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Kingdoms and Castles

Begin with a small settlement and develop it into a kingdom. Plan where homes, farms, workshops, and civic buildings go while managing villagers’ needs, including food, housing, health, and happiness. Gather and distribute resources such as wood and stone, assign villagers to jobs, and prepare food for winter. Set taxes to fund your kingdom, and use trade, alliances, or war to deal with neighboring AI kingdoms. Protect your settlement from Viking raids, dragons, and other dangers. Build castles from placeable blocks, arranging walls, towers, and weapons to defend your people as the seasons change.

Grow a medieval hamlet into a kingdom by balancing villagers and resources, building castles, and defending against raids.

Released 20 Jul 2017

94%positive of
31k player reviews

$19.99

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Colony Sim

RTS

Stack Castle Walls

Repel Viking Raids

Defend Against Dragons

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Developed by Lion Shield, LLC · Published by Lion Shield, LLC

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Players Praise Most

Relaxing City Building
Easy to Learn
Satisfying Castle Building
Charming Art Style

Common Player Critiques

Limited Late Game
Repetitive Gameplay
Few Building Options
Shallow Diplomacy

94%

positive of 31k player reviews

From the Devs

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle.

Your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world. Do the viking raiders make off with your villagers? Or are they stopped, full of arrows, at the castle gates? Does a dragon torch your granary, your people dying of starvation in the winter, or are you able to turn the beast back? The success of your kingdom depends solely on your skill as a city and castle planner.

Strategically layout your town to improve your peasants' happiness and to attract new residents. Tax them just enough to fund your castle. Make sure your peasants are fed in the winter and healed of plagues. Build churches to keep them from despair and taverns to keep them happy. You can even throw festivals if you've built a town square! Send out wood cutters to collect wood, set up stone quarries to build your castles, and farm the land efficiently so your town can grow and thrive.

The new land you're settling is at risk of viking invasion. These raiders seek to kidnap and kill your peasants, steal your resources, and burn your town to the ground. Use a powerful castle building system where castles are constructed using blocks which can be placed anywhere. Towers and walls are dynamically created based on how you stack and arrange them. Archer towers and other weapon emplacements have longer range the higher their tower. Try different layouts to best protect your kingdom and express your glory as a king or queen.

And it all takes place in a beautiful dynamic world with a stylized procedural cloud system and season cycle from summer to winter. A realistic tree growth algorithm simulates the forests. Depending on your needs, wood cutters can clear cut or responsibly manage your forests.

Kingdoms and Castles is the first Fig funded game to be released. Its crowd funding campaign succeeded with 725% of its goal and was supported by 1,400 backers. Supporters of the game could both pledge and invest during the Fig campaign.

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements	12
Age ratings	ClassInd (Brazil) 10 — Violência fantasiosa IGRS (Indonesia) 15 — Rokok dan/atau rokok elektronik, minuman beralkohol, narkotika, psikotropika, dan/atau zat adiktif lainnya Kekerasan Steam (Germany) 6 — Alkohol / Tabak Fantasy-Gewalt
Controller support	Xbox
Controller required	No
DLC / extras	2 listed on Steam
Website	Official website