Castles Reviews

ITS A CLASSIC GAME WITH A STORY SYSTEM

Just like the original, it freezes and crashes as soon as your about half way through building your castle. Shame.

If you're feeling nostalgic about this game, it's a fun throwback, but very overpriced

one of my fabvotites many years ago. trouble with the currebt interaface

A game for the past. The main problem I have with the game is the tedoius things I have to do over and over. After each attack. you have to reassing all the laborors. You are constantly interupted by messangers while you are doing actions. It may have been great int he 1990's, but not worth buying today. Totally disappointed!

Pure nostalgia. It might be a harder game for a new player to approach as it certainly shows it's age from the 90s. I was very young when I played this game but remembered it fondly so I was excited to see it make it on Steam. For the price, I would wait for it to be on sale. $10 is a steep price for new players to experience the game.

This has been one of my favorite games since it first came out. I love the game enough that paying $10 to have it on Steam was worth it to me. You can easily get it for free online, but this prepackaged DOS box and being able to play without having to mess with configs to get it working is always nice. If you've played it before or really really love castle building games, it's worth it. Keep in mind, it is a game from 1991. I did have one crash mid-game, but as long as you are saving regularly, this will have little to no impact. One bonus, the save/load function in this version seems to work better than it did in the original game. I ran into several issues with the original release with saves not actually saving after a crash or exit, but this version doesn't seem to have that issue. SIDE NOTE: For reference I'm running Windows 10. I noticed one other reviewer mentioned issues with Windows 8.1. I can't speak to how well or poorly this will run on any other OS, but on Windows 10 at least, seems to run fine.

Castles fills me with nostalgia, but the DOSBox version sold here crashes on my Windows 8.1 machine and isn't worth the trouble of trying to troubleshoot beyond what I already have. If you can get it to work for more than thirty minutes at a time or so it might be worth it for you.

Perfect port of an old game. Very old game so don't expect otherwise, but there's a lot of fun if nothing else seeing how well you can mess with the old simplistic path-finding and AI, and it's a reasonably fun game designing castles, managing workers, army, and their wages, and how that effects your budget, and if you turn on "messengers" you get a number of interesting stories that play out during the game. This isn't Medieval Total War though. You have two troop types, archers and soldiers, they're literally 6 pixels, and you can only place them before battle. You can't control them at all once the battle starts, but there is a surprising amount of strategy involved in that, where you put your archers in the castle, how you break up your ground troops and whether you put them inside or outside the castle or in various nooks of your castle so they tend to end up massing around small numbers of enemy troops at the same time. Managing finances is about on par with modern games and adds a reasonable extra layer to the game, The order your build your castle in is important because you will get attacked while it is being built, and you have to prioritize how to get some basic defenses while at the same time thinking long term, and the non-linear stories you get out of the game are actually well written and interesting. It's also only $10. On sale it's practically free. If nothing else it's worth the money just to give it a try.

The price really doesn't match what you are getting. It is exactly the game you played in 1991 and it needs to use DOS box to even play. This should be a dollar game or even freeware at this point.