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Defense Grid: The Awakening

Hidden Path Entertainment / Dec 8, 2008 / Indie, Strategy

windows
Steam Deck Playable

38 playing now

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.

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Defense Grid: The Board Game

2017-01-17

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What players say

Overwhelmingly Positive

96% positive, 4,066 reviews

Recommended661 hrs played

Have owned this practically for its whole life. Each time is usually several years removed from the last and is just as much fun and challenging each time. I am 79 now so it does take me longer to get through to gold on each story.

21 found this helpful, 2025-11-22

Recommended152 hrs played

After nearly two decades this is still the pinnacle of Tower Defense games in terms of strategy and consistency. Each new wave builds on the last meaning you can measure the effect of each new tower or upgrade on each new wave. You'll never just get overwhelmed out of nowhere since the difficulty ramps up in a predictable manner. This game is great so if you like Tower Defence games, this is a must have.

11 found this helpful, 2026-03-12

Recommended73 hrs played

I highly recommend this, it's super old but has so much replayability. Tower Defense is never usually this fun, they accomplished something special with this. The quality voice acting has aged very well, funny British AI man is always solid. There is a bug where sometimes your missile towers won't target a random flier, in that case backspace (to reload checkpoint) will be your best friend.

9 found this helpful, 2026-03-02

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