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Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 96% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 12,021
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (21%); after 10h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 96% 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 12,106 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 13.7h for positive, 10.6h 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 (96% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (98)
story milestone ending side
- Learning the Ropes Finish the Tutorial with 3 stars. 100%
- Mighty I Slay 500 enemies. 91%
- Not a Moment to Waste Call 15 waves early. 88%
- Pork's Off the Menu Defeat Goregrind. 81%
- Mighty II Slay 3000 enemies. 80%
- War Masonry Build 100 towers. 79%
- Promotion Denied Kill 30 Cult Priests before they transform into Abominations. 77%
- Circle of Life Attend the presentation of the newborn Arborean. 77%
- Glory to the King Rescue the Linirean King. 73%
- Pest Control Kill 300 Glarelings. 70%
- Saviour of the Green Get 3 stars on every stage of the Everadiant Forest. 69%
- Turn a Blind Eye Kill 100 Corruption Spawns while they are under the effects of the Glare. 67%
- Crafting in the Mines Collect all three pork chops in the Wildbeast Den. 66%
- Tipping the Scales Throw Robin Wood to the river. 66%
- Slippery Soldiers Complete The Eyesore Tower while preventing Mydrias from ensnaring your units. 65%
- Bye, Bye, Beautiful Defeat Seeres Mydrias 65%
- The cavalry is here! Summon 1000 reinforcements. 65%
- Conjuntivictory Defeat the Overseer. 63%
- Mighty III Slay 10000 enemies. 63%
- Silver for Monsters Help Gerhart slay the tree monster. 62%
- Crystal Clear Get 3 stars on every stage of the Forsaken Canyon. 62%
- Breaker of Chains Save the four elves in the Carmine Mines 60%
- Unending Riches Collect a total of 150000 gold. 56%
- Signature Techniques Use Hero Powers 500 times. 55%
- Wobba-Lubba-Dub-Dub! Repair Nick and Marty's portal gun. 55%
- Gem Spiller Break all of the gem baskets. 53%
- Starlight Help Fredo and Sammy escape from the Giant Spider. 52%
- Spectral Fury Defeat Navira and stop the Revenant invasion. 50%
- Game Over Push the Arboreans from the treetops. 50%
- Scrambled Eggs Kill 50 crokinder before they hatch. 48%
- Conqueror of the Void Get 3 stars on every stage of the Void Beyond. 48%
- Field Trip Ruiner Put out the camper's fire. 48%
- Weirder Things Help Ernie and Daston repel the Blinkers in the Blighted Farmlands. 47%
- Tree Hugger Complete Misty Ruins with at least one Weirdwood standing. 46%
- Most Delicious Feed some honey to Biggie the Arborean 46%
- Ovine Journalism Find Sheepy in each campaign terrain. 45%
- Smooth Oper-gator Help the friendly gator to start his boat. 43%
- Playful Friends Play 'burrow' with all of the Arboreans in the Heart of the Forest. 43%
- See ya later, alligator Defeat Abominor, the devourer. 39%
- No Flying Zone. Kill 50 Ballooning Spiders. 39%
- Take On Me Return Riff the Goblin to his home dimension. 37%
- Greenlit Allies Summon 10 Arborean Thornspears 36%
- Get the Party Started Solve the puzzle and summon the band. 35%
- Crowd Control Complete the Corruption Valley without any Flesh Behemoth spawning from the pit. 34%
- Rust In Peace Complete a stage without allowing any Animated Armor to respawn. 33%
- Hail to the K, baby! Find the crocodile king. 32%
- We Are All Mad Here Find the elusive cat in each Undying Fury campaign stage. 32%
- Forest Protector Reach level 10 with Nyru. 32%
- A Farewell to Arms Defeat Mygale, the Spider Queen. 31%
- Unfriendly Neighbor. Find the secrets of the mysterious spider person. 30%
