Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-13
- Charming and beautiful art style
- Excellent tower defense gameplay
- Great music and sound design
- Tower balance is poor
- Achievement system is grindy
- Frequent game crashes
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 8-11GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 7,818
- Positive
- 7,47195.6%
- Negative
- 3474.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 589,529
- Estimated revenue
- $8,837,040
- Game price
- $15
- Review ā sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 30.34%
- Estimated copies lost
- 226
- Estimated revenue lost
- $3,388
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ć Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ā¤ 2h playtime | 30.3% Avg playtime 0.7h | 50.6% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 627.1% Avg playtime 17.7h | 80392% Avg playtime 31.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 16.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,794.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
873 total
Organic purchasers76687.7%
Voted up: 93%
Key activations10712.3%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
873 total
First impression0-2h354.01%
Voted up: 83%
Mid game2-10h28532.6%
Voted up: 90%
Late game10-20h22125.3%
Voted up: 92%
Endgame20h+33238.0%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 92.6%
3 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 7,818 total.