Becastled

really fun gameplay, but still a bit unpolished, so expect some bugs and preformance issues

Very fun. Very time consuming. Bigger maps, please.

Quite impressed by the game. I have played it a bit now and it's a nice idea, though there are many bugs.

- Villagers not pathing right
- Enemies not walking the shown path
- Own troops not walking where they are supposed to leading to very annoying loses
- Things not being shown as they should be (invisable walls)

Also there are some annoying things like

- Not being able to see how many excess villagers you have
- Siege weapons being weak as hell
- End wave is way to hard and the AI is bugged and can glitch through walls (friendly and enemy)

All in all I think the game is quite nicely and looks good overall but due to annoying bugs and bad balancing I just cant recommend it yet. Maybe it's something for you guys anyway
Also please do correct me if im wrong on some of the points ty

Fun game, not enough of it to play! but i've not played some of the new updates, so going to dive on today to check it out.

I was always on the lookout for a PvE City-Building game with a Combat System.
Most games, I have found we're mostly really focused on one aspect of the game, Becastled managed to create a nice balance between the City Building and the Combat in Terms of Complexity.
Additionally, the Combat Update made things much more customizable and a bit realistic (referring to the Pikemen).
There is one thing bugging me about the combat is the fact that your formations don't automatically engage the enemies
when they get close enough (I have noticed some cases where they did, i think?), but else i really enjoy this game.
Overall I really enjoy playing this game occasionally, even though i sometimes forget where I left off.

It's nice but has a lot of bugs, mainly when moving troops. There's a lot of QoL changes that could have been done in these 4 years or so

For now not worth it.

IA pathway is always bugged, that lead it to use a tp for debug. Who is a good point.

But this tp is a larger circle arownd the unit and lead them tp on your wall or beind them. Wich lead to the end of your army or to the destruction of half of your base or simpli to the end of your game. Plus the game is unbalenced, im playing in 6 (the hardest), standard resourse.

For now this game is in beta and when this bug will be fixed, i will 100% replay it, for now i am changing of game.

8 game luched - 7 lost because of the debug tp

I enjoy the game. The base building and stuff is fun. I'm overseas for work right now and brought my low end laptop with me. Currently having issues getting the game to launch. For some reason when it loads, a window pops up and it acts as if it is trying to load something and then force closes the game. Other than that, I have no gripes.

Edit: I managed to get it to work after a couple reinstalls. :>

Game its fun, the crafting quite solid, only missing co-op since the way the game it is it would make more sence, reg and horde waves, stuff like that, different skins for your kingdom.

As of 3/29, there's game crash bugs, and some rough edges. Rough edge including... having to flip your walls and towers so the enemy literally doesn't use them when sieging to just walk into your base. It happens. Wait a bit for this game to update.

Fun game deserves more support

Fun little gem of a game. The depth isn't that deep. However you can create your own map which is really cool and play it before you upload it to the workshop. I really like the quality check conditions in-game before your map is ready or playable.

I managed to finish a random map on day 25 after thinking my kingdom was beefy enough, which I guess it was. I didn't use a single siege defense weapon on my towers. Being able to spawn camp the enemy position when the night invasion begins were the biggest factor in winning easy. Hopefully there can be a barrier update to make your defense strategy and castle layout more meaningful.

The largest, god awful headache and frustrating gripe I have, are that you have to manually select your troops, no matter the size (can literally just be a single unit) and click on an enemy target to attack. They will NOT engage or defend for themselves when getting shot at from enemy archers or pursue other infantry, even when they're 2 feet away. You MUST select them to attack. Worst part is, when you do, they will literally just attack the single enemy unit you clicked on. They won't engage the other units that is surrounding your target, thus, making them die before they reach the target. Making any troop you have at level 2-3 go to complete waste. Also, your troops do not march or walk while in formation. This makes pathfinding very awkward and will cause the running animations to completely stop until you give them a new move order.

