Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense

The best tower defense game out there! :)

Kingdom Rush is a tower-defense game, where you build many different types of towers to kill countless waves of enemies. It took me around 100 hours to get all the achievements but thats considering this is my first tower defense ever.

The game consists into many different campaign stages and, as you progress, you unlock more towers and more types of enemies, each with their own mechanics (some fly, some summon other monsters, some are vulnerable/immune to magic, and many more).

Each stage has 3 modes: story (which you get stars by beating, ranging from 1-3 depending on how many lives you lost), heroic (6-wave version of the stage, much more difficult and you only have 1 life), iron (1-wave stage where you are restricted in which towers you can use). Heroic and iron stages give 1 star each. By getting stars, you can buy upgrades for your towers and spells! Very useful indeed!

Overall, i think the game was very fun to play... until i got to the "extra" stages that are unlocked after you finish the campaign. Those are VERY hard and feel more like a puzzle than a tower defense challenge and, IMO, were not as fun as the campaign stages.

I do recommend this game for anyone interested in tower defenses or who want to try it for the first time!

The campaign is the best. Play the challenges heroic and iron play at your own risk, will be mentally insane trying to complete. The electric artillery broken and fun towers. 8/10

7/10

Kingdom Rush is a very fun tower defense game. It is complex, with numerous upgrade paths for your towers and it feels very strategic vs. RNG based.

Pros:
- Many upgrade paths for towers that bring unique playstyles
- Heroes are a unique spin on traditional tower defense games

Cons:
- Difficulty kind of feels all over the place
- Gets a bit mundane after a while

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Classic game, love it to bits

Great game! Been playing since I was very young.

Great for a quick game when you want to clear your mind from work.

I only perfect good games.

Great little game! It's been out for a while but I just started playing in 2025. Great art style, addicting game mechanics, and a decent amount of gameplay. Just don't pet the sheep too many times :(

The best tower defense game. Period. Alright, I'll admit there's other good entries out there, but this is certainly a stellar example of tower defense done very well.

Levels are challenging but manageable with persistence and creativity. Art is cute. Gameplay and HUD is excellent. Plus there's unexpected interactivity with the levels and some light plot. I could talk more to how this is a fantastic game, but really, the best way to characterize it is one of the best, if not the best, example of tower defense.

Plus I played this back when it was a flash game and I'm glad that I can actually buy the game now and compensate the incredibly talented developers for their hard work on this. They deserve a good payday for making a game this good.

the hardest out of all the kingdom rush games, nostalgic and probably still the best one out of the series in terms of enjoyment but it misses out on a lot of the length, customization and tweaks that are in most of the sequels

yes i played this game when i was around 6 and i still like it now that im older

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This game is well worth the price of admission.

Favorite bit of dialogue...
regular soldiers: "For the KING"
The King: "For ME!!"

First part of the most intensive and storybased tower defense game

Well crafted game, quite enjoyable.

I love the tower defense part, not so much fan of all the action around, which is however REQUIRED so I take that as a suboptimal design.

I wonder which idiot held a design decision to force players to click really fast in some levels. As if that was not enough, you have to click ~ 20 times really fast during few seconds and this "event" repeats like 50 times throughout the level, but you cannot see the cursor clearly... Because the stupid animation trying to say somethng like "click here" is so much bigger, aggressive, contains icon very similar to your cursor but much more visible and bright and therefore steals all the focus... And you have to click 3 times at ~ 3 to 7 different places... What a goddamn ridiculous idea this is to spoil this quiet, nice, slow tower defense game with this fast clicker nonsense.

The game is fun in the first levels and on casual difficulty, but if you want to go harder, the game does operate an incredibly tight error margin. It almost feels like there is only one correct solutions for most levels and you have to use hero very well and use abilities at max efficiency. You will not be able to defeat even lvl3 second tier difficulty without maxxing effectivity of both abilities... Which is kind of extremely HARDCORE.

Will think 20 times before buying another game from Ironhide, as the Iron Marines have very similar issues. Hardcore final bosses, too much micro in the last levels, just not enjoyable. But Iron Marines add another unbelievable silly decision - rather significant amounts of screen shake with no option to turn it off...

Good oldscool TD to kill time. it can be challenging if you would like to achieve 3 stars in each game

One of, if not the best tower defense game oat ig. Love the art style, love the gameplay. Spend 64 hours and don't think I regret the second of it.

Clásico y un pilar del género tower defense. Logra mantenerte atrapado siguiendo una formula sencilla pero efectiva propia del género en si mismo, el juego tiene una variedad compacta pero balanceada de torres, dónde cada una cumple un rol distinto y se acoplan a diferentes necesidades y enemigos dependiendo el nivel. La campaña es la raja, muy entretenida y con una buena progresion, las mini campañas y niveles adicionales, tampoco decepcionan, con una gran curva de dificultad y enemigos y escenarios únicos y cautivantes, que se sienten nuevos y fescos. Eso sí, bien que algunos jefes son sosos y inspidos (el árbol podrido, el hongo qliao, y la araña ctm). Y eso po meo juego :p

An excellent classic tower defense experience and a compelling introduction to the entire series

Not as much fun as Kingdom Rush Origins, Frontiers or Vengeance. Once the primary campaign is completed, various new stages open up but these are just extremely annoying to finish. These later stages are more puzzle then tower defence.

