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 5,077 reviews of which 4,883 were positive and 194 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam.

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

This is imho 36 Tower defense or assimilated games i played sorted by interest : Some people might find this list useful for discovering unknown TD. Legend : (TD) -> pure Tower Defense (ATD) -> Assimilated Tower Defense (FPSTD) -> First Person Shooter Tower Defense (S) -> Solo (M) -> Multiplayer 1- (Warcraft 3 & Starcraft's TD \o/) (TD) (M) 2- GemCraft Chasing Shadows (TD) (S) 3- Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal (ATD) (S) 4- Dungeon of the endless (ATD) (M) 5- Defender's Quest : Valley of the Forgotten (TD) (S) 6- Dungeon Warfare (TD) (S) 7- PixelJunk™ Monsters Ultimate (TD) (M) 8- Sanctum (FPSTD) (M) 9- Orc Must die 2 (FPSTD) (M) 10- Sanctum 2 (FPSTD) (M) 11- Kingdom Rush (TD) (S) 12- Kingdom Rush Frontiers (TD) (S) 13- Super Sanctum TD (TD) (S) 14- Plant VS Zombies (ATD) (S) 15- Defense Grid: The Awakening (TD) (S) 16- Dungeon Defenders (FPSTD) (M) 17- Space Run (ATD) (S) 18- Orc Must die (FPSTD) (S) 19- No heroes here (ATD) (M) 20- Fortified (FPSTD) (M) 21- Terrorhedron (TD) (M) 22- Evil Defenders (TD) (S) 23- Revenge of the Titans (ATD) (S) 24- Bloons TD 5 (TD) (M) 25- CastleStorm (ATD) (M) 26- Garden Rescue Christmas edition (TD) (S) 27- Garden Rescue (TD) (S) 28- Defend Your Life (TD) (S) 29- OTTTD (TD) (S) 30- Tower Wars (TD) (M) 31- Fort defense (TD) (S) 32- Royal defense (TD) (S) 33- Iron sea defender (TD) (S) 34- Zombo Buster Rising (ATD) (S) 35- Particula (TD) (M) 36- Bloons TD Battle (TD) (M)

Dec. 2024

Really good game. I remember getting this game back on Xbox 360 and playing it and it was lots of fun. 10/10

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!

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7.99€

9.3

4,883

194

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Developer

Hidden Path Entertainment

Publisher

Hidden Path Entertainment

Release 08 Dec 2008

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