Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense is a tower defense, strategy and 2d game developed and published by Ironhide Game Studio.
Released on October 17th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 11 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 6,982 reviews of which 6,696 were positive and 286 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense into these genres:

Tower Defense Strategy 2D Singleplayer Difficult Casual Building Tactical Medieval Cartoony Action-Adventure Fantasy Choices Matter Action Adventure Indie Pixel Graphics RPG Stylized Exploration

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Dual Core CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM.
Storage: 500 MB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X Lion 10.7.5
Processor: Dual Core CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM.
Storage: 500 MB available space

Linux

Processor: Dual Core CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM. Mesa 14 or later.
Storage: 500 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

Kingdom Rush Origins is the third installment in the Kingdom Rush series and the chronological prequel to the first Kingdom Rush game. Taking place on the southern continent 30 years before the original game, the enemy factions and towers are entirely new as we play as the Sylvan elves instead of the Linerean Army like the first game. The game follows a typical tower defense formula with plenty of other systems that improve the experience. The main gameplay consists of building towers in strategic areas to form choke points with barracks and your hero, and using spells when necessary to support your defense. There is plenty of strategic depth to be had- enemies have special abilities and armor, so you will need to consider that when formulating a defense to beat a level. One thing that this game does incredibly well is the down time between upgrading your towers. In other tower defense games, it can become mindless and boring quite fast waiting for enemies to die so you can get the next upgrade. Kingdom Rush Origins completely subverts this typically genre complaint by always giving the player something to do. Reinforcements can be placed anywhere you desire and have extensive techniques to support your defense. Your hero has special abilities that can be micro-managed to get the most benefit from them. You have a variety of spells that can be used strategically to clear hordes of enemies that would otherwise break through. Almost every level has some kind of interactable to soften up or kill enemies, bringing benefits if you care to pay attention to them. The content flow in this game is immaculate. Every level has something new, whether it is an enemy, tower, interactable, bonus tower, or mechanic to strategize around. In addition, every level has 2 challenge modes by completing the base level, and these can be fun and challenging to try and complete. There is also metagame progression to be made if you're interested in that kind of stuff. Completing levels will give you stars that can be used to purchase permanent upgrades for your towers and spells. Each hero also has upgradable abilities and XP can be earned for them simply by playing levels. It's very satisfying to get each upgrade as they all feel considerably impactful. Audio and visuals are excellent. The drawn graphics and animations convey so much character rarely seen in other games, and the towers all feel badass and awesome once you upgrade them, partly thanks to the neat little one-liners they deliver. The comics seen at the beginning of some levels are great too, and help the player feel invested in the story. Speaking of which, Kingdom Rush Origins does the best job conveying a story of the 4 games in the series. It provides plenty of character development and fanservice for the original Kingdom Rush game. This game is probably the best tower defense game out there. If you're considering it, then I would highly recommend, even if you haven't played the original KR!

Dec. 2024

A really fun Kingdom Rush entry. The most glaring downside for me is that the artillery options are not particularly exciting; the Arch-Druid Henge isn't great IMO, while the Weirdwood is cool but expensive (both have their uses, though). But there are a bunch of viable heroes and I like the upgrade paths more than those of the base game and Frontiers. And it's really fun that both barracks units are fantastic and have distinct uses from each other.

Nov. 2024

The prequel to Kingdom Rush, and probably my favourite game of the series. The game mostly retains how heroes work from Frontiers for the most part but now heroes all have their own unique hero spells. The classic four tower types (Barracks, Archers, Wizards, and Artillery) all have an elven twist to them, with Barracks getting the biggest glow up in this game compared to previous entries. Highly recommend for fans of the series.

Aug. 2024

I picked up Kingdom Rush Origins during the Steam Summer Sale and put in about 9 hours over the last couple of days, which is quite a bit for me. The game has some solid points— the graphics are vibrant and appealing, and the gameplay hits that sweet spot for tower defense fans. The variety of heroes adds some depth, and there’s definitely good replay value. On the downside, it can feel a bit repetitive after a while, and the difficulty spikes might frustrate some players. Still, if you’re into tower defense, it’s a solid pick.

June 2024

It is a good tower defense game, but the balance is too bad. You only need the magic arrow tower and two barracks to pass almost all levels. Except for the occasional magic tower, other towers are useless and not as fun as the front line.

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12.49€

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Developer

Ironhide Game Studio

Publisher

Ironhide Game Studio

Release 17 Oct 2018

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