Orcs Must Die! Unchained

Orcs Must Die! Unchained

Robot Entertainment · April 19, 2017 · Free to Play, Tower Defense, Multiplayer, Co-op, Action

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About Orcs Must Die! Unchained

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Team up with friends in this 3-player action tower defense game where you build elaborate trap gauntlets and wield powerful heroes to annihilate invading orc hordes. Customize your defenses with dozens of deadly contraptions, unlock new traps, and compete in multiple modes including cooperative Survival, competitive Sabotage battles, and endless waves of carnage.


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“It’s Orcs Must Die! 3 and much, much more.” – Polygon


“Unfortunately for orcs, it’s better than ever.” – PCGames N


“Unchained undeniably felt like an Orcs Must Die! game.” – Hardcore Gamer



Orcs Must Die! Unchained takes the award-winning Orcs Must Die! action tower defense gameplay to a whole new level with 3-player team-based gameplay! But don’t get cocky, because the stakes are higher, the traps are bloodier, and the invaders are even more ravenous. You’ll need to bring your A-game and a couple of the biggest orc-haters you can find!

Orcs Must Die! Unchained is set in the familiar world of its hilarious fantasy predecessors, years after the finale of Orcs Must Die! 2. With dozens of new rifts and worlds beyond them, heroes have come from far and wide to wage all-out war for control of these magical gateways. In the years since Orcs Must Die! 2, Maximillian and Gabriella have done their best to rebuild the once-mighty Order. Their new enemy, the Unchained, is no longer the mindless horde defeated twice before, but instead an organized army led by its own powerful heroes.


Killin’ Orcs and Smashin’ Dorks

Orcs Must Die!’s classic white-knuckle witch’s brew of action and strategy returns, letting players team up with their friends to lay waste to millions of new invading monsters! Build an impenetrable gauntlet of traps to hack, grind, flatten, gibletize and incinerate foes before they charge into the heart of the rift!


It's Definitely a Trap

The only thing better than building traps for murdering minions is building more traps! Play to unlock traps, then upgrade them to be even deadlier. Players cover fortresses in gleeful torture devices and engineer a variety of hilarious and violent ends for invading minions. Customize a strategy for every battle. The hordes are no match for the powers of elements and physics!


Real Action Heroes

Are you mage enough to defend the rifts? A wide variety of unique and powerful heroes with deep gameplay options offer a plethora of painfully creative ways to stop orcs in their grimy tracks. Old friends Max and Gabriella return to fight alongside a cast of new heroes like Blackpaw, Hogarth, Stinkeye, and Bloodspike. Whether players prefer might and majesty or scum and villainy, there’s a hero for every type of orc-slayer around.


Your Favorite Ways to Slay

Survival mode lets players murder their way to the top of the orc pile in 3-player co-op defense gameplay that every Orcs Must Die! fan will love. Weekly Challenges and Daily Quests give players the chance to unlock extra traps and upgrade parts. Long-time favorite Endless mode has returned in Orcs Must Die! Unchained with expanded 3-player co-op. All new Sabotage mode sets up two teams of three to troll each other with spells and bosses in an action-packed race to the highest score.


All New Sabotage!

Gamers ready for a trap-snapping, spell-slinging, ogre-spudging good time can look no further than Orcs Must Die! Unchained's new game mode, Sabotage! This fast-paced mode is a totally new way to play. Players assemble a team to defend their rift, but at the same time another team is playing on the same map in some… spooky… alternate dimension or something. These other players can distract your team with spells, minions, and huge bosses to make you lose rift points. But of course, players can pay 'em back by doing the same! The team with the most rift points at the end of the match wins.

Orcs Must Die! Unchained — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player, Co-op
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

Orcs Must Die! Unchained in the rankings

What Steam players say

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Recommended Aug 12, 2026
i enjoyed the pvp shame it didnt last.
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Recommended Jul 9, 2026
The best Orcs! game after the first one, no contest. Highly encourage anyone to find a way to play this if they're already a fan of Orcs!, but it's fun for newbies too. Just kinda complicated compared to the mainline games.
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Recommended Aug 30, 2026
Orcs Must Die! Unchained had a great core idea, but I felt it struggled to find the right balance. Orcs Must Die! Unchained was a fun and unusual combination of tower defense and third-person action. I enjoyed experimenting with different traps and characters and figuring out how to deal with increasingly large waves of enemies. However, the multiplayer-focused design and free-to-play elements sometimes got in the way of what made the original games so appealing. Matches could also become repetitive after a while. It's unfortunate that the game was eventually shut down, because the basic concept had plenty of potential.
Not recommended Aug 21, 2026
Unsupported on Linux.
Recommended Aug 2, 2026
Fun game, good nostalgia
Recommended Jul 5, 2026
I like it.

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