Castles
Castles is an indie Match 3 puzzle game. Featuring three modes of play (story, versus and survival) the game can be enjoyed individually or as a multiplayer. With more than 50 levels of randomized gameplay in…
Castles is an indie, released 9 October 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Castles is
Castles was released in 2015. It was published by BadLand Publishing. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Castles tells the story of the ambitious King Harold, whose greatest achievement will be the tower you are constructing. As the tower grows taller and taller, more and more challenges arise along with it. Unpredictable weather combined with the efforts of the jealous and vengeful King Edmund, King Harold's nemesis, may thwart your upward progress.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Castles holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Castles launched on 9 October 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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