There is a LOT of potential. Especially with how lacking the research tree is. Hopefully that will be improved with production increase, construction speed, tools for better resource production, etc etc

The graphics are nice and simple. This makes up for having up to 400+ enemy troops on the map at the same time with your 100+ unit count and buildings. I was able to reach 110 army limit before my kingdom upkeep got too much to maintain; forcing me to end the game by finishing off all towers when I feel like I HAD to rather than wanting to. Maintained +90fps the whole game, no stutters or crashes.

Might play again, but knowing how atrocious it is commanding troops, I'll stay away. I've never played an action game where your troops have zero retaliation towards an enemy that's a couple feet away from them while being attacked and killed.

You can get away with just building your kingdom after finishing off the enemy from the map. If you're looking for skirmishes and strategic gameplay, you won't get enjoyment from that aspect.

Overall 6/10 - I got this while it was on sale. The gameplay feels like a chore. I did enjoy it for what it was but it's not worth playing over again.

EDIT: Forgot to mention this but if we play on a map that doesn't feature a river, some tiles will still indicate a fish resource is available there. But it is indeed just a regular land tile. This will destroy the immersion of the map you're playing on and will highlight the tile in a green color telling you that you can place a fishing hut there, when you actually can't. Hopefully that bug is addressed as I've had to start on a new map at least 6 times in a row before I finished my first game.

I had a few hours of fun. it's very enjoyable. love that you can make your own map.
thought i was clever and protected myself with a river all round.. came winter.. enemies just walked over the ice.. EPIC!! :D
Then tried a ring of mountain.. i broke the game.. (i did leave 1 block open so they could reach me.. ) but soo many bugs popped up..


Game has a lot of flaws.. specially pathing.. even after major update.. but seems devs are working hard to fix all of it..
line of sight is an issue.. if enemy is behind buildings/objects your archers freeze.
your archers can't hit enemies if they are on top of mountains.. but enemies never miss when they are down and you are up..
builders cant build on mountain (1 level, 2levels up).. even though there are stairs to climb the levels, they cant reach your buildings.. (troops can climb the stairs though)
please increase the amount of storage your storage facilities can take.. my castle is always flooded with them.

its a nice/fun game. you should buy it.

So buggy

Fun relaxing game, which I am always returning to.

Great game concept ruined by absurd difficulty levels.

The game presents you with a wave of enemies each day that grows progressively stronger. You build your empire and also increase your power over time.

Recently the game was updated with a 'victory' option - destroy four towers on the map to win.

However if you destroy a tower -even on the LOWEST difficulty - the wave at the end of that day will be so powerful that you cannot defend against it. For example, the strength of a normal wave might be '4' or 4 basic units, but the strength of the wave increases to '192' once you destroy the first tower. Insane ....

Very unfortunate that the developers made this unusual decision to make the game unbeatable by just popping on the screen out of nowhere an inexplicable overwhelming tank rush - even on rookie settings. It's poor game design at best when the other elements of the game can be recommended.

Thumbs down from me sorry.

With the newest update if has destroyed the game you can go some nights with out bugs and then your entire game is ruined either everything stops working invisible troops stuck in the ice after it un freezes archers fall off walls down the side of clip and stay there using summon militia causes you to lose not just time but your entire population vanishes mabye next time they can play test their own update before making it live

Great game and great progress.

very fun and stratigic

games pretty solid. needs more content and better military management.

pretty fun tbh

I don't generally enjoy these kinds of games, but this one is definitely the best I've played

New update just dropped, I appreciate the devs commitment to updating this game. I really love the castle building system and the freeform nature of it.

My red flag is a cant use ANY building in the middle becuase the castle wont disappear now for sum reason, i love this game but i hate that feature

yall rly need to lower the expecation for small developers like these guys they put in work and effort in one game and try their best to update it its hard to code it rly is even whit a full team of like 20 people its still rly hard to make a good game (the game is great i rly recommend it and i hope that these guys can make this game even better then it is now thats all from me brother made me refund bcs he dosent like it)

Kinda like StarCraft if it was in ancient times.

