Dungeon Defenders

Dungeon Defenders, developed by Trendy Entertainment (now Chromatic Games), is a charming, chaotic blend of action RPG and tower defense that debuted back in 2010—and it still has a loyal following for good reason. Whether you’re diving in solo or teaming up with friends, the game offers a deeply satisfying gameplay loop built around strategy, progression, and good ol’ hack-and-slash fun.

Gameplay
At its core, Dungeon Defenders is all about defending Eternia Crystals from waves of enemies by building traps, towers, and defenses—all while controlling a customizable hero in real-time combat. You can choose from different character classes like the Apprentice (mage), Squire (knight), Huntress (ranged attacker), and Monk (support), each offering unique defensive structures and playstyles.

What sets Dungeon Defenders apart is how it marries traditional tower defense elements with RPG mechanics. You level up, assign stat points, equip loot, and build synergy between your hero and your towers. Planning your build between waves is as important as your skill in the heat of combat.

Visuals & Sound
While the graphics aren’t cutting-edge by today’s standards, the game’s vibrant, cartoonish art style still looks good and lends itself well to the lighthearted yet frantic tone. The sound design is solid, with catchy music and satisfying effects for every slash, explosion, and enemy death.

Multiplayer Mayhem
Dungeon Defenders shines brightest in co-op mode. With up to four players, teamwork becomes essential, and the chaos of managing both the battlefield and your hero is a blast. Communication and strategy make for some truly epic moments, especially in higher difficulty modes.

Replayability & Depth
With tons of loot, pets, gear upgrades, and maps, the game offers a deep sense of progression and reason to come back. Higher difficulties introduce new enemy types and force creative rethinking of strategy. Plus, mods and community events have kept the experience alive well beyond its original release window.

Downsides?
The UI can be a bit clunky, especially for newer players. It also has a steep learning curve if you're aiming to master the higher-tier content. And while solo play is possible, the game is noticeably better with friends.

This game is a blast with friends. It's a surefire way to have an excellent weekend if everyone wants to play something co-op.

THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIM I PLAYED IT ON THE 360 AND NOW THE PC AND ITS STILL A BANGER HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS GAME IS THE GOAT OF ALL GOATS

It is like a breath of fresh air and a dream come true; a nostalgic game with continuous updates and still stays fun.

Great game for all kinds of players! Great mix of defense strategy and just outright slashing monsters!!

This game has a special spot in my heart, From a young age like 10-11 i have been in love with this game, the memories and fun to be had in this game is unmatched :) give it a shot i promise you it wont miss :)

Excellent game with a mix of medieval RPG and tower defense elements. I remember playing it on the XBOX 360 back when it came out. Love this game, especially fun in COOP but the single player is stellar too! Graphics hold up very well and its overall very well optimized considering all of the units on screen at one time. Holds up very well and is still supported by the developers. Great game!

Very good game. Lots of different styles and methods to play with.

Even after hundreds of hours and 14 years this game is still so much fun to play

Was good, turned to into a money hungry dlc game, ignore them as they have ignored their sequels.

This is one of the first games i've ever played and its definitely a core memory for me any time I pick this game up again. Lots of good memories and will never forget this legend of a game. I've owned this game since the very early days of its release when there wasn't a whole lot going on and i've watched it grow into this amazing beautiful piece of artwork.

من امتع العاب الدفاع عن الابراج الجماعية الي جربتها انصح بها بشدة
احبها بشكل مجنون ومستعد اضيع فيها 100 ساعة بدون ندم
واحب اذكر ان تصميم المراحل فيها جذاب عجبني جدا والرسوميات على وقت اللعبة جميل
والشخصيات جيدة ودفاعاتها مميزة
ارى انها تستحق سعرها بكل مصداقية

Would be cool if you cared about more than selling the same game 3x. I get that this is the best version of the game, Thats only because you dropped the ball on the newer two. The control scheme, graphics and camera on this version are horrendous, or id just chalk the next two versions up as a loss. Stop punishing us for trying to support you and update and give DLCS to Awakened ffs. terrible devs

This game is absolute perfection. I have thousands of hours on the XBOX 360 version of this game, and for around 4 years ago I switched to the steam version of this game, but I have been able to play it far less than I would've hoped. For 4 years I have been desperately trying to find a game that at all matches or even resembles a fraction of this game.

