# The Thing: Tower Defense

Summer DB entity ID: dcb504c7\-b1cc\-4e8a\-ad5f\-e1da89623442

Steam App ID: 549670

With over 50,000,000 plays over the previous parts, the game series has enthralled and challenged many players over the years\. Now you can save your world from darkness in new The Thing\. Bigger\! Faster\! Stronger\!  Join Targa Wrathbringer and Kel Hawkbow on their journey to save Danalor from hordes of monsters, undead and demons\. Find powerful runes, construct armies, upgrade your heroes abilities and battle against epic bosses in this Tower Defense RPG hybrid\.  \[h1\]Highlights:\[/h1\]  \- Survival Challenge \- 50\+ enemies, each with unique abilities and weaknesses\. \- Terrifying bosses that will put you to the test\. \- 8 different heroes to enhance your play, with special attacks\! \- 25\+ game stages and 16 special army upgrades \- 60\+ achievements\. Can you get them all?

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: booblyc, parafeks

- Publisher: Booblyc OU

- Release date: Nov 10, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Action, Indie, Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/549670/ss\_814c55b87033ca8104eed2471a43ba9928f86687\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1574693215, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/549670/ss\_dd9364e0b39b0c01f096b247500096e94674479c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1574693215, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/549670/ss\_f4aa5dff0af6946d435997db495521e845b4ee92\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1574693215, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/549670/ss\_84ea90e91532193866fab0fdc9197e745b1b0778\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1574693215, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/549670/ss\_a4ccd19709799e9d3aa7a97470fa3aae6087f813\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1574693215

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 2

- Steam review count: 79

- Steam positive reviews: 50

- Steam negative reviews: 29

- Steam positive percentage: 63.29113924050633%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/dcb504c7-b1cc-4e8a-ad5f-e1da89623442/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/dcb504c7-b1cc-4e8a-ad5f-e1da89623442/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T16:23:46\.666715\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T16:23:48\.133914\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T16:23:47\.662407\+00:00

Full provenance: \{"urls":\{"price":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/549670/","catalog":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/IStoreService/GetAppList/v1/","details":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/549670/","players":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid=549670","reviews":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/appreviews/549670"\},"price":"2026\-09\-22T16:23:46\.666715\+00:00","source":"steam","catalog":"2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00","country":"US","details":"2026\-09\-22T16:23:46\.666715\+00:00","players":"2026\-09\-22T16:23:48\.133914\+00:00","reviews":"2026\-09\-22T16:23:47\.662407\+00:00","language":"en","editorial":null,"membership":"store\_catalog","observations":\{"price":"8ef541ba\-848c\-474b\-bee5\-3aa49b2de77d","catalog":"2cef1df7\-5313\-4a2c\-996f\-4db733c22bc6","details":"b6d725eb\-0458\-4866\-afdf\-f9583627e7c1","players":"3ca17f72\-42c2\-4f31\-bf71\-865a5688f783","reviews":"d466b3ca\-7e52\-4c76\-8f25\-55b3f90a4563"\},"reviewFilters":\{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}\}

Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"dcb504c7\-b1cc\-4e8a\-ad5f\-e1da89623442","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\}

Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/549670/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/dcb504c7-b1cc-4e8a-ad5f-e1da89623442)