Genre StrategyReleased Dec 8, 2008
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Developed and published by Hidden Path Entertainment
$9.99
Estimated lifetime revenue
$358.6K
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$251.0K
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
68.7K
≈ 13 sales per review
Reviews
5,384
Overwhelmingly Positive96% positive
Playing now
43
9-day peak 43 · low 42
New reviews, last 9 days
+4
≈ 0 a day since Oct 8
History
Oct 8 – Oct 17
5.4K5.4K5.4K5.4K
Oct 8Oct 12Oct 17
Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.
How it compares
Strategy →Against the 120 most-reviewed Strategy games on Steam
Outearns 20% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.
Median
$15.59M
114,721 reviews
Top 10% start at
$67.69M
This game
$358.6K
Fewest reviews of the group
The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.
About
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.
- Developer
- Hidden Path Entertainment
- Publisher
- Hidden Path Entertainment
- Genre
- Strategy
- Released
- Dec 8, 2008
- Steam app ID
- 18500
- Data updated
- Oct 17, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.