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D.O.T. Defence

D.O.T. Defence

Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map. Challenge yourself in the single-player campaign following the Chroma Wars, survive relentless waves in solo defense, or battle it out in local matches against friends and AI bots. Victory comes with the last HQ standing!

Released Jun 11, 2026 Developer Rattleaxe Games Publisher Rattleaxe Games, Gamersky Games Platforms Windows · Linux Early AccessLocal Co-OpSingleplayerAction RTSTower Defense
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-05-19)

What players say

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

85.6%positive222 reviews
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Dude what the ♥♥♥♥ this is so chill and fun, if you have a controller you have to give this a shot”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Great game that at first makes you think its quite shallow but has a large campaign and quite a bit of depth.”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“add online play please”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

156all-time peak
0 25 50 2026 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 36 avg · Jun 2026

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.

25achievements
2.0%median completion
0.1%rarest: Sicko
25.2% of players 16.1% of players 14.5% of players 8.5% of players 5.9% of players 5.6% of players 5.3% of players 3.7% of players 2.8% of players 2.3% of players 2.3% of players 2.2% of players 2.0% of players 1.8% of players 1.4% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.1% of players 25.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
25.2%Button Masher — Use 10 or more Commander Powers in a game.
16.1%Zomdamacy — Reach max size with a Rotball.
14.5%End of the World — Finish the UCF campaign.
Rarest badges of honor
0.1%Sicko — Beat every campaign mission on Very Hard.
0.4%Family Conflict — Play a FFA with all Invaders.
0.5%God of War — Have over 20 artillery structures at the start of a wave.

Latest official news

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

Sep 18, 2026
Dev Update: Ascendancy Preview 1

Hello Commanders! Today we'd like to show you our WIP next faction, the Ascendancy . They are the product of a single rat who, through the power of Chroma, gains evolved intelligence and decides to as

Jul 25, 2026
New Commanders + Sneak Peek

Hello Commanders! Thanks for all the support. Remember, if you're enjoying, please leave a nice review, it both helps and warms our hearts. We've also added a few new Commanders and passives for you a

Jun 19, 2026
Tuning + Some Fixes

- Increased the strength of super units in campaign missions that feature them, they're supposed to feel strong and recent changes had weakened them for the other modes, so bringing them in line with

Jun 18, 2026
Adding Launch Options

Added launch options for DirectX 12 and Vulkan, as some people have reported crashes with both. Hopefully this gives everybody a launch option that works.

Jun 16, 2026
Update June 15

- Turned on multi threaded rendering to improve performance. This may impact stability, please let us know if any crashes show up after this patch - Added a randomize all option for player loadout for

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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.

GenresStrategy
Player tagsEarly Access · Local Co-Op · Singleplayer · Action RTS · Tower Defense · Auto Battler · Real Time Tactics · Wargame · PvE · PvP · RTS · 2D (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements
LanguagesEnglish * , French * , Simplified Chinese * , Japanese * , Korean * , Traditional Chinese * , Russian * , Spanish - Spain * , Spanish - Latin America * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Polish * , Germa…
ControllerFull support
Achievements25
Official sitehttps://rattleaxegames.ca/d-o-t-defence
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 900 MB available space