
Rise of the Cones is a tower defense game where a relentless army of cones is marching toward your base. They will not stop. Build towers, shape them with branching upgrades, and figure out how to hold the line.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Aug 10 → 0.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About

Something's coming down the path. Cone-shaped machines. Relentless, endless, and heading straight for your base. Your job: build the defense that stops them.
Enemies follow paths. You place towers freely. Every tower type serves a different purpose; raw damage, crowd control, support, area denial. Knowing when to use what is half the game.

Every tower has 3 upgrade paths, each with 5 tiers.
But you can only invest in 2 paths per tower.
That means every tower becomes a decision: do you go all-in on damage, build a long-range zone controller, or make something weird and flexible?

Earn research points from missions, unlock new towers and upgrades. The further you get, the wilder your builds become.
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Reviews
Themes across 44 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Fun game and easy recommend. Not bringing much "new" to the table, but something "new" is also not what I was looking for. It is a great pretty classic straight up TD game with cool towers, meaningful upgrade paths, good enemy variety, etc. If you're looking for some casual TD that is different enough to be interesting for a while, 100% pick this up. Looking forward to playing it some more.
It's a decent tower defense game. If you like that, you'll like this.
Great potential - a solid TD with different builds.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Neat little tower defense game with crisp 3D graphics and good performance, even on an integrated GPU. Incremental upgrades, thoughtful enemy design, reasonably balanced. Overall, a well-made tower defense game.
I loved it. Fair price, I'd buy it on sale for sure. Pretty fun TD.
I judge a game by how long would it take me to pay for this working a minimum wage job, and has it kept my interest throughout that time period, for games below $21, I think of the Steam refund policy, has this game kept my interest for over 2 hours in one setting... my answer to both those questions is YES. The game won't take you days to complete, but it'll be entertaining enough to warrant the cost. FInished the game, I enjoyed it, money didn't feel wasted, and it feels good to support indie... true indie, not whatever the $&%^ Mixtape is!
Finished the game. Quite enjoyable, nice graphics, I really like the weapon looks update with every upgrade (each tower has 3 different versions). Interesting enemies, and maps (some are famous from old online tower def games). Should be a bit cheaper, as it is too easy, and doesn't have as many maps. I would hope that the dev will add at least 3 more maps. Good work!
Very little content, easily completed by abusable mechanics. Truly not challenging due to the easily accessed upgrades. Game crashes after 50+ rounds and that is unacceptable.
A fun tower defense game!
So, it is a well made game, from a graphics stand point. And the upgrade and tech tree system is standard yet interesting. Still. The game is...Boring. The sounds of the weapons are 'weak'. The explosions are 'underwhelming'. The video on the store page, really does not properly demonstrate, the games 'sound' files.. And there is a severe lack of variety on the part of the 'Cone' vehicles and troops. It is basically an attempt to recreate Defense Zone with more modern 3d modeling envirorment. And DZ series was pretty damn good Tower Defense game... This does not capture DZ's intensity.
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