Defense Grid: The Awakening

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 5,054 reviews of which 4,862 were positive and 192 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

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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Requirements

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Windows

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)

Reviews

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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!

May 2024

Ol' Reliable There will be a TL;DR at the end. ~ I've been playing this game since 2012. I don't boot it up too frequently, but I have well over 100 hours on it. Once you boot this game up and check under its hood - you're going to find that quite a shocker. It's really a rudimentary title - almost a glorified flash game. There's only a handful of towers, and the levels do very little to introduce interesting twists to the very basic tower defense mentality of slapping damagy thingies and debuff thingies along a strict path the enemies mindlessly stumble through to your precious objective. While it is a 3D title, it doesn't do too much to stand out in the otherwise monotonous ocean of titles doing the exact same thing. There's no variety, no longevity, no payoff, no grind, no reason to boot it up or try it out in the first place.... so why have I spent so much time playing around with it? When I had this game on my XBOX 360 - it was a very simple title that was equal parts mindless as well as easy on the hardware. Over 10 years ago, my internet was slower and the 360 was not known for its extravagance in hard drives - so any time I'd want to download content onto my console, it would be stuck loading for hours. Instead of doing something sensible (like reading a book or touching grass) I booted up this game instead. It's just that simple - I'd mindlessly drool into the palm of my own hand as I upgraded towers and laid waste to entire swaths of alien life. The things that bring it down are also the very things that elevate it. There are no cutscenes, no real story, no depth, no intricacy, no profound investment - the lack of these things make it bland and flavorless dross - but also make it the ideal game to boot up when you want to turn your brain off and watch things on the screen sizzle. It's the perfect balance of engagement to string you along for periods of time without requiring much thought or mindfulness - and is super light on your computer. To this day, it's still my go-to piece of entertainment when I want to kill a few minutes to wait for something to download. ~ TL;DR 5.5/10 Defense Grid: The Awakening is a Competent little game. I think everyone should give it a little try if they can catch it on sale. It's a lot of samey content to chew through for the coming years and doesn't need to see the light of your computer screen for any other reason than to jingle keys for your passing interest. As inconsequential and dispassionate as it is, there is a home for it in the slow times between other games where it will treat you right and keep your attention for only as long as it takes to move along the linear path of your own life.

Jan. 2024

This is the best TD game I have played by far. Good GFX and plenty of challenges. The only 2 things this game lacks is being able to upgrade more than twice and a better return for aliens killed in later waves. Mind you, a complete sandbox mode would be welcomed so we can design our own tracks.

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-75% 7.99€ 1.99€

9.3

4,862

192

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Developer

Hidden Path Entertainment

Publisher

Hidden Path Entertainment

Release 08 Dec 2008

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