The Castle Doctrine is an indie developed by Jason Rohrer, released 29 January 2014 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Castle Doctrine is
The Castle Doctrine is an indie game developed by Jason Rohrer and released in 2014. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Castle Doctrine is a massively-multiplayer game of burglary and home defense. It's 1991, and things are bad. You're a guy with a house and family. Other players are coming to take what's yours. Build security to stop them. Study their houses, buy tools, and break in to take what's theirs. Everything you do is permanent
How it plays
Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer.
How it was received
The Castle Doctrine holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
The Castle Doctrine launched on 29 January 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us: Left Behind, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, The Banner Saga and Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us: Left Behind, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, The Banner Saga, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
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