Defense of Egypt: Cleopatra Mission

Strategy· Adventure· Tower Defense· Action

Released Sep 2016

Defend the land of the Pharaohs. Build towers, unleash powers, and hold the line in Ancient Egypt.

78% positive · 179 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

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Done

All announced content has been released

Medium confidence

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Evaluation

Defense of Egypt: Cleopatra Mission launched on September 29, 2016 and received a handful of patches in the weeks following release, including balance adjustments and bonus levels. The most recent update directly referencing this game appears to be a March 23, 2020 patch that added new levels and fixed bugs. Since then, the developer's news posts have shifted entirely to announcements and updates for their other games — 1812: Napoleon Wars, Critical Damage, and Lawless West — with no further communication about Defense of Egypt itself. The developer's last post of any kind was on April 29, 2023, but that post concerned Lawless West exclusively. The store description presents the game as a self-contained experience with sixty missions and no mention of ongoing or future content. There are no unreleased DLC listings and no developer statements indicating additional content is planned. The game appears to have shipped as a finished product and received minor post-launch maintenance before the developer moved on to other titles.

Evidence

Another patch adding new levels and bug fixes, which appears to be the final update for Defense of Egypt before the developer's communications shifted to other games.

news post · Mar 23, 2020 source content shipped

medium

Update added new levels, Chinese Simplified language support, improved level balance, and minor bug fixes — one of the last updates referencing Defense of Egypt directly.

news post · Mar 12, 2020 source content shipped

medium

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Details

Developer

First Games Interactive

Publisher

First Games Interactive

Achievements

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Platform

Windows, macOS

Controller

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Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

Tower Defense Strategy Action Adventure 2D Tactical Fantasy Casual Cartoon Cartoony Action-Adventure Indie RPG War

About this game

Defense of Egypt: Cleopatra Mission takes you to a land where the desert wind carries the sound of war. Under the burning sun and the gaze of the gods, every stone tower and bronze weapon becomes a shield for your people.

Across sixty missions you will fight on shifting dunes, riverbanks, and sacred temples. Sixteen enemy types march against you: infantry charging the gates, war machines grinding forward, raiders from the skies and ships rising from the Nile.

You have six kinds of towers to build and upgrade, each with its own strength. Five special mechanisms can twist their power even further, turning a simple defense into a deadly machine. And when the horde presses too close, you can intervene yourself: call down lightning, hurl grenades, or scatter deadly traps to break the assault.

Every battle is a choice: do you play carefully, testing every path, or strike boldly and risk it all? The world of Ancient Egypt gives familiar tower defense mechanics a vivid tone—sun, sand, stone, and steel.