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Castle Story cover art

Castle Story

Sauropod Studio · 2017-08-17

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 17, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 17, 2017 (Mac)

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Castle Story is a $9.99 Indie, Simulation and Strategy game released in 2017, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (65% of 10,654 reviews).

34
playing now
65%
positive of 11k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
51/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
4
Nexus mods (251 downloads)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

34 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Castle Story is a 2017 sandbox and real-time strategy game developed by Sauropod Studio. Funded through the crowdfunding website Kickstarter in 2012, the game launched in September 2013 in early access and was fully released in August 2017.

Trailer

Castle Story trailer thumbnail

Castle Story - Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 34 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 365 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~46/week).
  • · Review velocity up 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 266k–639k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 10,654 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2023-10-16) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
13913920182026Week of 2018-01-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

75122026-09-15 13:00 — 25 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 27 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 19 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 43 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 75 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 20 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 23 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 53 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 25 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 40 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 47 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 27 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 14 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 48 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 35 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 19 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 33 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 32 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 14 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 61 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 60 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 15 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 34 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2842Mar 2013Aug 2026Mar 2013 — avg 42 · peak 307Aug 2013 — avg 2 · peak 12Jan 2014 — avg 200 · peak 1,565Jun 2014 — avg 97 · peak 495Nov 2014 — avg 37 · peak 110Apr 2015 — avg 38 · peak 108Sep 2015 — avg 20 · peak 48Feb 2016 — avg 34 · peak 147Jul 2016 — avg 57 · peak 171Dec 2016 — avg 35 · peak 104May 2017 — avg 26 · peak 65Oct 2017 — avg 97 · peak 230Mar 2018 — avg 77 · peak 200Aug 2018 — avg 73 · peak 143Jan 2019 — avg 82 · peak 215Jun 2019 — avg 80 · peak 213Nov 2019 — avg 78 · peak 204Apr 2020 — avg 80 · peak 163Sep 2020 — avg 53 · peak 119Feb 2021 — avg 73 · peak 184Jul 2021 — avg 71 · peak 185Dec 2021 — avg 56 · peak 156May 2022 — avg 47 · peak 110Oct 2022 — avg 43 · peak 114Mar 2023 — avg 51 · peak 152Aug 2023 — avg 43 · peak 85Jan 2024 — avg 66 · peak 181Jun 2024 — avg 54 · peak 197Nov 2024 — avg 48 · peak 159Apr 2025 — avg 42 · peak 101Sep 2025 — avg 44 · peak 115Feb 2026 — avg 43 · peak 99Jul 2026 — avg 33 · peak 76Aug 2026 — avg 37 · peak 89
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$2.492015-01-012026-04-202015-01-01 — best price $16.992015-05-10 — best price $13.992015-11-25 — best price $16.992016-07-04 — best price $19.992017-01-12 — best price $16.992017-07-03 — best price $16.992017-10-26 — best price $17.492017-12-15 — best price $14.992018-06-22 — best price $14.992018-09-24 — best price $24.992018-12-20 — best price $12.492019-05-19 — best price $10.002019-07-10 — best price $24.992019-10-28 — best price $14.992019-12-03 — best price $14.992020-01-23 — best price $9.992020-03-23 — best price $12.492020-06-28 — best price $7.492020-10-29 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $7.492021-02-15 — best price $24.992021-10-28 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $24.992022-07-07 — best price $24.992023-01-05 — best price $24.992023-10-09 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $2.492024-03-11 — best price $9.992024-05-27 — best price $2.492024-07-22 — best price $9.992025-07-02 — best price $2.492025-09-08 — best price $9.992025-11-24 — best price $4.992026-01-26 — best price $9.992026-04-13 — best price $4.992026-04-20 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1522026-06-02 — 10 pageviews2026-06-06 — 6 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-14 — 10 pageviews2026-06-18 — 14 pageviews2026-06-22 — 9 pageviews2026-06-26 — 5 pageviews2026-06-30 — 2 pageviews2026-07-04 — 6 pageviews2026-07-08 — 10 pageviews2026-07-12 — 11 pageviews2026-07-16 — 8 pageviews2026-07-20 — 9 pageviews2026-07-24 — 7 pageviews2026-07-28 — 9 pageviews2026-08-01 — 10 pageviews2026-08-05 — 9 pageviews2026-08-09 — 12 pageviews2026-08-13 — 10 pageviews2026-08-17 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 7 pageviews2026-08-25 — 7 pageviews2026-08-29 — 8 pageviews2026-09-02 — 9 pageviews2026-09-06 — 8 pageviews2026-09-10 — 4 pageviews2026-09-14 — 7 pageviews2026-09-18 — 10 pageviews2026-09-22 — 8 pageviews2026-09-26 — 6 pageviews2026-09-30 — 6 pageviews2026-10-04 — 7 pageviews2026-10-08 — 3 pageviews2026-10-11 — 15 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
49.2%
earned "Settling down"
4.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam Achievements1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, French

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-01-25 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,4262%12

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RTSCo-opIndieSandboxBuildingCraftingStrategySurvivalColony SimOpen World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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