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Artisan TD
Artisan TD is a puzzle-oriented Tower Defense game where you must survive by building mazes.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
51 of the 74 reviews raise this.
“Solid basic TD. This is a first impression review. Generally I enjoy TD's, so when this was in the monthly Humble bundle, might as well check it out!! It starts very basic, you can build walls, and on top of those you…”
“This game, for me, is the pinnacle of tower defense. At least of its puzzle side. Mechanics are clear, the challenge is punishing, and you can always retry from any wave of a given level. Choices are extremely…”
18 of the 74 reviews raise this.
“There's a right way to finish each level and a wrong way. Resources are so limited that you're forced to find the one optimal solution instead of experimenting and having fun with your own approach. It looks nice, but I…”
“I have very mixed feelings about this game. On one hand, it has beautiful graphics, very pleasant music (reminiscent of the compositions from Fable), a good variety of towers and monsters and an almost perfect save…”
“Poorly balanced. I love TD games, but this one misses the mark. This one is too strict, it feels like you have to have a very specific and optimal layout right from the get go, so much so it strips the fun out of it.…”
16 of the 74 reviews raise this.
“Solid basic TD. This is a first impression review. Generally I enjoy TD's, so when this was in the monthly Humble bundle, might as well check it out!! It starts very basic, you can build walls, and on top of those you…”
“This game, for me, is the pinnacle of tower defense. At least of its puzzle side. Mechanics are clear, the challenge is punishing, and you can always retry from any wave of a given level. Choices are extremely…”
“I have very mixed feelings about this game. On one hand, it has beautiful graphics, very pleasant music (reminiscent of the compositions from Fable), a good variety of towers and monsters and an almost perfect save…”
7 of the 74 reviews raise this.
“Solid basic TD. This is a first impression review. Generally I enjoy TD's, so when this was in the monthly Humble bundle, might as well check it out!! It starts very basic, you can build walls, and on top of those you…”
“This game, for me, is the pinnacle of tower defense. At least of its puzzle side. Mechanics are clear, the challenge is punishing, and you can always retry from any wave of a given level. Choices are extremely…”
“Nicely made TD game with traditional progression. (levels - stars) Many modes and developers seem to keep dropping updates lately. Highly rec. to any TD game collector!”
6 of the 74 reviews raise this.
“I have very mixed feelings about this game. On one hand, it has beautiful graphics, very pleasant music (reminiscent of the compositions from Fable), a good variety of towers and monsters and an almost perfect save…”
“Surprisingly polished and tight Tower Defense (on max difficulty). Easy to get into and doesn't get stale when each map has its own design and focus without repeating too much. Maybe could use more enemy variety.”
“It's a good one. Decent supply of towers, decent supply of maps. Special enemies and map effects to consider when building a maze. Shiny stickers for perfect clears. Pushing for the shiny victory tends to incentivize…”
16 of the 74 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“There's a right way to finish each level and a wrong way. Resources are so limited that you're forced to find the one optimal solution instead of experimenting and having fun with your own approach. It looks nice, but I…”
“4.5/10 minimalist on the tower side instead of giving you gold at the end of a wave you only get gold well you kill things. this game is all about upgrading things as soon as you possibly can, even more so on the last…”
“Pretty mid, while the concept of puzzle+td sounds interesting, the execution for the game turns out to be quite rigid, making so theres a bunch of trial and error. Also made my GPU go at 99%”
13 of the 74 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“There's a right way to finish each level and a wrong way. Resources are so limited that you're forced to find the one optimal solution instead of experimenting and having fun with your own approach. It looks nice, but I…”
“4.5/10 minimalist on the tower side instead of giving you gold at the end of a wave you only get gold well you kill things. this game is all about upgrading things as soon as you possibly can, even more so on the last…”
“Pretty mid, while the concept of puzzle+td sounds interesting, the execution for the game turns out to be quite rigid, making so theres a bunch of trial and error. Also made my GPU go at 99%”
4 of the 74 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“There's a right way to finish each level and a wrong way. Resources are so limited that you're forced to find the one optimal solution instead of experimenting and having fun with your own approach. It looks nice, but I…”
“The main thing this game has going for it: - Visuals - Seemingly no game breaking bugs Other than that, its a slower paced and pretty boring TD. Just the most basic towers that you see in nearly every other TD game,…”
“Good graphics, easy to pick back up gameplay, getting the nightmare stages with no hits and 3 stars requires a lot of trials and errors. The more you want to complete in this game, the more repetitive it gets sadly, so…”
4 of the 74 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“4.5/10 minimalist on the tower side instead of giving you gold at the end of a wave you only get gold well you kill things. this game is all about upgrading things as soon as you possibly can, even more so on the last…”
“Poorly balanced. I love TD games, but this one misses the mark. This one is too strict, it feels like you have to have a very specific and optimal layout right from the get go, so much so it strips the fun out of it.…”
“In short it's semi-pretty and simple, both in a positive and negative way, decent but lacking anything unique. Generic Tower Defense game with cutesy mini fantasy style. Simple, maps being just puzzles to solve with the…”
3 of the 74 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I have very mixed feelings about this game. On one hand, it has beautiful graphics, very pleasant music (reminiscent of the compositions from Fable), a good variety of towers and monsters and an almost perfect save…”
“saves are erased for seemly no reason. Interesting ideas but boring overall even withholding the wasting my time.”
Counted across 74 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 86.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“I have played the game only on nightmare mode with full stars and perfect HP. I don't really understand the bad reviews, claiming there are only one exact way on winning every map. This is absolutely wrong, and after checking, most of these reviews come from people that have…”
— a player, Steam review · 65 hrs played“At first I was a little confused, game seemed really hard and as some reviews mention it's like a puzzle game a lot of the time. What many fail to mention is that you easily can backtrack to a earlier wave and do not have to start over, let's say you realise on wave 8 that you…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“More of a puzzle game than a strict TD. You can easily brick your perfect run because you didn't produce the perfect maze and placed the towers in the most optimal position. Not impossible by any means, but the rigidity strips the fun out of it for me. If you're more into trying…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Tower Defense · Strategy · Difficult · Puzzle · Building · Tactical · Real Time Tactics · Fantasy · Singleplayer · Stylized · 3D · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input |
| Languages | English * , French * , German * , Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese * , Spanish - Spain * , Korean * , Japanese * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Russian * , Italian * , Polish * , Turkish * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 41 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 64 Bit Processor: Intel Core i5-6600, 3.3 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X, 3.5 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 750 Ti / Radeon R7 360 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space Additional Notes: 16:9 recommended