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Crystal Guardians TD

Crystal Guardians TD

Crystal Guardians is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight of waves and defend the world crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your strategy. In an ever expanding map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemies.

Released Mar 15, 2024 Developer Green Pine Studios Platforms Windows Tower DefenseRogue-liteRogue-likeStrategy3D
View on Steam ↗ $13.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

87.9%positive116 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Excellent tower defense game, love this!”

— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2025-07 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

85all-time peak
0 25 50 2025 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 37 avg · Mar 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.

35achievements
24.6%median completion
0.6%rarest: 5000+ white tiers
88.0% of players 85.8% of players 85.6% of players 78.9% of players 77.7% of players 68.3% of players 65.7% of players 63.3% of players 57.5% of players 52.9% of players 49.8% of players 40.2% of players 38.1% of players 37.4% of players 31.6% of players 30.6% of players 24.8% of players 24.6% of players 21.1% of players 18.2% of players 13.3% of players 12.9% of players 12.8% of players 10.5% of players 9.3% of players 7.3% of players 7.0% of players 6.6% of players 6.6% of players 3.6% of players 3.2% of players 3.1% of players 1.8% of players 1.0% of players 0.6% of players 88.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
88.0%Defeat Zombie horde — Defeat the zombie horde in wave 10
85.8%Kill 1000 enemies — Kill a total of 1000 enemies
85.6%Earn 10000 gold — Earn a total of 10000 gold
Rarest badges of honor
0.6%5000+ white tiers — Roll 5000+ white tier items
1.0%All modifiers run — Beat hardmode with all run modifiers turned on
1.8%500+ red tiers — Roll 500+ red tier items

Latest official news

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

Oct 15, 2025
Unity security patch

Needed to update the game to fix a security flaw found by Unity recently. Working hard on the upcoming update! Tim

Aug 19, 2024
Small update 0.5.4

List of changes: Shards are now also given beyond wave 100 (to give to the friendly wizard) You can now re-arrange items in inventory by dragging When a recipe is active in the tower, all the inventor

Aug 08, 2024
Update 0.5.3

Fixes and changes for update 0.5.3 - The friendly wizard now will keep on providing you items for shards after wave 100! - The critical strike damage of Head hunter now works with lightning tower scal

Aug 06, 2024
Small patch 0.5.2

Thanks for all the bug reports on both the discord and the steam forums! Fixes and changes Fixed some item unlock conditions not working properly (for example the 10 lightning towers condition) Correc

Aug 03, 2024
Small patch (still called 0.5.1 by accident)

Some quick fixes Made the endless scaling scale more exponential Made some item text descriptions more clear Golden Lootbag unlock condition should work now

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresCasual, Strategy, Early Access
Player tagsTower Defense · Rogue-lite · Rogue-like · Strategy · 3D · Tactical · Casual · Procedural Generation · Voxel · Action · Perma Death · Isometric (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
Achievements35
Official sitehttps://crystal-guardians-game.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: Quad Core I5 or AMD equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 670 or AMD equivalent Storage: 600 MB available space