Every Kingdom Rush game, ranked
All 2 Kingdom Rush games we hold, spanning 2014 to 2024: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 28,858 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense (GamingPickz Score 8.1), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Kingdom Rush games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Kingdom Rush games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
8.1GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceKingdom Rush - Tower Defense at a glance Released 2014 Studio Ironhide Game Studio Player sentiment 97% positive of 17,136 Critics No aggregate Price $9.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 1.46 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 97% shrinks to 96.7 on 17,136 reviews, giving 8.1. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Small install at 1.46 GB.
- 2
Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.4GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceKingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD at a glance Released 2024 Studio Ironhide Game Studio Player sentiment 88% positive of 11,722 Critics No aggregate Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 1 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 88% shrinks to 87.9 on 11,722 reviews, giving 7.4. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Small install at 1 GB.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Kingdom Rush game we can score is Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense at 8.1. The lowest is Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD at 7.4, a 0.7-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense at $9.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Kingdom Rush entries on Steam:
- Playable: Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense, Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Kingdom Rush games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Kingdom Rush series, game by game
Every Kingdom Rush game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2014
Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations! (Steam)
- 2024
While a formidable evil emerges, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army to stop it. Beware! Though they may journey side by side the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course. (Steam)
Kingdom Rush, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Kingdom Rush vs other series
How Kingdom Rush stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Kingdom Rush games are there?
We hold 2 Kingdom Rush games in the catalogue, released between 2014 and 2024. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Kingdom Rush game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense rates highest at 8.1. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Kingdom Rush games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2014 to 2024. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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