Pros-
I was given a lifetime to design a game, it would turn out like this one.
It is the best tower defense game I have ever played.
The replayability of this game is virtually endless, with no point in the game where you cannot progress in some way.
This game has the best progression I have ever seen, with ever wave of every map being a heartbreakingly challenging experience while also pumping your adrenaline and being very possible to beat.
You do not get bored playing this game.
The armor, pet, and weapon system is incredible.
You always have things to learn.

Cons-
It will ruin your enjoyment on all other tower defense games.

This game was a cornerstone of my childhood, and it will always have a special place in my heart. I miss the Xbox 360 days. Absolutely worth the purchase, I never knew it was on PC too.

valentine is bad design, bad game, old game, stop play.

this game is so cool i love hack and slashing through giant waves of mobs with the barbarian and blowing up all the goblins with the hermits seeb bomb towers

First and only good game in the Dungeon Defenders franchise. 10/10

fun td game from my childhood, cant really find the same gameplay anywhere else

They put paid DLC in where you can play as donald trump and elon musk. Nuclear-grade cringe. Hitler and Jeffrey Epstein DLC coming soon at this rate.

Fun game aside from that.

For some reason I have audio during the start up of dungeon defenders and during cut scenes but otherwise I have no audio. My sound is turned on and enabled in game with the audio sliders all the way up. I tried verifying game files and uninstalling but it didn’t work. This game is an absolute gem, and its terrible that I can't here a thing. If your tryna revisit thou id still choose this over the other ones. AGAIN tho.... no sound.

Best tower defense game with first person shooter aspects that I know of. Build metal towers and kill goblins? orcs? as an archer, monk, knight, wizard etc. Lots of fun, especially in local multiplayer (in my opinion this game isn't great with randoms online) Most of my play time was back on PS3. I recently downloaded it on steam to see if it would work with steam deck as I feel it's a great couch split screen game.

STEAM DECK functionality,
despite saying 'unsupported' I decided to give it a chance.
To get it to boot you need to go into the config -> properties -> general -> launch options. In the 'enter modification to launch options' put in -nolauncher

that will let it boot. The only other issue you'll run into are the times a keyboard would be needed. If playing from a controller, there isn't a convenient way to do the keyboard things such as naming items (when they are maxed) or naming a new character. The way I decided to side step these issues is to pick the randomly generated name I like the most out of the game options and I simply don't rename items. You could pick up the steam deck itself and use it's on screen keyboard option or probably connect a keyboard to your steam deck if you really wanted to.

The summoner (if you get the DLC to have him) is definitely a bit tricky to play with using a controller but to my surprise everything about him works. One odd thing about him if you are playing local spit screen is he needs to be player 1 in order to use his overlord mode. Odd to me as it doesn't affect the other local player's screen when its turned on.

almoist as fun as bloaloons tower defesne 69

Seen DD1 was still getting updated on pc, Decided buy it and see how its changed since 360 days. I've now been playing for like 2 months straight...Slight addiction maybe... I'm still learning new stuff daily from the community. Recommended

I started playing this game years ago on the xbox 360. One of my favorite games of all time and the best tower defence game of all time. Trendy is still releasing updates and characters to this game. Fun with friends or solo. 10/10 Recommend this game.

Ok it’s hard to start this review. As a game dungeon defenders is well made great graphics especially as it’s a 16 old ish game. Has a very simple design and objective witch is to protect the crystal.
As of right now its my second most played game on steam and I have at no point had disinterest in playing.

Highly recommend
For people who like td games eg btd6.

I’ll just say Mack shore to play on online ranked or you don’t get achievements.
As it’s probably a common mistake.
One down side it’s has got a lot of content within dlc so you will probably end up paying extra if you get into the game.

Pretty biased here, but I love this game. Bought back when TrendyNet was company that owned the game and it's my most played game. Awesome local or online co-op. Now there's plenty of different characters to choose from. Game still looks great for it's age. Gets very difficult as you progress levels of difficulty. Definitely worth the cost of the game to me.

Mouse+Keyboard are not user friendly, have to use controller for most of it and you still don't get all keybindings so you still have to use the keyboard for some things, but luckily not during combat. Character customization is pretty boring, you change colors or get skins. Characters only get a few towers to work with, but you can swap characters during build phase.

this game is so nostalgic for me. me and my siblings used to play it on the xbox 360. I have been playing it for as long as I could hold a controller and I would recommend to literally everyone. the only thing I don't really care much for is that when you play on pc you can't connect a ps4 controller, but I've learned how to play on the keyboard. analyze, adapt, overcome lol. I would hive this game a 10/10.

