A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

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Kingdoms and Castles is a 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.

CITY DESIGN
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.  Send woodcutters to collect wood, set up quarries to build your castles, and farm the land efficiently so your town can thrive.




FORTIFY AND DEFEND
The new land you're settling is at risk of viking invasion. These raiders seek to kidnap and kill your peasants and burn your town to the ground. Use a powerful castle building system 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.





LIVING WORLD
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.


Purchase

Buy Now$14.99 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $14.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

kingdoms-and-castles-win32.zip 475 MB
Version 121r5
kingdoms-and-castles-win64.zip 480 MB
Version 121r5
kingdoms-and-castles-osx-universal.zip 475 MB
Version 121r5
kingdoms-and-castles-linux-universal.zip 475 MB
Version 121r5

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Game seems to crash on my laptop after a certain point in time or when Vikings invade. Can't grab it on steam cos work laptop so limited in what I can use - any fixes?

It's definitely just Vikings. I've played on Peaceful with 0 issues. It can't be their numbers - I've got well over 800 citizens, and before I lost my save due to autosave overwrite was over 1000 citizens. Is the game simply not being updated to the same degree as on Steam or something, so it's missing out on stability patches?

Year 140, over 1000 civilians, Vikings land and the game crashes again. Different laptop that was a lot more stable - game didn't crash at all until now. 

So the only workaround I've discovered is just sitting at 1x until the viking ground forces are gone, otherwise you're praying the machine can handle the size later on.

bro its so gliche

are the downloads updated?

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love it

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I dont need to pay 14.99 dollars per month, right? 

EEZ GEWD

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i have downloaded it and bought it and i dont know how to open it

In order to open it, you need to uncompress it. However, I'm short on time so just find a youtube video on it lol

help me please

i cant get the game can someone please help me with that

never mind

I can't get the game 

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I would love to test beta, too :(

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Buyers on itch unfortunately do not have access to the beta available on Steam. :(

Is it possible to provide itch customers with a steam key?

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Is the alpha going to come to Itch.io? If not, you should provide Steam keys for those of us who supported you on Itch so we can participate in the Alpha as well.

Good game but the update is taking a whil

is there a demo 

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Both Steam and GoG get access to the alphas. Any chance of seeing that here?

good game but the update is taking a while.

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Game sucks you can't even play the game

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This plays really nicely.

I've been gaming for 40 years (not nonstop...)   and often games likes like these present all the right elements, but  have some flaw in the rule set that limit the fun and make you yell in frustration.   This has no such flaws.

  It's very satisying, not hard to learn and is the first game to keep me at the keyboard late into the night  in  along time.

Well done devs.

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Lionshield, I love this game!

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Is there no win condition? Went to year 350 on hardest mode and the number of raiders is insane.

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I think I made a mistake :/. No Steam key?.

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Yes, it would be the first game in Itch.io that comes with a Steam key!. How could I have thought otherwise?.

Thanks for necroing, anyway.

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Excellent game, got this on Steam!

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Good game nice ! Please add turkish lang

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This is a great game, I do not regret that I bought it, I wait for AI with impatience ...! :)