Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense
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Tower defense and strategy drive this 2D singleplayer indie game, tagged as difficult. Released in 2018, it has 7,804 Steam reviews with 96% positive sentiment, rated overwhelmingly positive. Ironhide Game Studio is both developer and publisher, with an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense is a 2018 Indie game developed by Ironhide Game Studio and published by Ironhide Game Studio. On Steam it has gathered 7,818 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Ironhide Game Studio with publisher Ironhide Game Studio is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 352,000 to 821,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
7,818
Positive
96%
Steam appid
816340
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0352K to 821K
units (median: 586K)
≈ $3.0M to $7.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense at roughly 352,000 to 821,000 copies, with a median around 586,000, derived from its 7,818 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $8.43Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $8.43 to $14.99, averaging $14.37 across 1 discount window, with a historical low of $8.43 on 2026-05-01.
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense sold?
- indielist estimates Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense has sold between 351,810 and 820,890 units (median 586,350), derived from its 7,818 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense?
- Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense was developed by Ironhide Game Studio and published by Ironhide Game Studio.
- When was Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense released?
- Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense have on Steam?
- Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense has 7,818 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Ironhide Game Studio's other releases and Ironhide Game Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.