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Castles cover art

Castles

Quicksilver Software · interplay · 2017-07-14

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AdventureStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: 1992 (Amiga), 1991 (Atari ST/STE), Jul 14, 2017 (Linux), Jul 14, 2017 (Mac), Jul 14, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1992 (Sharp X68000)

Design and build your own castle and defend it in real-time battle.

Castles is a $9.99 Adventure and Strategy game released in 2017, with an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (64% of 14 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

64%
positive of 14 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$9.99
steam price (US)
Castles is a video game developed by Quicksilver and published by Interplay Entertainment in 1991 and 1992. The game involves the construction of a series of castles in Wales and the Welsh Marches during the 13th century. Castles was quickly followed by an expansion, Castles: The Northern Campaign, and a sequel, Castles II: Siege and Conquest.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 125% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 89% of 28,778 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120172025Week of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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