Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 94%Very Positive · 94%2020

$19.99

US Steam price, checked 4 h ago

The verdict

A charming villain-themed Kingdom Rush with a flexible 5-tower loadout and lots of content. It's easy, slow and unbalanced, with save-loss bugs and paid DLC, so skip it if you want a hard game.

Great for

Kingdom Rush fans and newcomers who like experimenting with tower loadouts, villain humor and Easter eggs

Main risk

Too easy and slow with unbalanced towers and heroes; paid DLC and save-loss bugs add risk

What players love

Flexible tower loadout with big variety

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“The ability to choose your loadout before each level is fantastic, and the maps can get pretty challenging towards the end.”
Steam review · 31.1 h played ↗

“The upgrade of the standard buildings was replaced by a choice of different buildings, which gives huge variety in playthroughs.”
Steam review · translated · 13.3 h played ↗

“I really liked how they changed how towers worked this time around. It felt fun to mix and match them to try different strategies.”
Steam review · 43.2 h played ↗

Playing as the villain is a fun twist

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“Very creative. Love Playing as the villains.”
Steam review · 3.2 h played ↗

“Very cool game, it's great to play as the villains.”
Steam review · translated · 5.6 h played ↗

“I always have wondered when was little why are they not making a game from the 'baddies' perspective.”
Steam review · 3.9 h played ↗

Many varied heroes

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“Incredible and highly diverse roster of heroes that are a blast to level up”
Steam review · 59.9 h played ↗

“My favorite Kingdom Rush game, heroes are so good, especially Isfet”
Steam review · 114 h played ↗

Charming art, humor and Easter eggs

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“Chock full of pop-culture references and humor”
Steam review · 31.3 h played ↗

“Interesting Easter eggs from games, cartoons and movies.”
Steam review · translated · 39.8 h played ↗

Lots of content, stages and DLC campaigns

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“Great game, there is so much content in this one!”
Steam review · 16.9 h played ↗

“Plus, after the story there are lots of mini-campaigns and the map itself is big.”
Steam review · translated · 10.1 h played ↗

Modding community (Revengeance) improves it

Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews

“ReVengeance mod turned this rather lackluster KR game into a fantastic challenge and a game worthy of its predecessors.”
Steam review · 441.3 h played ↗

What players complain about

Slow waves and no speed-up button

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“There is still no fast forward button. Sometimes it can be super frustrating to just wait and wait for the waves to pass.”
Steam review · 2.8 h played ↗

“The game is insanely boring, they should have added 2x speed.”
Steam review · translated · 6.7 h played ↗

Unbalanced towers and heroes

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“The towers are either ridiculously good and pretty much make the game a cakewalk, or they're utterly useless”
Steam review · 44.4 h played ↗

“Bad balance between different towers and heroes. Some towers are entirely useless and some are way too strong.”
Steam review · 3.8 h played ↗

Expensive DLC and greedy monetization

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“2 DLCs for 10 euros that bring two hours of gameplay (10 lvls total), when whole game normaly costs 16 euros (30 lvls).”
Steam review · 48.9 h played ↗

“cant recommend because to get all 126 stars you have to buy dlc-s .”
Steam review · 31.6 h played ↗

Crashes and bugs

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“It's unplayable since the game crashes when loading a campaign if you have any additional input devices connected to your pc.”
Steam review · 11.7 h played ↗

“There is such a horrible feeling when you clear the final wave only for the game to hang and never progress”
Steam review · 15.8 h played ↗

Too easy and low difficulty

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“the game is just too damn easy.”
Steam review · 14.9 h played ↗

“Even on the highest difficulty I was only partially paying attention, gone are the intense moments and decisions of Kingdom Rush 1-3.”
Steam review · 13.7 h played ↗

Save progress wiped or lost

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews

“Game wipes saves randomly (and overwrites steam cloud backups) - there are a ton of bug reports for this”
Steam review · 25.1 h played ↗

“it does not save your progress...like ever.”
Steam review · 94.8 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 7

ProcessorDual Core CPU

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsOpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM.

Storage2 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 10

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsOpenGL 3.0 compliant with 1.0GB of video RAM.

OSWindows 7

ProcessorDual Core CPU

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsOpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM.

Storage2 GB available space

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