Super Sanctum TD

Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the…

90 9 May 2013

Indie Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Action Science fiction

Super Sanctum TD is an indie developed by Coffee Stain Studios, released 9 May 2013 on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Super Sanctum TD is

Super Sanctum TD is an indie game developed by Coffee Stain Studios and released in 2013. It is available on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Coffee Stain Studios AB is a Swedish video game developer based in Skövde. Founded in 2010 by nine University of Skövde students, the company is best known for Goat Simulator, which was released in April 2014, and Satisfactory, released in September 2024. Their parent holding company also operates Coffee Stain Publishing, a publisher, and majority-owns developers Coffee Stain North and Lavapotion. In November 2018, Coffee Stain Holding was acquired by THQ Nordic AB. In December 2025, Coffee Stain spun off from Embracer Group and became an independent, publicly traded company, known as Coffee Stain Group.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Super Sanctum TD holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM and DirectX-Compatible. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Super Sanctum TD launched on 9 May 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Super Sanctum TD yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Quick answers

Super Sanctum TD — frequently asked questions

When did Super Sanctum TD come out?

Super Sanctum TD was released on 9 May 2013 for iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Super Sanctum TD?

At minimum, Super Sanctum TD needs 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, DirectX-Compatible graphics, 100 MB Free Space of storage.

How many GB is Super Sanctum TD?

The PC version needs about 0.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("100 MB Free Space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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