Defend Your Castle is an arcade, released 12 June 2008 on Nintendo Switch, Wii and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Defend Your Castle is
Defend Your Castle was released in 2008. It was published by XGen Studios. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Wii and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The original version of Defend Your Castle is a Macromedia Flash-based browser game. It requires the player to kill all enemy units before they destroy the player's castle. There are various ways of accomplishing this, such as picking up enemies and throwing them into the air or attacking them with an array of weapons, which are purchased with points gained from the previous level. Players may also use points to repair or fortify their castle.
How it plays
Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Defend Your Castle holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium Dual Core (2 * 2200 Mhz) or AMD Athlon X2 64 2 * 2200 Mhz, 2 GB RAM and GeForce 6800 GT with 256 MB of RAM / ATI Radeon HD 5450 with 512 MB of RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Defend Your Castle launched on 12 June 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company and LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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