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Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense

Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense

Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.

Released Sep 27, 2024 Developer Element Studios Platforms Windows Tower DefenseReal Time TacticsRogue-liteStrategyPvE
View on Steam ↗ $19.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.

86.1%positive794 reviews
Recommended · 13 found this helpful

“As I said in the other tower defense game review, I'm reviewing 2 similar games back to back, the other game being named Nordhold. So I much prefer this tower defense game than Nordhold, because this game give you more freedom, at least in some part of the game modes, so what is…”

— a player, Steam review · 273 hrs played
Recommended · 7 found this helpful

“I haven't enjoyed a TD game this much since Defence Grid the Awakening - & that is high praise. Give it a try.”

— a player, Steam review · 181 hrs played
Recommended · 5 found this helpful

“What I love about this game is that it's Defense Grid 3: similar but more complex. The campaign doesn't strike me as very original (I've played only a quarter of it), but it does its job. Survival is where the game truly shines: There's so many ways to combine defenses; and the…”

— a player, Steam review · 112 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.

563all-time peak
0 100 200 2024 2025 2026 151 avg · Oct 2024

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.

82achievements
2.3%median completion
0.1%rarest: Epic Co-op Survivor: More Island
42.6% of players 39.7% of players 32.0% of players 30.3% of players 26.0% of players 25.4% of players 21.2% of players 14.5% of players 13.9% of players 13.6% of players 12.9% of players 10.7% of players 10.7% of players 9.6% of players 8.8% of players 8.3% of players 8.1% of players 8.0% of players 7.1% of players 7.0% of players 7.0% of players 6.9% of players 6.8% of players 6.3% of players 5.5% of players 5.1% of players 4.8% of players 4.2% of players 4.1% of players 4.1% of players 3.0% of players 3.0% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.7% of players 2.6% of players 2.6% of players 2.5% of players 2.5% of players 2.4% of players 2.4% of players 2.3% of players 2.0% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.6% of players 1.6% of players 1.4% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 0.8% of players 0.8% of players 42.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
42.6%So It Begins — Complete chapter 1 of the campaign
39.7%Sightseeing — Complete an Optional Objective in the Campaign
32.0%Energizer — Generate at least 500 Power in one game
Rarest badges of honor
0.1%Epic Co-op Survivor: More Island — Finish wave 30 of Co-op Survival More Island on Hard difficulty
0.2%Epic Survivor: Two Sides — Finish wave 30 of Survival 'Two Sides' on Hard difficulty
0.2%Co-op Survivor: More Island — Finish wave 30 of Co-op Survival More Island on Normal difficulty

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$19.99current · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$9.99lowest since tracking began2026-08-15
US19.99 USD
EU19.50 EUR
UK16.75 GBP
Australia29.50 AUD
Canada25.99 CAD
Japan2,300 JPY
Brazil53.99 BRL
China79.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$10 China Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$22

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 08-12 08-21 08-30 09-08 09-17 09-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

May 15, 2026
Version 1.2.4 Patch Notes

Fixes Fixed an issue with Multiplayer where returning to the lobby after losing from a Co-op checkpoint wouldn't properly refresh the lobby seed. Fixed an issue where Axons could disappear mid-wave, m

Nov 02, 2025
Version 1.2.3 Patch Notes

Survival All single target Defenses now have +20% damage in Survival and Co-op Survival to help them with scaling a little better into the lategame. Slightly bumped the HP scaling beyond wave 90 of Bl

Jul 29, 2025
Version 1.2.2 Patch Notes

Survival Adjusted a particularly difficult wave a little bit. Fixes Fixed an issue where if you clicked the hotkey for a slot in your loadout on any page beyond your first one, it'd throw an error. Fi

Jul 03, 2025
Version 1.2.1 Patch notes

Survival Adjusted the HP multiplier and some of the waves on Big Islands to make it a little easier. Fixes Fixed an issue where there was a missing reference to the backend of the new Quickplay maps f

Jun 27, 2025
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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.

GenresIndie, Strategy
Player tagsTower Defense · Real Time Tactics · Rogue-lite · Strategy · PvE · RTS · Rogue-like · Online Co-Op · Sci-fi · Tactical · Score Attack · Building (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards
LanguagesEnglish * , German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese *
Achievements82
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 8 Processor: Dual Core 2.6+ GHz Intel or AMD Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 1024 MB VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 8 GB available space