Orcs Must Die!

🔥 Orcs Must Die! is an absolute blast! This 2011 gem from Robot Entertainment perfectly blends action, strategy, and tower defense into a chaotic and incredibly satisfying experience.

🏹 Why You’ll Love It:
✔ Fun & Addictive Gameplay – Set traps, cast spells, and use weapons to stop waves of orcs from invading your stronghold. Every level feels like a puzzle, and mastering trap combos is super rewarding.
✔ Great Variety of Traps & Weapons – From spike traps to springboards that send orcs flying, the game gives you plenty of creative ways to cause mayhem.
✔ Smooth Controls & Satisfying Combat – Whether you’re slicing through enemies with a blade staff or sniping them with a crossbow, the combat feels fluid and fun.
✔ Charming Humor & Style – The game doesn’t take itself too seriously, and the witty protagonist keeps things entertaining.
✔ Solid Replayability – Different difficulty levels, skillful trap placements, and leaderboard chasing will keep you coming back for more.

💀 Orcs Must Die! is an easy recommendation for anyone who enjoys tower defense with a twist. It’s challenging, hilarious, and packed with orc-crushing goodness. Still holds up after all these years!

⭐ 8/10 – Orcs had it coming. 😈🎯

it is very interting.

I'm not super great at this game, and though I wanted to play more of it I just didn't have the time it takes to put into it. That said, I think it's pretty well made and does everything you'd want it to for this type of tower defense game. I really hope someday I can get back to it and really get into this series.

Dale

Its a fun and unique tower defense game. but if You're on Windows 11 24H2 like me, you're unable to open the game unless you downgrade to windows 10, or i guess a older version of windows 11 which is outrageous to just play this game. There is a fix though. In the following folder: \orcs must die!\data\startup Create a file, user.cfg. Open the file In Notepad, type in window, save and close The game should now run, but in a window

im rsigma

pure bliss . orcs must die 1 and 2 are amazing. Robot entertainment sucks!!!

So addictive

Robot Entertainment
What a great company; a windows 11 update 14 years after the game launch broke the game from launching and instead of leaving you high and dry to figure out what is going on they actually redirect you to an explanation of what happened and how to get around it.

Really appreciate it and wish more companies were like this!

What can I say? Just pure classic ‘tower defence’ with a twist. Plays like a third person action game, while you frantically run around setting up traps and barriers. This here is just pure simple fun that rewards creativity, while providing enough challenge to keep you on your toes. Well worth the low price as it holds up from over a decade after release.

Such a good classic

Good

Still better than OMD Deathtrap.

A good classic, just mindless fun to grind those orcs to paste.
Got a bit old but still plenty of fun, you get to the end of it in 20 to 40 hours.


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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---{ Author }---
☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

Don't buy as of right now with windows 11 game can't be played

Orcs died.

Good game, bit old but fun 8/10

Orcs Must Die! is a third person shooter wave defense game where you defend against orcs. There are so many variants of orcs and likewise, there are tons of weapons and traps to built against them. I love that there is no one set play to enjoy this game, most traps are viable and you can switch up your gameplay at any time. The levels are well balanced as well and I thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them. The only drawback about this game is that there is no co-op available, but I'm glad that they made multiplayer available in the sequel games. Definitely recommended!

Classic tower defense-esque game with a fun twist. Play it!

He's literally me

"Orcs Must Die!" - Maximilian The War Mage.

Goated Game 10/10 would play again.

Fun, but it is now bugged on PC and I cannot play it

Really really nice.

A pretty fun time for the price. The mechanics are all pretty basic and straightforward, there’s not a ton of depth, but it’s all well executed. The character design is kinda dumb, but it doesn’t matter. Just set up your traps and kill orcs, you’ll be ok.

Nyc game!!

A lot of fun! Sometimes you almost feel bad for the Orcs ... Almost.

Recommend it 110%!

PS: I hate you Armored Ogres! No pity for them!

Second and third are a bit better, but this is still good

Fantastic arcade game. Great to sit down and play with my kids. We love trying to solve the "puzzle" of each level.

