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Dungeon Defenders II
Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
58 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“I love the game but cant recommend it to anyone. The servers are ass. You cant play the game when you want. You play it when it allows you too. Other than the servers being trash its a great game to play with friends,…”
“This game needs more grind than Warthunder. Chaos will consume your soul. Download at your own risk,good game”
“Can recommend this in 2026 it plays a lot better now than what I experience from its release. Definitely a different flavor from DD 1 & DD awakened. I have not encountered any major bugs and the servers is stable for…”
9 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“Can recommend this in 2026 it plays a lot better now than what I experience from its release. Definitely a different flavor from DD 1 & DD awakened. I have not encountered any major bugs and the servers is stable for…”
“Personally, I love this game. Had a lot of fun and it being free I would 100% recommend. plus you don't have to pay to get new things”
“free version of the original dungeon defenders but because of that its also worse”
5 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“So to start things off, i do recommend this game to newer players. It has A LOT of content, so much so that new players might feel overwhelmed, but the community is amazing, they're almost all super friendly and willing…”
“Easy to get started, a bit fun in the campaign and not hard to understand.”
“10/10 no complaints what so ever, thank you for hours of non stressful and engaging gameplay”
4 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“Fun grindy game (though fast at first) that's playable without cash if you can accept not hording loot and only grabbing upgrades and constantly emptying the rest. If you like to horde stuff you may want to buy bags.…”
“Really enjoyable and relatively low commitment. Moving up and into the late-game also feels smooth. Matchmaking sometimes feels as if there should be more players, as one may struggle to get into the Chaos level they…”
“My favorite game of all time. I am huge into grinding, farming, pushing, climbing, becoming overpowered, option for challenge this game has it all. Once I got 2 monitors back in 2020 this game got even better because I…”
3 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“So to start things off, i do recommend this game to newer players. It has A LOT of content, so much so that new players might feel overwhelmed, but the community is amazing, they're almost all super friendly and willing…”
“My favorite game of all time. I am huge into grinding, farming, pushing, climbing, becoming overpowered, option for challenge this game has it all. Once I got 2 monitors back in 2020 this game got even better because I…”
14 of the 101 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“9+ years of development... still loaded to the brim with bugs. - mouse escapes window onto second monitor even when in full screen - items moved between bags/vaults get moved back sometimes (can lead to accidentally…”
“Devs merged all server into one, unless you're already playing on NA the game becomes pretty much impossible to play. The amount of issues caused by this has reached my limit. Things like constant rubberbanding, actions…”
“As a 9+ years game, the game remains buggy. In addition, a very ineffective devs team, allowing the game to have more than 48hrs down time to fix an exploit issues, I really don't recommend any of DD series game due to…”
13 of the 101 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Devs merged all server into one, unless you're already playing on NA the game becomes pretty much impossible to play. The amount of issues caused by this has reached my limit. Things like constant rubberbanding, actions…”
“This game is micro transaction galore, Looks cute and has this appeal in terms of graphics but otherwise the game is not very good. it is really grindy in a boring rinse and repeat way.”
“This game needs more grind than Warthunder. Chaos will consume your soul. Download at your own risk,good game”
9 of the 101 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is micro transaction galore, Looks cute and has this appeal in terms of graphics but otherwise the game is not very good. it is really grindy in a boring rinse and repeat way.”
“I played DD1 when I was a kid, sad to see pay to win 90% of the game”
“pitiful money grab. ..............................................just want to take ur money and do nothing for the players.”
8 of the 101 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Devs merged all server into one, unless you're already playing on NA the game becomes pretty much impossible to play. The amount of issues caused by this has reached my limit. Things like constant rubberbanding, actions…”
“I love the game but cant recommend it to anyone. The servers are ass. You cant play the game when you want. You play it when it allows you too. Other than the servers being trash its a great game to play with friends,…”
“there is only one reason that there is no cross platform”
5 of the 101 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is micro transaction galore, Looks cute and has this appeal in terms of graphics but otherwise the game is not very good. it is really grindy in a boring rinse and repeat way.”
“Doesn't compare to the prequel”
“DD1 is better in almost every single aspect, and DD:A is also just a better, more updated version of this game. Stick to DD1 and DD:A first before booting DD2 up in 2026. Also extremely more buggy than the other games.”
Counted across 101 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 77.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“It's fun but i can't start up the game in steam right now for some reason.”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played“[h1] Sturdy mix of tower defense and third person action bonanza. Choose different heroes for your party (up to 4) and build defenses like towers, barricades, traps and other shenanigans. Each hero have its own set of defensive structures to build. Find better gear to equip in…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Dont play this game and especially dont spend any money on it! Game has items disappearing from bank & inventory... Daily rewards and items from the (paid for) BATTLEPASS($19.99), items sent to scavenger(high value chests) just disappearing into the void. There is NO way to…”
— a player, Steam review · 216 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:45 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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The Golden Crusade - Hotfix 5
Bug Fixes Fixed a bug that caused Headstrong enemies to ignore being stunned through freezing or petrify Fixed a bug that caused relics without a crit damage/chance roll to gain a phantom +1% bonus to
The Golden Crusade - Hotfix 4
Bug Fixes Fixed controllers selling items when transferring to the shard vault. Fixed an issue where multiple nodes on a node-type tower were causing it to multiply the output. Fixed an issue where un
The Golden Crusade - Hotfix 3
Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where lobbies would become bugged, letting you walk through spawn barriers, never start the match, etc. Fixed an issue where you'd get stuck on a loading screen if other playe
The Golden Crusade - Hotfix 2
Bug Fixes Tower-inspect SETUP panel now is sized to its content instead of the tower's main-stat content. Each rolled stat's now shows exact roll % on the item ALT/detail hover Abbreviated the item-to
The Golden Crusade - Hotfix 1
Bug Fixes Fixed Elemental Rumble weekly challenges awarding incorrect armor and stones. Corrected the names of the golden and poison Orcs and Mages in Elemental Rumble. Fixed stone drop rates for the
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Indie, RPG, Strategy, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Multiplayer · Online Co-Op · Co-op Campaign · Tower Defense · Singleplayer · Strategy RPG · Survival · Action RPG · Building · Third Person · Character Customization · Tactical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 18 |
| Estimated owners | 2,000,000 – 5,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.dungeondefenders.com/2/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 (SP1) 64-Bit Processor: 2.0 Ghz Dual-Core CPU Memory: 3 GB RAM Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 or better / NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better, 512 MB video memory, with Shader Model 3 support DirectX: Version 9.0 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 20 GB available space Sound Card: DirectSound-compatible sound device Additional Notes: Internet connection is required to play.