Orcs Must Die! (2011)

Robot Entertainment

PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox 360

3.28 from 555 ratings

2627 members have it in their collection · 19 playing now · 1025 backlogged · 59 wish listed

How long? Main story 8h · with extras 8h · 100% 20h (from 9 logged playthroughs)

Orcs Must Die! is a strategy video game developed by Robot Entertainment. It is a Tower defense game that eschews the traditional top-down view of similar games, instead using a third-person action-oriented viewpoint.
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Details

Developers
Robot Entertainment
Publishers
Microsoft Studios
Genres
Indie, Shooter, Strategy
Themes
Action
Series
Orcs Must Die
Steam
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Release dates

  • Oct 05, 2011 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360

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Rating distribution

5 stars
44
4 stars
167
3 stars
261
2 stars
69
1 star
14
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Luitenant_Gruber

Review Luitenant_Gruber 4/5 · Dec 11, 2022

So much fun!

Orcs Must Die! is a fun game full of action, tension, a great soundtrack, and a good sense of humor. On its own it is just a tower defense game with twenty-four levels where you fight off waves of bloodthirsty orcs and ogres. What makes it unique for me at least, is the real time action in which you can …

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Orcs Must Die! is a fun game full of action, tension, a great soundtrack, and a good sense of humor. On its own it is just a tower defense game with twenty-four levels where you fight off waves of bloodthirsty orcs and ogres. What makes it unique for me at least, is the real time action in which you can place your traps at any time, upgrade your skills, fight off orcs hand to hand and quickly navigating through the map all at once, unlike other tower defense games.

Orcs Must Die! has a little story which is good enough for such a simple game and is filled with lots of jokes and dry humor. It does not take itself too seriously and I like that.

Graphically this game is not that amazing, but it does not need to. Like I mentioned before, the soundtrack is great. It really helps when playing and does add that glorious feeling to the battles. It is one of the better soundtracks I heard in a while.

The controls and mechanics for placing traps are smooth and work perfectly, this might be expected but there are lots of games where the controls ruin the game for you, luckily this is not the case here.

As much fun as this game was, the only problem I had with it, was that it was too easy. Once you master a specific strategy (like placing tar pits, grinders, and barricades) you can practically beat any level without many problems using this same strategy.

Overall, I would recommend Orcs Must Die! It is certainly worth a try.

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Guran

Review Guran 3/5 · Jun 16, 2015

Solid and funny

Fun game, set traps and shoot/slash orcs as they try to reach the rift you are assigned to protect. Overall a funny and slightly different take on the tower defense genre. I just hope that they allow autofire on the crossbow, my finger gets numb from all the clicking!