
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
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New five-mission story chapter with Aftermath DLC
A full story-driven campaign with 21 dynamic maps
Online co-op and player-versus-player multiplayer
Hundreds of replayable challenge mode variants
Large, open-ended levels with multiple strategic solutions
Steam Workshop support and powerful level creation tools
Full voice localisation in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, English, French, and German
Improved widescreen support, stability, and performance.
Defense Grid 2 remains one of the most refined and rewarding tower defence games ever made. With deep strategy, dynamic maps, and endless replayability, it is a true classic. Whether you’re discovering it for the first time or returning to the grid, there has never been a better time to deploy your defences.
A full story-driven campaign across 21 dynamic maps that shift as you play, forcing constant adaptation. This is tower defence with real depth that rewards planning, experimentation, and mastery. Every tower placement matters, and every choice carries weight.
Aftermath adds five large, open-ended story missions that continue the conflict with Fletcher and Governor Tydell. On a distant world where enemies can mind-control their attackers, your mission is to stop future invasions at the source.
This chapter also opens with a fully voiced cinematic that sets the stage for what’s to come. This isn’t just more maps — it’s the next chapter in the Defense Grid universe.=
Play the campaign solo, defend together in online co-op, or challenge other players in competitive multiplayer. With hundreds of challenge mode variations and shifting rules, no two battles play the same. The grid always has a new test waiting.
DG2 now features full voice localisation in Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Spanish, alongside English, French, and German. Text support has been fully updated for the new DLC, widescreen support has been improved, and the launcher has also been upgraded with better news and content access.
The Defense Grid 2 Complete Edition (coming soon!) includes A Matter of Endurance, a fully voiced 30-minute audio drama by Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal. You’ll also receive a 300+ page behind-the-scenes development book and two full digital art books from DG1 and DG2. Jump deeper into the Defense Grid universe.
With its timeless, deep tactical gameplay, competitive and co-op modes, powerful level creation tools, modern updates, and the all-new Aftermath DLC, Defense Grid 2 is more complete, more playable, and more exciting than ever.
If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to jump in — this is it.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Japanese, Korean*, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese*, Traditional Chinese*languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
My all time favorite tower defense game. I loved this game so much I got all of the achievements! The recent DLC that was released was well worth the purchase. I would recommend this game to anyone looking for a tower defense game that you can easily spend hundreds of hours on.
Make more levels!!!! Love this game!!!
我对游戏本身没意见,但是不给语音语言和文本语言分开的选项我就差评。 本地化搞一刀切我就默认你不想花心思本地化只是来走个形式。 何况配音的翻译还不如十年前的机翻。
Game is not saving my progress.
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