

Platforms
- PCJul 20, 2017NAplayscoreNA0 Critics9.014.7K Players
- PlayStation 5Mar 21, 2024NAplayscoreNA0 Critics9.2240 Players
- Xbox Series X|SDec 1, 2023NAplayscoreNA0 Critics9.475 Players
- PlayStation 4Mar 21, 2024NAplayscoreNA0 Critics9.1254 Players
- Xbox OneDec 1, 2023NAplayscoreNA0 Critics9.475 Players
- Nintendo SwitchDec 31, 2024NAplayscoreNA0 CriticsNA0 Players
3 critic reviews · 3 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Overall, Kingdoms and Castles provides an engaging blend of city-building and strategic challenges, offering a rewarding experience for players willing to embark on the journey of building, defending, and expanding their realm.
Jamie Collyer · Mar 18, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Kingdoms and Castles is a charming, relaxing, and easy to play real-time kingdom builder. Using simple polygons and vibrant colors, the game is heartwarming and challenges you to meet the needs of the people while expanding your empire. With a minimal tech tree and clever mechanics such as environmental threats and weather, the only downsides are an incredibly small text size and no real end in sight.
Alexander Thomas · Jul 20, 2017 Reviewed on PCRead full review - A great little game with an amazing aesthetic, but with a lot of ways to grow.
Marcello Perricone · Sep 28, 2017 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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Community Reviews
- Reviewed on PC
- Rated on PC
- Rated on PC
About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
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.
Forge your kingdom's destiny in Kingdoms and Castles, a captivating city-building adventure where your choices define your realm's prosperity and survival.
Developer: Lion Shield, LLC





