Gnomes on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

A turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde.

Gnomes is a turn-based, tower defense and procedural generation game developed and published by DYSTOPIAN.
Released on April 04th 2025 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 407 reviews of which 401 were positive and 6 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 8.99€ on Steam with a 10% discount.

The Steam community has classified Gnomes into these genres:

Turn-Based Tower Defense Procedural Generation Rogue-like Farming Sim Economy Dwarf Survival City Builder Base-Building Pixel Graphics Colony Sim Strategy Atmospheric Colorful Dark Singleplayer Difficult Replay Value Rogue-lite

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10, Windows 11
Processor: 2 Cores / 2.0 GHz+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 40 MB available space

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April 2025

MILLIONS WEAR THE HATS. This game is much deeper than I had expected it to be and poses a good challenge as well. For me coming from Bloons Tower Defense 6, this provides a fresh and unique take on the tower defense genre as it is spun up as a roguelite. Plus the gnome pixel graphics are quite charming.

April 2025

This game needs mod support. I beg the devs for mod support. This game could beat Inscryption with mod support. I have never played a game as elegantly concise with its mechanics as this before. It's CRAZY good. But if it had.... mod support..... it'd be turbo insanely good. I will do anything for mod support. Besides that though there are a number of more normal QoL issues that will probably be patched in in the future anyway. There's currently no way of zooming out or zooming in the camera. You can't do anything like drag a box to select more than one moveable object at a time. You can't select a specific type of object from offscreen (such as wanting to select a specific type of gnome that you know you have idle somewhere, but isn't currently on the screen) and there isn't anything like an encyclopaedia or tips section anywhere that you can use to see what the specific stat icons on each item means. The game is intuitive in a lot of ways but it took me a while to realize what the hourglass and stun icons meant, and in any case it would be really awesome to have a gallery that you could use to view all of your currently unlocked items like Balatro has. The base game itself is literally so awesome tho you have to play it lol. And of course... with mods... the already-considerable depth of the gameplay and units would explode through the roof.......

April 2025

In the current GPU shortage, this game reminds me that fun can still be had on an i3 laptop. If black ops 6 is 102 GB then you could fit around 2550 Gnomes for each copy of BO6. How do you know if a video game is good? Custom built engine designed for the game Not using Unreal Engine Fair pricing No microtransactions Mobile port potential Is exactly what it says it is default background is black (OLED users be edging) Has unique soundtrack for each level that is memorable Every level is unique and presents new challenges Every level has new enemies and unique bosses with unique abilities Same pace from the beginning to the end (End game not rushed, for example) Extremely Optimized 40 megabytes Stable 120 FPS on integrated graphics Has random mode and endless mode for replay value What other game has most of these features? Slay the spire Binding of Isaac Enter the gungeon Spelunky Dead cells That's how you know you got a good game. The age of triple A is over.

April 2025

WOW quite a surprise seeing such a fun tower defense game with a remarkable variety of strategies and bizarre ideas just poop out of the ether! DYSTOPIAN's first release on steam is charmingly fun and refreshing! (Especially for tower defense games that suffer from being extremely generic and repetitive or lacking any amount of meaty content.) Gnomes though at release could use a few more gnome and goblin types, still has a very peppy and upbeat charm, soundtrack, responsiveness and polish that keeps me happy despite the miserable existance alot of steam games leave me in. Though I main problem I have is the claims of "deep roguelike progression" XD..... So far you merely unlock some new starting unit and building combos, and landscapes with just a few new goblin types. Abit underwhelming but with a sprite based game like this I'm sure new content will be a sitch for the developer to make. Also more sound effects for the goblins and gnomes, maybe each type could be unique, and maybe even female variants for both races would add some nice variety. (3.5/5 recommended)

April 2025

I found this game when it was a small demo, and I fell in love with it immediately. I followed the Discord to track the updates/features that were being worked on, and the developers did not waste the opportunity to make something great: the synergies are rewarding to use, making gold is a fun investment, and it's satisfying to find the perfect route using plants, houses, n gnomes. Even the calming music is well done, especially mixed with the ambient noise, which changes per map! (forests have chirping birds, swamps have croaking frogs, deserts have wind storms, etc) If you like tower defense and/or rougelikes, you gotta try it out.

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-10% 9.99€ 8.99€

9.1

401

Online players

176

Developer

DYSTOPIAN

Publisher

DYSTOPIAN

Release 04 Apr 2025

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