It's just old school fun.

What makes it unique these days is that I can stream it from my 4070 to a mini on my 4K downstairs and me, and my 3 sons, play co-op on the same screen.

There are so few games that allow this in-situ team play rather than having to sync with a bunch of people online. Unfortunately, many games stopped doing this (Orcs must Die...) and few go over the 2 player split ala Lego games.

This game ranks among the few, such as TF2, than have lasted DECADES and are still fun and playable.

God tier game for its era and how well it aged, boosted by nostalgia!

Ive been playing this game for years, starting with the xbox 360, now on PC with all the DLC and everything, all I can say is if you see this on sale, and you see this comment.. Get the game..

I’ve been playing this game since 2013, still my favorite of all time. Best developers and community there is. Still updated 14 years later. 10/10 can’t recommend enough!!

played when i was a kid, played when i was an adult. still good

This game has one of the niche, yet dedicated player communities of all time. It is an absolute gem, and the content you displayed in this video only scratches the surface of the content currently in-game. This game easily has dozens, if not hundreds of hours of gameplay to enjoy, and I cannot recommend it enough for anyone who enjoys RPGs or Tower Defense games. The community really keeps the game pushing forward, and I love it for that. Thanks to the devs and community for hundreds of happy memories, and happy defending to anyone joining the game or coming back to re-experience this game in its current state!

The one and only Dungeon Defenders - 10/10
This is a great mix of Hero Defence and Tower Defence, all in one game.
I really recommend this to everyone that wants to try something new with their friends, as this is a team based game. You can play solo too, or with randoms online, but I really recommend playing with friends (4 players).

This is the only DD game I enjoyed, I did not enjoy DD 2 or any of the other DD games, so I say stay with this one. Also, don't play redux (beta), stay with Vanilla (the original game) as it gets new DLC updates from time to time.

Really enjoyed the game when it came out years ago. And just recently I have seen they are adding new content to the game again? That in itself is awesome. So now in 2025 I am getting back into the game I can say its still fantastic solo, how I normally play, or even better with friends. able to couch co op with up to 4 people too! Lots of ways to build your classes, the maps and difficulty settings give a good challenge if you want one. Highly recommend. Show some love for the game so more comes out for it! I continue to gift this game to friends and they have all enjoyed. Might be an older game, but cant beat the classics!

I like to play this game with my kids. its a good family game, its low stakes co-op tower defense and we all like that.

Easily in my top 5 favorite games of all time still to this day. The artwork is a masterpiece that the sequels couldnt compete with. try to catch it on sale and you can get all the dlc for a good price too! I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a new game to suck them in or just to kill some time. There are still weapons i havent been able to get pets i havent acquired and missions i havent done.

100% Recommend this game to everyone! Yes its a old game, made in 2010-11 but its such a fun and amazing game to play! I played it on xbox 360 when i was little and coming back to this game has just been amazing and has brought back a lot of nostalgia! Don't have to worry about there not being enough content cause their is a whole lot of it! So 100% you are getting your money's worth plus more! Many Different characters to choose from, Skins and colours customizations, Many Different ways to play! Wanna play co-op? You can definitely do so split screen and online together up to 3 other players! It Also has such a good story to it and with the added dlcs it even adds more! Then with Dungeon Defenders 2, Awakened and Going Rogue plus maybe even future releases adds so much content to the series which is such a good series to play! So i Highly recommending getting and playing Dungeon Defenders! With Dungeon Defenders 1 there is 118 achievements to collect (you have to play online not local so if you wanna just play by yourself create a private match) which is a grind to collect them all so good luck!!! Though if you just wanna speed though the campaign and the added dlcs recommend just playing on easy! Note if you wanna level up fast recommend searching for a online session with other players in the custom games area! Overall the graphics to the game are great, no bugs or glitches, gameplay is great, story is also really great, the boss battles are hard but a lot of fun, and single player or multiplayer game is playable and a lot of fun! so it's a 10 out of 10!

its a fun game, ive been playing this game since it came out.

p2w they have nice people but asshole who do not care if you just started or do not want to help you from what i seen more assholes over people wants to help

Hands down THE BEST game of ALL TIME! timeless game :D

Great game. Amazing maps, funny easter eggs, fun characters. One of the best games and the price is great as well.

good game but I wish I could download an older patch before the new community devlopment team took over

Still receives updates after 10 years, great tower defence game

Do you enjoy Tower Defense style games?
Do you think you would enjoy shooting or meleeing enemies along with your Defenses doing their thing?

