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Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“I enjoyed it for the most part, took about 6 hours to complete the campaign, but that included plenty of restarts. The balancing and pacing is a little strange, and after restarting some maps several times, I found that there would be less towers, or maybe just fewer massive…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“fun little tank action game that combines tower (HQ) defense and city building elements. build stuff that protects your base or buffs your tank, then take out the enemy before they get you. perk choices between levels and a nice little compact campaign. bonus challenges to dip…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“Limit on building make it less enjoyable for old players.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 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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Update Notes Sept 22nd
Reclaimators rejoice, some improvements! 5-20x performance improvements when facing large waves of Noise. Skirmish: Add random option for biome. Fixed houses sometimes not connecting their path to oth
Tank Customization
Hey Reclaimators! We have a fun, oft-requested update for you today; tank customization. Available via the main menu, you're now able to select from six different body types for your turret and pick a
Patch Notes July 16th
Added the ability to cancel picking a building and return to it later. Fixed restoring the island while picking a building could result in a soft lock. Fixed losing a tank while placing a building cou
Mini Missions Update
We've added a completely new way to play Existential Treads, called Mini Missions. These are a set of 9 challenges which each shake up the way the base game works. We've had a blast inventing and play
Update Notes for May 27
Fixed very embarrassing bug where Sniper Tower was only doing 1x instead of 5x damage. Sorry!! Decreased Sniper Tower cooldown time. Made defense towers line of sight work through Sprawl buildings. Fi
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Action · Tower Defense · City Builder · Arcade · Exploration · Top-Down Shooter · 3D · Base Building · Colorful · Stylized · Top-Down (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Color Alternatives · Custom Volume Controls · Playable without Timed Input · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support |
| Languages | English * , Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 22 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Win 10 64 bit Processor: 2.4GHZ Dual Core Processor Or Higher Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, Radeon R9 270 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible