 9.27.
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Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense was developed and published by Ironhide Game Studio.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense is a single-player game.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense does not currently offer any DLC.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense does not support Steam Remote Play.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense 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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Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense
12.49€
9.3
6,792
292
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Ironhide Game Studio
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Release 17 Oct 2018
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