Strategy
Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 54% of players who started
Started playing 95% of owners
Steam reviews 97% positive of 19,642
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 9 reviews are negative (11%); after 10h it's 1 in 50 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised less than in 88% of games we track.
- 54% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Nuts and Bolts” (Defeat The Juggernaut): only 74% of starters get there.
- 95% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 19,771 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 13.5h for positive, 9.4h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (94.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Nuts and Bolts Defeat The Juggernaut Most players quit here 74% −26
- Is he dead yeti? Defeat J.T. 66% −8
- Great Defender Complete the campaign. 54% −11
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (74)
story milestone ending side
- First Blood Kill one enemy. 100%
- Bloodlust Kill 500 enemies. 91%
- Constructor Build 30 towers. 89%
- Impatient Call a wave within 3 seconds of the icon showing up. 89%
- What's that? Open 5 information cards. 86%
- Fearless Call all waves early in a single mission. 85%
- Armageddon Use Rain of Fire 5 times in a single stage. 85%
- Champion of Linirea Train a hero up to level 5. 83%
- Daring Call 10 waves early. 83%
- Death from above Kill 100 enemies with meteor showers. 79%
- Starry Earn 15 stars. 77%
- Engineer Build 100 towers. 76%
- Slayer Kill 2.500 enemies 76%
- Home Improvement Upgrade all basic tower types to level3. 75%
- Nuts and Bolts Defeat The Juggernaut 74%
- The Architect Build 150 towers. 70%
- Legend of Linirea. Train a hero up to max level. 66%
- Cannon Fodder Send 1.000 soldiers to their deaths. 66%
- Is he dead yeti? Defeat J.T. 66%
- Die Hard Have your soldiers regenerate a total of 50.000 life. 65%
- Super Mario Earn 30 stars. 61%
- G.I. Joe Train 1.00 soldiers. 57%
- This is the end Defeat Vez'nan. 57%
- Specialist Build all 8 towers specializations. 56%
- We dine in hell! Have your soldiers survive the explosion of 300 demons. 54%
- Great Defender Complete the campaign. 54%
- Terminator Kill 10.000 enemies. 53%
- Imperial Saviour Have at least 3 Imperial Guards survive in the Citadel. 51%
- AC/DC Kill 300 enemies with electricity. 50%
- Entangled Hold 500 or more enemies with Wrath of the Forest. 47%
- Are you not entertained? Have a single barbarian kill 10 enemies. 46%
- Ovinophobia Kill 10 or more sheep with your hands. 45%
- Toxicity Kill 50 enemies by poison damage. 44%
- Dust to Dust! Disintegrate 50 or more enemies. 44%
- Tactician Change soldiers' rally point 200 times. 44%
- Indecisive Sell 5 towers in a single mission. 41%
- Medic! Have your Paladins heal a total of 7.000 life. 41%
- Axe rain! Throw 500 or more axes. 40%
- Superstar Earn 45 stars. 39%
- Energy Network Build 4 Tesla towers in any stage. 39%
- Orcs must die Defeat Gul'Thak and its minions. 39%
- Forest Diplomacy Recruit max elves at The Silveroak Outpost. 37%
- Beam me up, Scotty Teleport 250 or more enemies. 37%
- Twin Rivers Angler Catch a fish. 36%
- Shepherd Polymorph 50 enemies into sheep. 36%
- Arachnophobia Defeat Sarelgaz and its minions. 34%
- Ratatouille Kill 15 Wererats before they sicken any soldier. 33%
- Rocketeer Shoot 100 missiles. 33%
- 50 shots, 50 kills Snipe 50 enemies. 32%
- I'am the law Do not let The Kingpin escape. 32%
- Coolrunning Defeat 10 Troll Pathfinders while they're treading on ice. 31%
- Real Estate Sell 30 towers. 31%
- Like a Henderson Free the sasquatch on the Icewind Pass. 31%
- Holy Chorus Have your Paladins perform 100 Holy Strikes. 30%
- Lumberjack Defeat Greenmuck and its minions. 29%
- Don't feed the troll Defeat Ulguk-Hai the Troll Warlord. 27%
- Scrat's Meal Find the elusive acorn. 25%
- Spore Kill 25 Shrooms without them poisoning your soldiers. 24%
- Super Mushroom Defeat Myconid, the Rotten Fungus. 24%
- Game of Crowns Defeat Lord Blackburn to avoid war between kingdoms. 23%
- Clustered Drop 1.000 or more bomblets with the cluster bomb. 22%
- Hell-o! Defeat Moloch the Demon Overlord. 22%
- Army of One Defeat 9 legions before they replicate. 22%
- Free Fredo Help Fredo escape. 22%
- Elementalist Summon 5 rock elementals in any one stage. 21%
- Sunburner! Fire the Sunray 20 times. 18%
- Plants vs Trolls Find the 5 legendary lost ice-shrooms. 17%
- Cowabunga Find the ninja master rat. 17%
- Still counts as one Have your Elves deal 10000 points of damage. 13%
- Nevermore Capture the attention of the mysterious crow. 13%
- Supreme Defender Complete the campaign in Veteran mode. 13%
- Heroic Defender Complete all heroic stages. 12%
- Iron Defender Complete all iron stages. 12%
- Nessie Discover the hidden monster under water. 12%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.