It's an enjoyable game. Some UI elements are confusing, like the troop counter. It's not glitchy or buggy so far. Some bits here and there are annoying, like every segment of wall that is at a different level to others has to have its OWN ramp up to it, not sure whether or not this is fixed later on in the game, but so far with wooden walls there is no way to have troops go from one level of wall straight to another via a ramp. They have to go down and all the way around and back up another ramp to the other wall. Very slow and annoying. Happiness is also difficult to keep up.

Bought this long ago and really enjoyed the gameplay, the graphics, the progression etc. But at the time i felt unpolished and crashed too often. I waited for it to be updated and fixed but it's been so long (more than a year) there hasn't been any updates so I can't really recommend this game. Would love to see it more developed though

abandoned no update in almost a year

❤️

Scam

using this box to fill word limit. Game is great and i highly recommend it, also isnt a huge storage hog and for the size it is its comparable to games like rimworld for me in replayability

This game is very good 10/10 Tutorial is very bad tho but the rest of the game is goood

I feel scammed.

walls

A very fun and addictive game!

Scam game by terrible devs

great game and very intresting mechanics

This game has a lot of bugs that need to be fleshed out. The targeting/pathing for the allied soldiers is horrendous, especially when they are placed on walls or towers. When you issue a command they will get stuck or not come down from the tower. Alongside this, if you lose during the night there is no fast forward and you have to either sit around and wait for up to 5 mins or longer and wait for the night to end and kill the enemies or you will have to load a previous save. There is no fast forward button so everything is sluggishly show. If your stone quarry gets destroyed and you don't have the stone to rebuild it you have to destroy it and rebuild it otherwise you are soft locked from stone. The repair system inst great. Troops are wayyyy to expensive for the food cost. Food is very sparse even with the materials turned up. Game sound is extremely loud and i found that if i had the sound nearly off is the best to not having it blast my ears. This game has a lot of potential the bugs just need to be fleshed out. For things like troops, siege machines, and traps i believe these should have their own menu so that you don't have to search your whole kingdom to find these buildings just to create these things. Research cost for the most part is pretty solid, if not a hair to expensive, but i wouldn't focus to much on that. Losing vital building can almost be run ending if you start losing residents. It just becomes a downwards spiral that is not fun to fix. Overall I would give this game a 5/10 with potential of being a 8-9/10. Don't get me wrong this game was fun in the time i played it, but would be much better if there was a focus on polishing the game.

Its sad that I'm here but unfortunately I am. This game was really good for about a year or 2 but in the last year that has been no updates at all. Last thing was a news blog from Oct 29,2024 and that blog was an update of a previous blog from Apr 18. I understand this a Ukrainian and German studio so I know there are conflicts with the team being able to work.

Since the last update (Dec 2023, over a year) they added seasons and I personally think the seasons needs to be toned down. Wither its lightning hitting all of your buildings and catching them on fire, hitting your little amount of units and killing them, or a winter that is brutal and can kill your whole base. Im not against the seasons but I do think they need some tweaking.

Pathing has been an issue since release. They have worked on it some but it still has a long ways to go, Units get stuck, some get unresponsive and wont move, units will get bunched up and trapped on walls and towers, etc. Enemy units can be just as bad and will sometimes not even move when spawned.

Overall I have enjoyed this game and like many others say it is a fun escape from sweaty shooters for a while but sadly with the very slow updates and current bugs in the game, I cant recommend it. I hope the team hasnt abandoned the game and they can start releasing updates again soon because the potential is huge.

great and fun game with a load of content

it was fun for a bit but updates are slow and no workshop so just get it on sale

its a fun game

great game, but it need some serious optimization

i love

its very fun and relaxing but it would be cool to see steam workshop with this game, there could be some very cool ideas with the steam workshop.

ive played for a little bit but when i tried to load in my world it keeps zooming in and out a lot and i cant do anything. if this would stop then it would definitely be a good game.

Fun game to play when you wanna just chill and build a civilization.

I JUST LIKE IT

Lotta fun very stress relieving love this game for a good relaxation from high stress games