The perfect blend of Tower defense and 3D hack and slash. Only downside I would say is that the enemy variety is low and half the traps are hot garbage. But all the spells have their roles and are extremely fun to use, and the sheer variety there is in terms of orc kill keeps the main gameplay loop from getting dull

This game is very simple, defend your crystal from orcs! I know that sounds pretty booring but trust me, this one is good.

First of I wanna talk about the gameplay. The gameplay is actually really addictive and fun, its not hard to understand. First the gameplay seems really simple but after some time it gets harder.
The graphics are nice and cartoony, something that I really like! and the controls are nice and tight.

Is this game worth the full price? Freaking yes! its a total hidden gem!

sure

bit jank but its ok

Loved this game on Xbox. Love it on Steam too!

What a fun tower defense game. I need more tower defense games in my life, multiplayer ones preferably, but this game was well worth the purchase.

Fun and easy to finish

fun. yes please may i have another.

its nice
not so much but it steels good

An absolute classic worth revisiting when on sale. Game still controls and plays well after all these years.

Steam deck performance is flawless at 90fps without any adjustments.

75% of achievements earnt at review playtime - remaining achievements require a second playthrough on nightmare difficulty.

Used to play this banger back in the internet club as a kid in 2012/2013. It was pretty popular back then and pretty much everyone played it back then. Its a fun little game where you have one or more gates from which orcs rush you and you must kill all of them before they reach their objective. Worth it if its like 1-2 dollars.

Short but a fantastic game. Finding optimal ways to defend against orcs always keeps you on your toes and fighting hordes of them never stops being fun. Just a great solo game. Highly recommended.

No keyboard settings.

orcs

Orcs Must Die!
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First in the series, a classic tower defense meets hack and slash.
fun to play, funny story, funny characters, funny world !

enjoy.

(Dose Not Initialize the Program) meaning Game doesn't even work.

Absolute banger of a game. Orcs Must Die! excels in almost every game aspect. The animations, visual style, streak, combo and headshot popups, are very satisfying to see. The soundtrack adds to the adrenaline pumping action, with lots of drums, electric guitar, harpsichord, organ, flutes, choir, etc. playing all kinds of memorable melodies. If slaughtering trillions of orcs using deadly traps, wit, and crossbow in a medieval fantasy setting had a sound, this is what it would sound like.
The game has lots of traps, but one is pretty much essential, namely the barricade, which is used to block paths and force the orcs into a choke point. Really satisfying to hoard all the orcs and slice, burn, skewer, AND launch them all at once! Different traps can be placed on the floor, wall or ceiling.
The game has almost 30 levels in total with the DLC. Lots of different layouts. with stairs, corners, pits, bridges, overpasses, and such.
As you can expect from a tower defense, it has a diverse set of enemies, that require different tactics. from small kobold runners to large ogres, flying enemies, bombers that go for the barricades.

The biggest problem in this game is its low replayability. Once you finish all levels, there's not much reason to go back, and I almost forgot to write a review as a result. Still, looking back at it, I only have fun memories. So OMD is a real no-brainer as far as game purchases are concerned. Buy it, play it, and go kill those orcs!

I realize I used the word "lots" a lot! but that word accurately encapsulates the feeling you get from this game.

Can't wait for the newest entry Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, which will be released in January 2025.

It is so good it will make you want to slap your momma!!!

Fun little 3rd person shooter/button masher.

I just don't get this game. Uninteresting, not fun... probably a standard empty tower defense game...

Super fun game, would be an easy recommend if it wasn't completely broken on Windows 11. The devs haven't shown any interest in fixing this AFAIK.

A timeless classic, its an excellent entry point into the tower defense genre. Its fun, looks great, plays great, sounds great and allows for a lot of freedom in how you tackle each level. My only complaint is that I would generally say that the sequel does everything better. The interaction between characters is more fun there and you also get proper multiplayer there, which is a surprisingly fun addition to what I thought was mainly a single player game. Overall for its price its still absolutely worth it, and if you don't care about multiplayer then this still is worth buying.