# Steampunk Defense — user reviews > 365 indexed App Store user reviews of Steampunk Defense by Cantalooza Games LLC, rated 4.30/5 from 8,282 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/steampunk-defense/id999261235/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/steampunk-defense/id999261235.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,530 · 4★ 2,630 · 3★ 764 · 2★ 136 · 1★ 222 ## What do users think of Steampunk Defense? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Good game - 🕹️ Fun and addictive gameplay - 💰 Free to play with optional in-app purchases **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 💸 Aggressive monetization with ads and energy system - 🕹️ Lack of depth and repetitive gameplay - 🚫 False advertising - not actually steampunk themed **Commonly reported bugs** - Game progress and purchases not saving properly - Crashes and freezes when switching apps or during gameplay - Inconsistent upgrade and hero mechanics **Most requested features** - More level variety and progression - Improved performance and stability - Better explanation of game mechanics and hero abilities ## Newest reviews (10 of 365) ### 2/5 — Crashing *2025-01-05, version 2.31* Every time I go to open my game now it’s crashing I’ve deleted and downloaded again it hasn’t worked ### 4/5 — Fun game *2024-11-09, version 2.31* Fun game Easy to play Been playing it for years Great game for a quick tower defense game ### 4/5 — Good game *2023-07-15, version 2.31* Some ads take you out of game ### 2/5 — Decent KR Clone but… *2023-06-28, version 2.31* The major issue with this game is difficulty/cash shop. I feel bad knowing all this other heroes/towers are added to the game, knowing no one will use them. The ‘Hard’ difficulty is trivial with the free starter heroes and towers. The cash shop offers no incentive to purchase anything, as it wouldn’t even speed up completing the game. Some other somewhat glaring problems in no particular order… 1. Only a few towers have upgrade animations. Some towers have 3 levels, some have 5 with no additional choices 2. At 4X speed and up, the Jedi towers break, spazzing the units across the screen and flashing everywhere 3. Level length is too short, and there’s really only about 6-7 enemies. Even at 2X speed, a level takes only a minute or two. When the levels are this short, there’s no long term strategy so you just place any tower wherever and you’ll still win (even on hard!) 4. Power balance of towers. You’ll be fine really with any of them, but you can just spam fire mage and go AFK. It’s cheaper than the Jedi tower and is way too OP 5. Varying texture resolution. Some assets are clean/crisp, but most are blurry and undefined when you really look at them 6. No indication before starting a level if there will be air/water units. Nothing like making it to the last wave just to have 5 helicopters teleport to the end, and you need a special tower to take them down. Great replaying the entire thing just to put one different tower For a game that ripped most of the core gameplay off of an already established title, you need to improve on those mechanics, not half bake each one. A lot of good things going on though, and with a little polish, could easily rival KR and similar games ### 2/5 — Great system but... *2020-11-05, version 2.31* Pros - The system is great and gameplay variations are fun to play with. - Really cool diversity with the enemy’s powers and movements Cons - I personally don’t like the graphics, like how it contrasts to the theme of steampunk and how dry the animation and sound is - i found a cheat tip where you can just place mines all over the place before starting the match which i hope can be disallowed ### 5/5 — Amazing *2020-08-03, version 2.31* Awesome awesome awesome ### 5/5 — I love this stuff *2020-07-08, version 2.31* I think its great to have a really cartoony and good looking game for free and I really hope it stays that way. I also love that you can buy hero’s, but you can also obtain them in the actual game. I think this game is amazing and the amount of levels and character designs is really just amazing. ### 3/5 — Decent fun, but the challenge ends in the middle *2020-07-04, version 2.31* This is fun, but after a point somewhere around level 20 it stops being any kind of challenge. ### 1/5 — My 2 towers I purchased r not unlocking *2020-06-14, version 2.30.1* Purchased the guitarist and monk tower pack, got charged unlocked ads, bought two more towers which unlocked but feel like got fleeced. Wish someone would help ### 5/5 — 5 star review *2020-06-01, version 2.30.1* This is 100% one of my favorite tower defense game. The music. The art. If you are reading this review check out the game you won’t regret downloading it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2026-03-13, version 2.31* Very buggy and not responsive. Plus the levels are way too short. You don’t have time to upgrade your weapons, when you