Dungeon Defenders

Dungeon Defenders is a tower-defense action RPG set in Etheria, where you create a hero to protect the land from an Ancient Evil. Choose from four character classes, summon defenses against waves of enemies and fight alongside them directly. You can play alone or join up to three other players in online or local split-screen co-op, combining local and online players and letting players join or leave at any time. You can also compete in PvP Deathmatch.

Heroes and defenses

Each class has its own skill tree, towers and basic attacks. The Huntress can turn invisible and plant traps behind enemy lines, while the Squire can block choke points and fight foes at close range. You customize and level your character, skills, equipment and towers, improving individual stats such as hit points, attack rate and damage.

Loot and progression

Defeated enemies drop money and items that you can trade or store in your Item Box. Kills and completed waves earn experience, and you can spend it to improve your characters, skills, equipment and towers. Store excess money in the Mana Bank to improve equipment or trade with other players. You can display equipment in your Adventurer’s Tavern, where it cannot be stolen.

Pets assist you in Etheria, each with distinct behavior. You can level and customize them to suit your play style, and trade them online. The secure trading system also lets you exchange weapons and armor with other players online.

Enemies and missions

More than 100 enemies can appear at once, and gigantic Boss Monsters attack during major fights. Foes include Orcs with huge axes, Dark Elves that strike from the shadows and kamikaze goblins. Each level has its own visual setting, layout, enemy types, traps and surprises.

You can take your hero through four difficulty modes, survival missions, challenge maps and other mission types. Some maps require mobile defenses to guard a crystal that warps around the map; in others, you attack enemy encampments.

Track your records

The game records every shot, kill and defense you build. Charts and graphs let you review team performance after each session, check your best stats for each level and compare your data online with other players. Achievements appear in your Adventurer’s Tavern, and worldwide leaderboards rank the highest scores for each hero.

Create new missions

Dungeon Defenders includes a development kit for creating and editing missions using the game’s assets. You can share user-created levels through Steam Workshop.