Defense Clicker
Early access since Oct 2017
Defense Clicker is an clicker game which will be soon F2P, with an tower defense theme and a few twists which make it very unique. You have to build an defense line with towers and upgrade them to stay alive as long as possible. when you die the map resets but you get a few special points depending on how long you survived.
73% positive · 172 reviews
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Still in early access
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Not yet
Still in early access
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Defense Clicker entered Steam Early Access on October 31, 2017 and received regular updates throughout 2018 and into early 2019. On March 18, 2019, the developer posted a clear statement explaining they were wrapping up work on the game: online features were being removed due to server costs, the team had changed, remaining beta content (new mobs, pets, etc.) would be folded into a final build, the game would become free-to-play, and — critically — "there won't be any more patches until further notice." Shortly after, on March 27, 2019, the developer confirmed the free-to-play transition would go live on March 29, 2019, and thanked the community for their support.
Despite this, the game has remained in Early Access status on Steam as of today, June 27, 2026 — it never received a formal 1.0 launch. The developer's own statement from March 2019 made clear that active development had ended and no further patches were planned. Both released DLC items shipped in October–November 2017. There have been no developer communications since March 2019, which is consistent with the declared end of development activity.
The game is effectively in an abandoned Early Access state: the developer publicly wound down development over seven years ago, online features were removed, and no 1.0 release was ever made. The store page still carries the Early Access label.
Evidence
Developer confirmed the game and its DLCs would become free-to-play on March 29, 2019, and thanked the community for their support, with a note to check Discord 'in a few months' — the last official communication from the developer.
Developer announced they are finishing work on Defense Clicker: online features removed due to server costs, team changes prevent continued development, remaining beta content will be implemented, game goes free-to-play, and 'there won't be any more patches until further notice.'
Content
2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Albatros Softworks
Achievements
315
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Defense Clicker is an clicker game which will be soon F2P, with an tower defense theme and a few twists which make it very unique.
You have to build an defense line with towers and upgrade them to stay alive as long as possible. when you die the map resets but you get a few special points depending on how long you survived. With this points you can upgrade the power of your towers and many other things to stay longer alive. After a specific count of kills you can evolve to get stronger and beat more waves.
Features:
- Build towers
- Upgrade towers
- Upgrade several skills
- several gamemodes
- Weather System
- Day Night System
- Monster Stat Changes depending on Day/Night and Weather System
- Achievements
- Heroes
- Pets
- many more
BUILD towers:
- Build several towers to defend your city against the monsters which want to destroy it
Upgrade towers:
- Upgrade your towers to make more damage, get higher possible towerlevels and stay longer alive
Upgrade several skills:
- reset your game status to get Prime Points to upgrade your baselive, towerbasdamage, gold income and several other things.
Several gamemodes:
- Normal mode and rage mode, fusable monsterlife and changable monster spawn difficulty
Weather system:
- randomly it starts to snow or rain ingame which changes at some montsers the hp, speed.....
Day-/Night system:
- The day night system changes slightly the darkness of the game
Reset and Evolution sytem:
- Reset your game to get the locked Prime Points with which you can earn Prime points to increase some reset resistant skills.
- If progress starts to get to slow make an evolutuion and reset the whole game (except evo skills) and buy evo to get much stronger.
Highscores, Achievements and more:
- Get Achievements for playing the game and beat the highscores of the other players
You have to build an defense line with towers and upgrade them to stay alive as long as possible. when you die the map resets but you get a few special points depending on how long you survived. With this points you can upgrade the power of your towers and many other things to stay longer alive. After a specific count of kills you can evolve to get stronger and beat more waves.
Features:
- Build towers
- Upgrade towers
- Upgrade several skills
- several gamemodes
- Weather System
- Day Night System
- Monster Stat Changes depending on Day/Night and Weather System
- Achievements
- Heroes
- Pets
- many more
BUILD towers:
- Build several towers to defend your city against the monsters which want to destroy it
Upgrade towers:
- Upgrade your towers to make more damage, get higher possible towerlevels and stay longer alive
Upgrade several skills:
- reset your game status to get Prime Points to upgrade your baselive, towerbasdamage, gold income and several other things.
Several gamemodes:
- Normal mode and rage mode, fusable monsterlife and changable monster spawn difficulty
Weather system:
- randomly it starts to snow or rain ingame which changes at some montsers the hp, speed.....
Day-/Night system:
- The day night system changes slightly the darkness of the game
Reset and Evolution sytem:
- Reset your game to get the locked Prime Points with which you can earn Prime points to increase some reset resistant skills.
- If progress starts to get to slow make an evolutuion and reset the whole game (except evo skills) and buy evo to get much stronger.
Highscores, Achievements and more:
- Get Achievements for playing the game and beat the highscores of the other players
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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