Anomaly: Warzone Earth on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!

Anomaly: Warzone Earth is a strategy, indie and tower defense game developed and published by 11 bit studios.
Released on April 08th 2011 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 7 languages: English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Spanish - Spain and Italian.

It has received 4,622 reviews of which 4,025 were positive and 597 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 1.09€ on Steam with a 89% discount.

The Steam community has classified Anomaly: Warzone Earth into these genres:

Strategy Indie Tower Defense Action Sci-fi Singleplayer Touch-Friendly RTS Top-Down Aliens Difficult Arcade

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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 *: Microsoft Windows XP SP2/Microsoft Windows Vista/Microsoft Windows 7
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 / ATI Radeon X1800 or equivalent
DirectX®: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 1 GB
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard

MacOS

OS: OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800
Memory: 2 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 / ATI Radeon X1800 or equivalent
Hard Drive: 1 GB

Linux

OS: Linux Ubuntu 12.04
Processor: Dual-core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
Memory: 1GB Memory
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11 - AMD/ATI SUPPORT UNSTABLE DUE TO DRIVER ISSUES ), OpenGL 2.1
Hard Drive: 4GB Hard Drive Space
Sound: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card
NOTICE: THE GAME DOESN'T SUPPORT INTEL GRAPHICS CARDS

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

Doesn't run well on Windows 11, but pretty good fun. Considerable challenge too, trying to juggle abilities, placing them properly and choosing which to use at the right time. Not bad.

Feb. 2025

Interesting concept. You play as the force trying to get through a tower defense map. Background is alien wreckage has hit Earth, and you are to investigate. Decent enough. Might want to wait for a discount.

July 2024

The game is very good, but sometimes crash after Alt+Tab'ing.

June 2024

Great little gem of a strategy game which came out all the way back in 2011. It feels modern and all around polished. I'm wondering if there have been any other games of this type since as the concept and execution are brilliant and clean.

June 2024

I reached Mission 13 out of 15 in this game before giving up. This was a fairly innovative game when it came out. For the most part, I think this game delivers on the promise of its concept, a compelling reverse tower defense. They could have easily tried making the player control many forces and essentially turned it into a specialized RTS or MOBA, but I like that they kept the game focused on a single squad moving through a level together. It keeps the game conceptually simple. That doesn't mean the game is easy. It quickly becomes clear early in the campaign that buying some optimal units and letting them run freely isn't sufficient for survival. In order to complete most of the missions, you need to do things like swap unit positions mid-combat, deploy power-ups in just the right places and times, and exchange unit types to deal with changing threats. In this way, it actually has a sort of real-time action feel like a twitch shooter, but with the benefit of being able to pause the game at any time to issue commands, which means you can still make these seemingly split-second decisions at your own pace, if that makes any sense. I actually had to look up gameplay videos online to learn how to clear some missions because the exact mechanics of how to overcome certain threats weren't always clear to me, even after repeated attempts. However, it never felt like the game was impossible, only that I needed to practice very granular control of my units to win. The reason I ended up quitting was that Mission 13 in particular introduces elements of randomness which just don't sit well with me. The game is challenging enough as it is without getting completely screwed by RNG. The checkpoint system is about as nice as one could reasonably expect, but it's still not perfect. The problem is that you only ever have the choice between restarting the mission from the beginning or the last checkpoint, but even with checkpoints fairly close together as the crow flies, some of the multi-enemy encounters in between them involve many careful steps, so clearing a bunch of enemies only to die to the last one before a checkpoint results in the massive chore that is starting over and trying to finish all the enemies again in a slightly more efficient way. Other times, you make a mistake before a check, and the only way to undo it is to start the mission over again from the beginning, since you can't choose checkpoints. The missions get longer and consist more checkpoints as you progress through the game, which sounds like intuitive game design, but I found myself wishing the missions were shorter so that I wouldn't have to restart as often or deal with the frustration of trying to redeem a bad checkpoint. Mission 13 essentially adds random enemy air strikes, so on top of dealing with all the normal chaos of the game and its checkpoint system, you can get unlucky and be forced into an air strike that wipes your entire team out in one fell swoop. I had numerous times where everything was going great, and then an air strike appeared which I either couldn't avoid, or would have to choose an extremely sub-optimal route through difficult enemies to avoid. I figured enough was enough. I had gotten what I wanted out of the game.

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-89% 9.99€ 1.09€

8.4

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Developer

11 bit studios

Publisher

11 bit studios

Release 08 Apr 2011

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