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Shieldwall
Shieldwall is a funny third-person tactical battle simulator with strategy elements. It allows you to feel like a squad leader right on the battlefield.
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
57 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“its a game about shields and u make a wall. its cool. would recommend”
“the best game i played in 1 day but mount mount & blade is fun to so play them both”
“The game is OK. It can be fun but it gets boring quick. I say this game would be worth the money if it was on sale.”
4 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“i cant recommend it enough, vary hard but great mechanics in and out of battle. if you liked tabs you will like this”
“It's good, well balanced, good rise in difficulty through the levels”
“this game is great, but challenging. lots of great maps and cool features!”
7 of the 100 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Starting levels are fun but it gets progressively more imbalanced. Why do all the other teams get 1.5x gold and more starting gold? Extremely repetitive”
“Great game, way more difficult than I thought it was going to be. Definitely some frustrating levels that made me quit more times than I would have liked but overall great experience!”
4 of the 100 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“good foundation, lacks a lot of jugability, lacks a lot of tactical dinamics, extremelly simple and repetitive game”
4 of the 100 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Shield wall is a great game however a few bugs do make it difficult to play. Whether it be the ai movement or the random clipping through the map. If you can look past the bugs and simple gameplay loop it is a great game”
“solely negative review for the catapult levels. the jump in difficult is absolutely ridiculously insane. when you aren't getting sniped by the catapults the whole time (yes, I will be by myself running and they will…”
3 of the 100 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“amazing game but could use more units better terain and have the abilety to have alies with pvp and a lot more mods is the main problem”
3 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Game is rage at best, constant whack-a-mole on capping flag. Regarding combat, only engaging when all the planets and stars align properly. Worst thing is you can't contest caps properly. If enemy somehow manages to cap…”
Counted across 100 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 86.5% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“we need more tropers like 50 or 45 the max limite is 25 like bro to small”
— a player, Steam review · 485 hrs played“this game is seriously fun to play, even more fun with friends. Current playable factions: Roma Greece Celtics Egypt Persia ---------- wish there were more factions to this, like the Thracians, Getae, Samnites, or even the desert tribes like Saba, Nabataea, or even Kush, this…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“Shieldwall is a chaotic third-person Roman battle sim where you play squad leader Caesar, screaming orders at pixel legions while trying not to die instantly. You capture flags, spend gold on militia/spearmen/legionnaires, spam javelins to shred testudo walls, and pray your meat…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 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
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update - New Map
Hello! 23 Mar 2020 Shieldwall was released in Early Access on Steam. To celebrate the anniversary, I've prepared an update, which includes a new map called Mountain Junction. The map is available in C
Shieldwall is out of Early Access now!
Hello there! Shieldwall is out of Early Access now! It gets the final act of the campaign, Steam Achievements, new translations and some other improvements! It's v.1.0.0 now! Thank you for your suppor
Soundtrack Out Now!
Hello everyone and happy holidays! Shieldwall Soundtrack is now available on Steam! Andrey Kovalchuk composed beautiful music for Shieldwall. The album includes all the tracks made for each campaign m
Coliseum - Update
Hello there! Here is an update including a new map with an epic arena! List of changes: Coliseum map for Multiplayer and Custom battles The map includes new type of flags - flags with a blue asterisk.
Multiplayer Improvements
Hello there! Multiplayer Beta is going well. Here is the first update based on your feedback. New features A new map (Desert Arena) is available for Custom Battles and Multiplayer Matches Chat in mult
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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 | Action, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Action · Simulation · Medieval · Sandbox · Strategy · War · Funny · Rome · Colorful · Historical · Indie · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish * |
| Achievements | 43 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 64-bit Windows 10 Processor: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940 Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD R9 270 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space