Then this is a good game for it.

The free DLC stuff is good enough to make the game generally worth it's cost I'd say. Usually the DLC go on sale for any of the other things (it's how I got all the base Heroes available, no cosmetics that I'm aware of) so just wait a little bit and they'll often be half or more off.

Overall the variety to each Hero makes it a very different experience and equipment will be locked by class (shows you which heroes can use it when you hover over) and Defenses are generally similar enough to get the idea but different enough to not do everything the same. One Defense throws fireballs while another hero's same slot Defense slows enemies down. Both are useful when used with some strategy.

The maps are all different, experiment with where you can and can't place towers, elevation problems for one could be a major advantage for another, and you'll find most of the equipment you'll use while leveling up. You also have what seems to be an infinite Item Box to store things just use "Lock Item" on stuff you want to keep so it doesn't get sold by accident when you hit "Sell All". Otherwise you can just one by one and "Sell to Bank" each item but locked items cannot be sold even then.

It has a slight learning curve given the 3D of it but it's not horrible. There are choke-points where enemies will funnel into that you can usually prioritize. After a certain point you're facing more and more enemies that are stronger and stronger and you can hit a brick wall of difficulty that requires leveling things up (including using stored mana to increase item levels for really good items you find and use for long periods of time) to tackle properly. I know I've had my fair share of getting beat to know sometimes what you thought would work doesn't.

The graphics are obviously dated by 2025 standards but it's a really old game. The gameplay is still pretty good, you just have to understand that some weapons are better at some things than others like some staffs shooting at a snail's pace compared to others that are full machine gun firing.

But I like the game, I know it was successful enough they made more games and more DLC so others liked it too, might be worth a trip down memory road or a dive into some older games that still hold up pretty well.

There's a ton of content.

It's a nice mix between tower defense and RPG action. The load of content means it can get a little confusing at times; but you will 100% get your time / moneys worth if you enjoy the game. Good for multiplayer too!

used to play from my 360, on steam the controls are a bit funky at first but once you get used to them its still as good as 360 days, iv been seeing this game get worked on recently and i hope they add cross play and a feature to let you change your key binds. i HIGHLY recommend this, its best with friends but not bad when solo.
if you've played dungeon defenders 2 and you haven't played the first one, you need to, the second game does not compare to the first game. something i hope the creators of dungeon defenders notices is that the simple graphics are better than the complicated graphics in 2. i hope this game gains popularity again, iv had quite a lot of fun playing it recently

A game I use to play as a kid that is still goated <3 So much fun with friends!

Dungeon Defenders is a fantastic blend of tower defense and action RPG, delivering addictive gameplay, deep customization, and fun co-op mechanics. Whether you're strategizing with friends or diving into solo play, the game offers an engaging mix of planning, combat, and loot-driven progression that keeps you coming back for more.

The gameplay is its biggest strength. Combining tower defense mechanics with real-time combat, Dungeon Defenders allows players to build elaborate defenses while actively fighting off waves of enemies with unique abilities and weapons. Each of the four main classes—Squire, Huntress, Apprentice, and Monk—has distinct strengths, towers, and playstyles, offering tons of variety and strategic depth.

The progression system is highly rewarding. Leveling up your hero, upgrading towers, collecting powerful loot, and fine-tuning your build creates an addictive gameplay loop. The RPG elements—such as stat customization, equipment upgrades, and pet companions—add another layer of depth, making each hero feel truly personalized.

The co-op experience is where the game truly shines. Whether playing with friends or random players online, team coordination and strategy play a huge role in success. Defending against massive enemy waves while working together to optimize defenses and handle tougher foes makes for endless replayability.

Visually, the game’s cartoony art style has aged well, with colorful environments and charming character designs that give it a lighthearted but engaging atmosphere. The soundtrack and effects complement the gameplay well, adding to the intensity of battle.

While the difficulty curve can be steep, especially in later levels and harder difficulties, it only adds to the sense of accomplishment when you finally overcome a tough challenge.

If you enjoy tower defense, action RPGs, and co-op multiplayer, Dungeon Defenders is an absolute must-play. It offers hours of addictive fun, whether you're optimizing builds, farming loot, or just enjoying chaotic battles with friends.

Rating: 9/10 – A fantastic mix of tower defense and action RPG mechanics with deep strategy and endless replayability.