Temple Trashers

Temple Trashers

Hackerspace NTNU · November 25, 2022 · Action, RTS, Tower Defense, Action RTS, Twin Stick Shooter

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About Temple Trashers

✦ AI summary

Temple Trashers is a couch co-op tower defense game where you build turrets to battle endless enemy waves, but those same towers can blast you and your friends just as easily as they blast foes. Collect crystals to upgrade your defenses in this chaotic, physics-based twist on tower defense that's best played with friends and controllers.

Temple Trashers is a couch co-op tower defense game, in which the towers you build can hurt you and your friends just as much as they can hurt your enemies. Build towers, aim them towards your foes and collect the crystals that drop in order to build more turrets and survive the endless hordes of enemies!

You can play both: alone or with friends, with keyboard or controller, but we do recommend friends and controllers :)
The only limit to the amount of players able to play at the same time is the amount of controllers and/or friends you have!

The game is developed by a group of volunteer students from the Hackerspace NTNU student organization over the span of 2 years. The game is open-source and 100% free!
Want to contribute, give feedback, report a bug or even just peek at our code? Head over to the official github page!

For other projects and information, take a look at Hackerspace's website.

Temple Trashers — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player, Co-op, Split screen
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Temple Trashers is a tower defense co-op game with an interesting concept that players find engaging in short bursts, though opinions are divided on its staying power. While some appreciate it as a fun experience with solid fundamentals for a student project, others find it becomes repetitive quickly and lacks the polish of a professionally developed title. Players seem to view it as a worthwhile casual experience, particularly if you enjoy cooperative tower defense gameplay, though it may not hold interest for extended play sessions.

Recommended Jan 1, 2023
If you only keyboard gamer, just follow this message Key P show controller instruction Key AWDS for move Key E enter or fix Key R build trap Key M rotate trap (up down left right)
5 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 3, 2023
[h1]Before I played Temple Trashers, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
1 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 29, 2022
A really interresting game with a really great consept. It still has a few points to polish, but still a full game experience without too many bugs. (Its opensource and open to pullrequests.) In all a fun experience.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 27, 2022
good game
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 27, 2022
generic tower defense co-op game gets quite boring after 5 minutes do no recommend
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 16, 2025
"Temple Trashers" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from Hackerspace NTNU in Norway. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. The students made a fairly simple co-op TD with friendly fire... it wasn't particularly successful, mostly because it's locked down to console peasant kids toy gamepads rather than KB+M, has poor graphics, lack of polish, and lack of decent customisability. The "friendly fire" gimmick adds something new, but nothing remarkable. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low qua…

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