start getting into the level it’s over. ### 1/5 — Rip-off *2025-11-10, version 2.31* Do not play this game. If you’ve read other reviews, you have seen many complaints of people buying a no ad package and still getting ads. But not only does this game scam you, it isn’t even an original scam: all of the levels are ripped straight from a great TD game series called Kingdom Rush. When I say stolen, I mean the layout of tracks and tower spots. They aren’t similar, they’re exact same. If you want a good TD game, go get Kingdom Rush. Some of them cost money, but it’s only like 3-5 pounds, better that than whatever this cash grab wants from you. ### 1/5 — Stopped working *2025-01-09, version 2.31* Just stopped working one day. Started working again a week or so later after checking on the off chance but four years of progress are gone. I’d have thought the issue was my problem if it weren’t for the fact that no other games on my device had the issue except another game by the same developer having the exact same problem. Very disappointing. Update: Having played it for a short while today, it’s obvious the game has been updated with different gui in places. ### 1/5 — Rip-off *2024-12-06, version 2.31* Do not play this game, if you have read other reviews you have seen many complaints of people buying a no ad package and still getting ads. But not only does this game scam you, it isn’t even an original scam all of the levels are ripped straight from one of the best TD game series out there called kingdom rush. When I say stolen I mean the layout of tracks and tower spots, I don’t mean similar, I mean the exact same. If you want a good game go get kingdom rush some of them cost money but it’s only like 3-5 pounds, better that than whatever this cash grab wants from you. ### 1/5 — Glitch *2024-08-11, version 2.31* Lost one of the defense towers and now double it up on a second one, has not upgraded, and you cannot notify makers of error. ### 1/5 — Scam *2023-08-26, version 2.31* This game is a re skin scamof another tower defense game ### 1/5 — Mediocre *2022-01-26, version 2.31* Standard TD games with some disgusting sensual graphic reference. The bug even funny, we can use mines as many as we want before the game started because it keep reloading. ### 1/5 — SCAMMED! *2021-04-25, version 2.31* I bought one of the in app purchases for $6 which would allow me to get 2 heroes of my choice and a bunch of other rewards. I go to check my heroes and I don’t have them, what a joke. ### 1/5 — What a ripoff :( *2021-03-31, version 2.31* This game is a shameless ripoff of the Kingdom Rush series. The gameplay, features, maps, and even to some extent the music are all shoddy imitations, but it all feels clunky and hastily put together. It’s a disappointing plagiarism and a huge disrespect toward Ironhide Games. Do better. ### 1/5 — Poor customer support *2020-09-18, version 2.31* The game is fun. Fun enough to spend some dollars on it. But when you don’t receive what you puchased it is a downer. But hey nothing is perfect, no problem. When then you request support and nobody responds then this just p#ss-poor and you deserve no stars. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun game *2024-06-24, version 2.31* My 6 year old son loves this game and he now got me into playing it with him. It’s a lot of fun. The ads can be annoying but this game has less than I was expecting so that’s a plus. ### 5/5 — The game good but when you buy some thing it does does not work *2023-07-02, version 2.31* I tried buying something and it did not work ### 5/5 — Amazing *2022-06-30, version 2.31* Amazing try it out ### 5/5 — love it! *2022-01-20, version 2.31* this is a great game, overall one of the tower defences because it gets harder over time (thats what she said) it also has unique heros which this company is known for. 5 stars cant wait for the next release! ### 5/5 — Fun way to spend some down time *2021-09-15, version 2.31* This is a wonderful game, not very difficult but still a wonderful game. Thank you to the dev team and anyone else who worked to make this happen. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2021-08-04, version 2.31* Interesting game. Fun to play. Game control is easy to learn ### 5/5 — Great game *2020-11-23, version 2.31* It's definitely one of the best tower defense games I've ever played. It combats the common problem of getting boring after you've already built a solid defense by limiting resources and shortening individual missions to keep you engaged. It's relaxing and a good pick-up-and-play for when your bored. ### 5/5 — Excellent well made game *2020-10-31, version 2.31* beautiful graphics and gameplay ### 5/5 — Simple *2020-09-23, version 2.31* Perfect if you are bored. Mindless pleasure of tower defense ### 5/5 — I love TD *2020-08-31, version 2.31* I love Tower defense because they are so FUN so I gave it fivestars --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-16.*