Defense Grid: The Awakening
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.
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Developer: Hidden Path Entertainment Publisher: Hidden Path Entertainment
Genre: Indie, Strategy
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain
Tags: Tower Defense (494), Strategy (259), Sci-fi (173), Singleplayer (170), Indie (166), Aliens (75), Futuristic (51), Addictive (34), Touch-Friendly (30), Replay Value (25), Adventure (15), Action (10), Controller (8), RTS (6)
Category: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Remote Play on TV, Family Sharing
Release date: Dec 8, 2008
Price: $9.99
Score rank: 99% Userscore: 96% Old userscore: 96% Metascore: 81%
Owners: 500,000 .. 1,000,000
Ownership data: 2026-11-10 (UTC) — out of date
Followers: 8,482
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 68
YouTube stats: 0 new videos uploaded yesterday.
Playtime total: 05:57 (average) 02:13 (median)
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