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Desperate Place

Desperate Place

Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.

Released Apr 21, 2025 Developer BruceGalaxy Platforms Windows Top-Down ShooterStrategyTower DefenseCity BuilderShooter
View on Steam ↗ $10.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.

71.0%positive300 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Like it very much”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“The scale of monster waves increases very quickly for the limited and lackluster metaprogression you get to compensate. Leading to missions feeling a real slog to get through.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Feels a bit raw: 1. UI has typos, missing translation, fails to give some information about changes on upgrading tower etc. 2. Controls are somewhat confusing (would love to build with my mouse, not by running to some spot on the other side of the map or swapping 20 buildings…”

— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played
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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.

33achievements
10.1%median completion
0.2%rarest: Mobile Fountain
94.5% of players 47.1% of players 46.5% of players 44.3% of players 42.6% of players 24.9% of players 23.9% of players 18.8% of players 18.1% of players 17.4% of players 15.7% of players 15.5% of players 14.0% of players 12.9% of players 12.8% of players 10.5% of players 10.1% of players 10.0% of players 7.5% of players 5.7% of players 4.5% of players 3.8% of players 3.3% of players 2.5% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 94.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
94.5%Good day — Successfully explore the β-6 region
47.1%1+1＞2 — Obtain the robot reward from the last Airdrop
46.5%Give it your all — Build 3 Geothermal collectors in the β-3 region
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Mobile Fountain — Restore a total of 1,200,000 HP through the aura carried by the T600 tactical robot
0.2%Tactics Master III — Use tactical skills more than 200 times
0.4%Tactics Master II — Use tactical skills more than 100 times

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$10.99current · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$10.99lowest since tracking began2026-08-12
US10.99 USD
EU10.79 EUR
UK9.29 GBP
Australia16.25 AUD
Canada13.99 CAD
Japan1,300 JPY
Brazil35.79 BRL
China45.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$6.7 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$12

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 08-12 08-21 08-30 09-08 09-17 09-26

Latest official news

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

Jul 29, 2025
Desperate Place 1.2.0 Balance Adjustments

Dear players, Based on your feedback, we've made a round of balance adjustments to certain values in the current version alongside the development of new content. We will continue to monitor feedback

Jun 18, 2025
Desperate Place: Major Update "A New Start" Now Live!

Dear Players, It has been nearly two months since Desperate Place launched. During this time, we’ve received a great deal of valuable feedback and suggestions. We sincerely thank you for your support

Jun 11, 2025
"A Fresh Start" Major Update – One Week Countdown

It’s been over a month since Desperate Place officially launched. We’re incredibly grateful for all the support and feedback from our players. In response, we’ll be bringing our first major update in

Apr 28, 2025
Future Update Roadmap Released

It’s been nearly a week since Desperate Place launched — heartfelt thanks to every Commander for your support and feedback! Your suggestions have been an invaluable source of direction and motivation

Apr 28, 2025
Desperate Place - Version 1.0.2 Patch Notes

Dear players, Thank you for your continued support and feedback! In this update, we’ve made the following optimizations and fixes: Optimization Adjustments Improved English localization, enhancing tra

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.

GenresIndie, Strategy
Player tagsTop-Down Shooter · Strategy · Tower Defense · City Builder · Shooter · 2D · Top-Down · Cyberpunk · Base-Building · Space · Fantasy · Sci-fi (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean
ControllerFull support
Achievements33
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: windows 10 64biT Processor: Inter Core i3+ / AMD R3+ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvdia Geforce GTX 750 Storage: 1 GB available space