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Defender Bros
Prepare your defenses during the day and survive until dawn. Defender Bros is a Top-Down Tower Defense Roguelike where you play as a Soldier defending your Base. Pick between multiple abilities as you level up to increase you power, then after each run buy perks and get stronger
What players say
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“This game is a blast to play, but there is a bug with prestige on weapons that causes them to reduce in damage or health. It doesn't seem to apply to the pistol, but many other things just dont work correctly. I guess for now I gotta give this a negative review, but I really…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2024-10 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Latest official news
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Couch Co-op Update
Couch Co-Op Update Hey everyone! Today I'm excited to launch the Couch Co-Op update. This adds an entirely new way to play, with local multiplayer for up to 4 players on a single screen. How to play S
UPDATE 0.5.5 - Christmas Update and Prestige Fixes
Hello defenders! The Christmas Update is back! Fixed issue where hoverboard would make you move too fast Fixed issue where pistol would not have the accurate star level on prestige Fixed issue of nara
UPDATE 0.5.1 - Prestige Update Hotfix
Bugfixes: Fixed issue where plasma tower was spawning fireballs if you collect flame bullets perk Fixed issue where Spintrap could completely stop enemies. Now the slowdown is capped and the slowdown
UPDATE 0.5 - The Prestige Update
The Problem Before this update, all damage and health calculations followed a fixed, linear pattern. For example, your pistol’s progression looked something like this: 50 → 100 → 150 → 200 … (until a
UPDATE 0.45 - Halloween Event
Happy Halloween Defenders! During this spooky season, Defender Bros will feature a limited time event that adds new unlockable skins, map changes and more. Start off the event by playing through the G
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Strategy · Tower Defense · Tactical · Funny · Military · Top-Down · PvE · Multiplayer · Singleplayer · Rogue-like · Action Roguelike · Aliens (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Full controller support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , Portuguese - Brazil * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian * |
| Controller | Full support |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB Storage: 10 GB available space