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Neural Shock

Neural Shock

Control your Hero to aid your Turrets and Traps in battle in this grim, dark Tower Defense & Action RPG with a scifi-grindhouse aesthetic. Create deadly weapon barrages and fuse together Bleed, Burn, Shock, Freeze, Stun and many more elements to annihilate your enemies.

Released Jun 19, 2024 Developer Hardwired Studios Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Action RPGAdventureTower DefenseStrategyIndie
View on Steam ↗ $5.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

95.2%positive63 reviews
Recommended · 15 found this helpful

“Written By Hidden Gems Review : https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38624426/, Follow me! Neural Shock is a Tower Defense game. I know the visuals are very ugly but it's one of the most challenging and addictive about the genre of tower defense with a interesting grind up on…”

— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played
Recommended · 14 found this helpful

“A game worth its price. Tower defense game, with stiff turret placement complemented with mobile main character. Character provides more progression and variability than just turrets normally do. Played the demo by a friends suggestion, bought the game in its release. Special…”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“First the downsides, the graphics are not to everyone's taste. They weren't even to my taste. However, after a few hours of playing, I don't even see the graphics anymore, I just see blood. And the blood tells me I'm doing something right. I like tower defense games, and I was…”

— a player, Steam review · 48 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.

61achievements
6.1%median completion
1.1%rarest: Engineer Level 90
86.9% of players 74.6% of players 51.2% of players 48.4% of players 27.7% of players 26.9% of players 25.2% of players 18.9% of players 18.9% of players 16.4% of players 15.5% of players 15.5% of players 15.3% of players 14.2% of players 13.5% of players 11.6% of players 11.4% of players 10.6% of players 10.5% of players 10.0% of players 9.5% of players 8.5% of players 8.5% of players 8.2% of players 8.2% of players 7.7% of players 7.5% of players 7.1% of players 6.4% of players 6.4% of players 6.1% of players 5.9% of players 5.9% of players 5.9% of players 5.8% of players 5.8% of players 5.6% of players 5.6% of players 5.3% of players 5.0% of players 4.5% of players 4.3% of players 4.2% of players 3.5% of players 3.3% of players 3.3% of players 3.0% of players 2.7% of players 2.7% of players 2.7% of players 2.4% of players 2.2% of players 2.2% of players 2.2% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 86.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
86.9%Ready for Action — You completed the Tutorial. Think you are ready to take on the big boys now?
74.6%Slaughterer — You have killed 100 Enemies.
51.2%Completed 5 Missions — You have completed 5 missions. Good work, but there's still more to go.
Rarest badges of honor
1.1%Engineer Level 90 — You've reached Level 90 with the Engineer.
1.1%Engineer Level 75 — You've reached Level 75 with the Engineer.
1.2%Sniper Level 90 — You've reached Level 90 with the Sniper.

Latest official news

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

Feb 02, 2026
Patch Notes - v1.2.9

Features Yuletide Terror event is over - until next year! Powerup (Gift box) timed event is also disabled Added a button for cancelling turret placement in the interface where you select the direction

Dec 27, 2025
Patch Notes - v1.2.6

Features Added Steam Deck support Recommendation is to use the Official Layout - Gamepad With Joystick Trackpad for the best user experience

Dec 25, 2025
Patch Notes - v1.2.5

Features Added controller support Added mode: Endless Waves Added new speed-up mode: x8 Known issues Linux build may not support controllers as intended - this is affecting Steam Deck currently

Dec 18, 2025
Neural Shock: Yuletide Terror - Patch Notes v1.2.4

Ho Ho Ho, Winter has come, bringing with it the festive spirit of holidays to the land of Neural Shock. The Yuletide Terror patch ushers in new macabre, but festive clothing on the creatures and creep

May 24, 2025
Patch Notes - v1.2.1

Features / Improvements Added support for Android and iOS! Changed Laser Turret's Increase Stun Chance (30%) upgrade to Add Flat Stun Chance (15%). The Increase did not affect the chance on the Turret

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Player tagsAction RPG · Adventure · Tower Defense · Strategy · Indie · RPG · 2D · Pixel Graphics · Singleplayer · Dark · Futuristic · Cyberpunk (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · Steam Cloud
LanguagesEnglish * *
ControllerFull support
Achievements61
Official sitehttps://hardwiredgamestudios.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Dual Core CPU, Intel i5 or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support, GeForce GTX 1070 or newer Storage: 300 MB available space