A challenging and rewarding tower defence game.

nice to play the kingdom rush games

Awessome game. The best tower defence i ever known.

Best product on steam. Also best tower defense game of all time. All of the games have lore as well so they are all really fun. Buy them all, its worth it.

A nice start for a great TD franchise.
Everything is well drawed and looks good with a nice diversity of ennemies in every level. Game offers a nice challenge in veteran difficulty. Towers choice and upgrades brings some variety to your defense but you quickly find out than some are way better than other.
It was a second time for me since I played it already on the phone a long time ago, but it's still as good as I remembered !

This was the first video game I ever played, way back on Armor Games. It's still just as good.

second best td game series ever

This series is the best TD series ever!

Game for all times

Awesome game. One of my favorite go-to!

A classic tower defense game, very well balanced and veteran mode can be quite challenging!

Fun and challenging levels. In my oppinion the best Kingdon Rush game in the series.

I first played this here in early 2025. I want to try and convince you why you should as well.

There's a ton of tower defense games on the market, almost all of which are newer than this one. There's even like 4 more Kingdom Rush titles, and there's Bloons, and then even new things like Emberward and Nordhold. There's a lot going on in the tower defense market.

I chose to start here because I wanted to play a Kingdom Rush game, and after all the research I could do on which one to start with, I came up with no real good answer. When I saw the sale recently, I kind of just decided to try it out as a package purchase.

I'm so glad I did, because this game lays the groundwork for all of the other Kingdom Rush games, and actually provides a baseline for nearly all other modern tower defense games. You get to play with towers, control heroes, and go through a colorful campaign with tons of activity and abilities. You are unlocking tech tree upgrades and new heroes. And all the while, you are just having fun. Each mission is super unique, and offers you the chance to try all kinds of different tower strategies.

The main campaign offered me about 4 hours of gameplay time. Once you beat the campaign, a few other solo missions unlock (maybe about 6 of them) that probably will offer you another hour or two. After that, you really only continue if you plan to do heroic modes where you do all the scenarios again in harder and harder difficulties.
I don't actually plan to do that, I think I will likely stop after I finish all the unique scenarios. At that point, I'll move on to the next game in the series, Kingdom Rush Frontiers. But I'm really glad I played this because it's a view into how the whole system was designed and built up from the beginning, and I had a blast for the 4 hours I played through the campaign. Additionally, I feel like I will have a leg up when starting out in Frontiers because I understand how the system functions... how towers typically work together and create synergies, and how specific enemy types can be problematic. And that's not difficult to believe, because this game is where it all started.

Was it worth it for 5 or 6 hours total of content? I mean.... with the sale and the package deal, I think I got this for somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 to $3. You make the call, but to me it was a steal. Not to mention that part of the reason why sometimes people don't want to start with older games is that they don't want to sink hours into older titles that use less modern tech. But in this case, it's barely an investment. I think this is a great way to break into the tower defense game experience.

If you are planning to start a Kingdom Rush experience for yourself, I heartily recommend starting here. It is a great game, and it only gets better from this point.

A great tower defense game!

I love this game, and it works perfectly on Linux

Jee, this game turned out to be hard

One of the best classic tower defense games

I'm a big fan of yours, but the difficulty in the subsequent side levels (especially the Hell Portal) is too high, can you reduce the intensity of the easy difficulty, if you see it and are willing to update it, then I will buy the latest DLC of your five generations

Incredibly fun and there are now mods that allows for bigger and more ambitious challenges courtesy of the modding community! Should give this a try after playing through the vanilla version!

Really good game, but falls flat when compared to it's sequels.

great game, great replayability

a challenge for strategies , a timeless classic , also have pretty rich content if you challenge yourself for all 3-stars , hero and iron mode

This game makes me feel like I'm 10 years younger and twice as dumb

A great game! If you like tower defense, you'll love this game!

Great game!
Fun strategy game, the main storyline is a bit on the easy side but the additonal content and the heroic and iron (basically a bonus round on a previous stage you 3 starred.).
One of my favorite things this game has is that you can lose a life or two and still get three stars it's a really big pet peeve of mine is missing one enemy and redoing the entire stage, it's a small thing and I really like it,

Kingdom Rush is a fantastic tower defense game that starts off simple but quickly evolves into a surprisingly deep and strategic experience. With just four base towers, you wouldn’t expect much variety, but their upgrades and evolutions open up a wide range of tactics. What seems like a straightforward game at first soon becomes a fun brain teaser, especially on the tougher levels.

The addition of heroes adds another layer of strategy, making each battle feel more dynamic and engaging. Their unique abilities help turn the tide in critical moments, making gameplay even more satisfying. Whether you’re a casual player looking to pass the time or a strategy fan craving a challenge, Kingdom Rush is an absolute must-play in the tower defense genre.

A simple to understand tower defense game. Simple yet fun and exciting!

This was fun. Hard enough to be challenging and fun enough to keep playing. Well worth the money.