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Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)
Defender's Quest is a Tower-Defense/RPG Hybrid tightly focuses on three things: tactical depth, customization, and story
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“** Play on “last_stable” ** I was having issues with the game crashing frequently - at one point I was totally unable to boot up the game at all. I switched to the “last_stable” version (Feb 16, 2018) which fixed all of my issues and also resolved a weird character model glitch.…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played“tl;dr Despite the now frequent crashes in the DX edition, you should get it if it's on sale and you like a tower defense genre game with a good story. I'll be honest, I couldn't even tell you when I got this game. Probably circa 2012 when it came out and I was really into tower…”
— a player, Steam review · 43 hrs played“This game does nothing but crash. No it isn't my computer read other reviews and go to the forums. It's a fun game, seriously it would be probably the best tower defense ever made but the developer eventually gave up trying to fix the crashes after patching it many times and…”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:55 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Defender's Quest II: Mists of Ruin is now available!
Hello everyone! We're excited to announce that Defender's Quest II is officially live! It actually released last week, but we've been working through some initial bugs and it is now in a more stable s
Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin re-announcement. Releasing 2023
Hey everyone! It's been a while. We've been posting monthly progress reports for the past few years over at www.fortressofdoors.com, but now we're finally bringing Defender's Quest 2 back out of the s
Hotfix, version 2.2.6
A few final issues resolved in another hotfix. Thanks for your patience. STATUS: Windows: YES Linux: YES Mac: YES Changelog for 2.2.6 6/1/2018: - Fixed crash in battles when you defeat an enemy with o
Hotfix, version 2.2.5
And another one. STATUS: - Windows: YES - Mac: YES - Linux: YES Changelog for 2.2.5 5/31/2018: - Fixed crash in recruit screen if you try to hire someone you can't afford - Fixed overlapping "buy" and
Hotfix, version 2.2.4
Status: - Windows: YES - Mac: YES - Linux: YES Changelog for 2.2.4 5/30/2018: - Fixed missing cutscene art in legacy art mode - Fixed healer bug where boost-1 level healers wouldn't heal a defender pl
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Tower Defense · Female Protagonist · Tactical RPG · Strategy · RPG · 2D · Story Rich · Pixel Graphics · Zombies · Fantasy · Medieval · Moddable (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Czech, German, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Italian, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 30 |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.defendersquest.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP Processor: 1.5 Ghz, single core Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: N/A Hard Drive: 100 MB HD space Sound: Any