- All the Small Things Eliminate 182 Blinkers. 29%
- Saviour of the forest Win the stage without losing any arborean flowers. 28%
- Runequest Activate all six runes throughout the Everadiant Forest. 28%
- A Cocoon of Surprises Help Fredo escape. 27%
- Crow Scarer Scare all the crows in Bleak Valley. 27%
- Nature's Wrath Kill 30 enemies using the Heart of the Arboreans. 26%
- Cleanup is Optional Complete the Ravaged Outskirts without clearing rubble from the strategic points. 23%
- Linirean Resistance Win a stage using only Linirean towers and heroes. 23%
- Self-Unemployment Defeat Grymbeard and stop the construction of the war machine. 23%
- Everything Changed... Defeat Red Boy and his fire army. 20%
- Lucus the Spider. Play with Lucus until he’s happy. 20%
- Kept You Waiting, Huh? Find the sneaky soldier in the Colossal Core. 19%
- Royal Captain Reach level 10 with Vesper. 19%
- Garbage Disposal Eliminate 10 Mad Tinkerers before they can spawn Scrap Drones. 19%
- Mechanical Burnout Overfeed the machine in the Darksteel Gates. 19%
- An Evil Wind is Rising Defeat Princess Iron Fan and her water army. 18%
- The Return of the Monkey King Defeat The Bull Demon King at his fortress. 17%
- Dark Lieutenant Reach level 10 with Raelyn. 16%
- None Shall Pass! Complete the Wildbeast Den without letting extra enemies go through the door. 16%
- Dark Ruthlessness Win a stage using only Dark Army towers and heroes 15%
- Seasoned General Complete the campaign on Veteran difficulty. 14%
- Unbound Victory Complete the Wicked Crossing without any Nightmares turning into Armored Nightmares. 14%
- Certified Extinguisher Defeat Murglun at Warden Fortress. 14%
- It's a Secret to Everyone Help Lank fish 5 rupees. 14%
- Obliterate! Find the pieces of the forbidden robot in each Colossal Dwarfare stage. 14%
- Dragonheart Help Lunaris’s soul ascend into a constellation. 13%
- Bash & Squash Defeat the Drakmother at the Breeding Ground 12%
- Come Out and Play! Help Speiro jump... down? 12%
- Age of Heroes Win all the Heroic Mode campaign challenges. 11%
- One Shot at Glory Eliminate 10 enemies with a single Darkray Tower beam. 11%
- Till It's Gone Make the Ender Egg finally disappear. 11%
- A Mouthful of Trouble Defeat Tyranthor at Crown of the Cloud Realm. 11%
- Untamed Beast Reach level 10 with Grimson. 11%
- Wealth and Prosperity Collect 8 Hongbaos on Tempest Island. 11%
- The Gift of Life Free the cloning experiment in the Replication Chamber. 11%
- Battle-hardened Wardens Reach wave 10 of stage 5 with all Warden Scholars alive. 11%
- Ironclad Win all the Iron Mode campaign challenges. 11%
- Mighty Monkey Help Wukong's distant cousin eliminate the strange plague. 9.6%
- Rock Beats... Rock? Make the statue win against itself. 8.6%
- Tangled Up Defeat Goregrind before jumping in Impossible difficulty 8.5%
- We're Not Gonna Take It Kill 15 Twisted Sisters before they can spawn a Nightmare. 8.4%
- Disturbing the Peace Interrupt the workers' lunch break in the Dominion Dome. 7.5%
- Master Tactician Complete the campaign on Impossible difficulty. 7.3%
- You Shall Not Cast! Save King Denas without letting Seeress Mydrias cast projections in Impossible Difficulty 6.5%
- Domo Arigato Get 20 enemies crushed by the giant fist in the Colossal Core. 6.4%
- Shut Your Mouth! Complete Dominion Dome while keeping Grymbeard from setting your towers on fire. 5.8%
- Factory Strike Complete Frantic Assembly without letting Grymbeard activate the conveyor belt. 5.4%
- Celestial Watery Grave Kill 14 enemies with one use of the fountain in Celestial Monkey Forest. 3.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.