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Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin
Rise above the Mirk and protect your ship from dangers unknown in the latest entry in the classic Defender’s Quest tower defense series!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-15.
“Its not as good as the first one but it gets the TD itch scratched. Thanks for finishing the game despite all that happened.”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played“It is a good TD game (I would even say very good considering that there's not a lot of good alternatives around these days). It keeps introducing new things and new twists all the way through. Is it as good as the first entry? No. Is it a bit on the easy side (and could it…”
— a player, Steam review · 51 hrs played“I'm a huge fan of the original [i]Defender's Quest[/i], I liked the aesthetics and the story of the original game, I liked how much the difficulty ramps up (new game+ is easily twenty hours). Tower Defense has been one of my favorite genres ever since the golden age of Flash,…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedLatest official news
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Version 1.2 release
Version 1.2 patch notes: Gameplay: Updated advanced missions from 8-1 onwards to be more difficult. Gameplay: Added a new backer enemy! This is a geometric boss designed by one of our early backers. G
v1.1 - Localizations + bugs and QoL
Hello everyone! This is our first large update since launch and the star is the integration of 6 new languages! We fixed a bunch of alignment and spacing issues by hand, but a few may still remain - f
DQ2 Soundtrack launched
We're happy to announce that Kevin Penkin's awesome* DQ2 soundtrack is available for sale ! Kevin reworked all of the tracks so that instead of looping they have a nice conclusion, all the better for
2nd attempt to fix crash for non-English characters in Windows
Hopefully we've settled the problem in which users with non-English characters in their usernames are seeing a crash on startup. If you can confirm either way please let us know here! Thanks!
Hopefully fix non-English username crash, but Hyde nerf
We've been seeing crashes on startup for users with non-English usernames in non-English locales. We think we've finally nailed down the cause and this build will hopefully fix that. Additionally, Hyd
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · RPG · Tower Defense · Tactical RPG · 2D · Female Protagonist · Real Time Tactics · Indie · Strategy RPG · Tactical · Stylized · Cartoony (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 33 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.defendersquest2.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 x64 Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K (4 * 3300), AMD FX-4350 (4 * 4200) or equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GT 640 (2048 MB) or Radeon R7 250 (2048 MB) Storage: 1 GB available space