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Which tower defense games actually get played?

57 tower defense games owned in at least 30 of the libraries read here, ranked by how many owners launched it at all. Across all of them it’s 64%.

S4 games
  1. #1Bloons TD 693% of 222
  2. #2Dungeon Defenders93% of 84
  3. #3Orcs Must Die! 285% of 108
  4. #4Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year83% of 125
A11 games
  1. #5Rock of Ages87% of 55
  2. #6Kingdom Rush92% of 36
  3. #7Bardbarian94% of 32
  4. #8The Culling Of The Cows83% of 60
  5. #9Terrorhedron91% of 32
  6. #10Cosmic Dust & Rust90% of 31
  7. #11Particula80% of 75
  8. #12PixelJunk™ Monsters Ultimate85% of 40
  9. #13GemCraft - Chasing Shadows84% of 38
  10. #14Super Sanctum TD87% of 30
  11. #15AI War: Fleet Command82% of 39
B18 games
  1. #16CastleStorm81% of 31
  2. #17Dome Keeper73% of 93
  3. #18Defense Grid: The Awakening78% of 36
  4. #19Commando Jack77% of 35
  5. #20Rock 'N' Roll Defense74% of 50
  6. #21Revenge of the Titans76% of 37
  7. #22Space Run76% of 33
  8. #23Battle Ranch74% of 34
  9. #24Wall World71% of 42
  10. #25Defend Your Life70% of 47
  11. #26Anomaly Defenders71% of 41
  12. #27Bloons TD571% of 31
  13. #28Two Worlds II Castle Defense69% of 32
  14. #29Fortified66% of 56
  15. #30Ancient Planet67% of 30
  16. #31Sanctum 264% of 132
  17. #32Warstone TD64% of 33
  18. #33Kingdom Two Crowns64% of 110
C14 games
  1. #34Mindustry61% of 44
  2. #35Diplomacy is Not an Option60% of 40
  3. #36The Last Spell59% of 32
  4. #37Space Run Galaxy59% of 34
  5. #38Kingdom: New Lands59% of 91
  6. #39Legion TD 254% of 35
  7. #40Orcs Must Die! 356% of 62
  8. #41Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break54% of 39
  9. #42Rock of Ages 253% of 49
  10. #43Sanctum53% of 70
  11. #44Heretic's Fork49% of 49
  12. #45Orcs Must Die!51% of 77

And 2 more: Go Home Dinosaurs!, Nordhold.

D10 games
  1. #48The Riftbreaker41% of 44
  2. #49Dwarfs!?36% of 36
  3. #50Dungeon of the ENDLESS™49% of 158
  4. #51X-Morph: Defense42% of 62
  5. #52Ultimate Zombie Defense33% of 90
  6. #53Yet Another Zombie Defense HD33% of 97
  7. #54Cubetractor13% of 40
  8. #55Fluffy Horde10% of 40
  9. #56World Crafter TD9% of 54
  10. #57Aegis Defenders19% of 90

Counted from the Steam libraries read here, by the hours Steam has on each game; free games are left out, since Steam lists one as owned only once it has been played. A game owned in only a few libraries is pulled toward the kind’s 64% as if 60 more owners had played it like the typical one, so a lucky handful can’t top the list. S is the top 8%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the next 25%, D the rest.