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Element TD 2 - Tower Defense
Element TD 2 sees you combine powerful elements to create unique towers. Prove your defenses against challenging foes, and compete or cooperate with others to determine who has mastered the elements.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
50 of the 68 reviews raise this.
“good game to follow defense grid the awakening and defense grid 2”
“Solid implementation of the original wc3 funmap, but the towers are different and it makes me a little sad. Achievements are grindy”
9 of the 68 reviews raise this.
“Its fun, its cool, its multiplayer, it has hat, need more... nope just play the game if you like TD's :)”
“Great game to play with friends or on a lan party. netcode has improved over the last year(s), earlier the games could desync, but that does not happen anymore nowadays. The mazing expansion adds really a great way of…”
“Straight forward TD, epic music and nice co-op”
6 of the 68 reviews raise this.
“I got this game because "oh looks cool and how come I hardly ever play tower defence games". It's been two days and I can't stop playing, help. It's pretty (including the soundtrack), easy to learn and hard to master…”
“Great game to play with friends or on a lan party. netcode has improved over the last year(s), earlier the games could desync, but that does not happen anymore nowadays. The mazing expansion adds really a great way of…”
5 of the 68 reviews raise this.
“I got this game because "oh looks cool and how come I hardly ever play tower defence games". It's been two days and I can't stop playing, help. It's pretty (including the soundtrack), easy to learn and hard to master…”
“Great tower defense game. Get the "Mazing" dlc to take it up a notch. I find it more challenging than some tower defense games. I bought it on the Steam Spring Sale and it was well worth it.”
4 of the 68 reviews raise this.
6 of the 68 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“While it is passable as a TD and may be worth the money if you're looking for a single-player TD itch-scratcher, there's not much here to turn your head or add to the original experience of the Warcraft 3 custom map.…”
“Realistically, I can't recommend this (for coop). I got this with the idea that it was a coop for campaign. But there is no coop campaign, just skirmishes that can be coop. Seems like a fun game. But it doesn't work for…”
“balance is no good, upgrading a tower is not equal to building more they should of copied pokimons' element balancing cuz there's makes no sense. light and dark should do 200% against each other Earth should do 200%…”
4 of the 68 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“balance is no good, upgrading a tower is not equal to building more they should of copied pokimons' element balancing cuz there's makes no sense. light and dark should do 200% against each other Earth should do 200%…”
4 of the 68 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Not a great experience for me. The game doesn't look great; it's animated, yes, but very minor animations (AFAICT), but otherwise is pretty flat. Units are distinguishable but unremarkable and seem to have no shared…”
“While it is passable as a TD and may be worth the money if you're looking for a single-player TD itch-scratcher, there's not much here to turn your head or add to the original experience of the Warcraft 3 custom map.…”
“balance is no good, upgrading a tower is not equal to building more they should of copied pokimons' element balancing cuz there's makes no sense. light and dark should do 200% against each other Earth should do 200%…”
3 of the 68 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“balance is no good, upgrading a tower is not equal to building more they should of copied pokimons' element balancing cuz there's makes no sense. light and dark should do 200% against each other Earth should do 200%…”
3 of the 68 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Realistically, I can't recommend this (for coop). I got this with the idea that it was a coop for campaign. But there is no coop campaign, just skirmishes that can be coop. Seems like a fun game. But it doesn't work for…”
Counted across 68 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 90.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Its element TD, one of the OG tower defense games in wc3 made into standalone. Its good.”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“If you're tired of installing Warcraft III just to play this classic TD, then worry no more! It's nice to see that these guys escaped the horrors of Blizzard's greed by forming their own dev studio to put out a definitive version of this. No idea who actually came up with the…”
— a player, Steam review · 34 hrs played“Takes a while to understand all mechanics. Once you do, this is the best tower defense game available.”
— a player, Steam review · 496 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 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 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Another Small Update
The minimum level to participate in Ranked has been lowered to 10 (down from 15). This should help new players find more activity but still not get immediately smashed by veterans. The large download
Small Update
A long overdue feature has been added. You can now play singleplayer without submitting to the leaderboards. This is for those of you who want to cheat but not get banned. Also, Plague Tower has been
Version 1.9.6
A small update for the holidays. Fixed potential causes of desync for Windstorm, Flamethrower, Root, and Archdruid towers Upgraded Unity game engine version Poison tower base damage decreased from 150
Version 1.9.5 - P2P Networking Added, Leaderboard Reset, New Ranked Season
Peer to Peer Networking We've added Peer To Peer Networking support. Both public and LAN options are available. Public is for playing with anyone anywhere. LAN is for private lobbies within an interna
Version 1.9.5.alpha7
With the upcoming 5th year anniversary of Element TD 2, it felt time to release something meaty. We've pushed an alpha build that adds Peer To Peer Networking support. Both public and LAN options are
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Tower Defense · Real Time Tactics · Multiplayer · Fantasy · Strategy · PvE · PvP · Team-Based · Competitive · Character Customization · RTS · 3D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English * , Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Romanian, French, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Turkish, Korean * |
| Achievements | 456 |
| Official site | https://www.eletd.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 8 Processor: Dual Core 2.6+ GHz Intel or AMD Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 1024 MB VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 15 GB available space