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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-24 01:23 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
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