Defense Grid: The Awakening overview

Overview

Defense Grid: The Awakening comes from Hidden Path Entertainment and is published by Hidden Path Entertainment. It arrived on Steam on Dec 8, 2008, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Remote Play on TV, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Defense Grid: The Awakening's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 36 players at 8 October 2026 - 08:32:55 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1,674. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 96% positive across 5,380 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Defense Grid: The Awakening is available in 5 languages including:

5 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, oflc, and nzoflc

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Defense Grid: The Awakening has sold up to 719,757 units and has 4,533 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $4,519,295. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Defense Grid: The Awakening overview details

Defense Grid: The Awakening combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

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. Beautiful environments, spectacular effects, and a dynamic, engaging soundtrack bring the world to life. The controls are intuitive and the gameplay is deep — the special attacks and properties of each tower work together to provide many ways to succeed. High Replayability There are approximately 8 hours of gameplay in the main storyline, and many hours of play in challenge modes that give players unique starting conditions and objectives. Each game level is very replayable, and can be solved in many different ways, with increasing rewards for improved efficiency. Wide Variety of Enemies Over the course of the game, players battle 15 different enemy types that become increasingly stronger, and employ a variety of strategies in an attempt to bypass the player's defenses. As the levels progress, the enemies become tougher and more difficult to defeat. 20 Unique Levels Defense Grid: The Awakening has 20 unique environments, each with a different placement of roads, tower build locations, and open areas to plan a strategy around. Numerous Tower Options and Upgrades There are 10 different tower types with 3 levels of capability each. Each tower has unique trade offs that affect ideal placement, such as line-of-sight attack or ballistic trajectory fire. Some towers improve other nearby towers, and some are ideal at specifi…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Defense Grid: The Awakening is listed as a game with $9.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Remote Play on TV, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 36 players at 8 October 2026 - 08:32:55 UTC, a tracked peak of 1,674, and 96% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Tower DefenseStrategySci-fiSingleplayerIndieAliensFuturisticAddictiveTouch-FriendlyReplay ValueAdventureActionController

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