Kingdoms and Castles

Kingdoms and Castles is definitely a trash game... but in the best possible way! It's simple, fun, and strangely addictive. While the mechanics aren’t as deep as some other city-building games, there’s something really satisfying about watching your kingdom grow, managing resources, and defending it from invaders. It’s a relaxing yet challenging experience, and despite its flaws, it somehow has a charm that keeps you coming back. If you're looking for a casual, low-stress city-builder, it might not be the most complex, but it’s definitely fun in its own quirky way. It’s a trash game I can’t help but enjoy!

chill, fun and addicting

I really enjoy the semplicity of this game and if you want something to pass the time with a bit a of challenge this is pretty good.

Now, everything i would like to see:
-A way to automatically balance stuff between depots without going mad with thousands of transport
-A way to spend all your infinite end game wealth, like megaproject or build more land from the see or even see bridges to reach your outposts
-A better UI for horse transports, maybe even a copy and paste function
-Find another way to upgrade walls, after a while gigawalls from aot dont look good
-More variety of the same buildings like a mod does
-A way to ensure all my meat and fish get processed in the respective buildings that isnt building them down the street
-An industrial chain that dosent stop at bread, we could have meat pies or jam pies for exemple
-Something to do with fruit, jam or even making your own brew for the taverns by fermentation
-In game banner maker could be fun
-Different island biomes that allows different produce, for the chains above mentioned
-A better world generator that allows more island to exist
-Smarter AI (year 224 and didnt used the big mines)

An excellent basic mechanics game for anyone wanting to give a try in medieval building sim.

its awesome i dont need to say more if u like messing with stuf or making an empire this is the game for you

Incredibly fun for everyone who enjoys making stuff, while dealing with a multitude of obstacles. I fully recommend this game for those types of people.

Absolutely love this game. I only wish there were a difficulty between hard and survival because survival is BRUTAL.

This is by far one of the best city building games i've had the pleasure of playing. Developers are amazing, game is amazing, would always recommend.

TLDR: Good core game, but not enough content to justify itself. A soft no from me.

I've owned the game for ~6 years. When I bought it, it was fun and showed off the potential of what could be. Unfortunately the glacial rate of updates has left this game in the same state but with a few more bells and whistles: showing off the potential of what could be.

That is even more sad, as there was a blossoming modding community developing... but they all left as the game never made any meaningful progress.

What is here is fun to mess around with, but you will experience the entire game relatively quickly. At that point, you can build out your kingdom... but it's just not that satisfying. And that's probably a good description: there's fun to be had, but the game overall is not satisfying. It's a nice appetizer, but I'm starting to think the entree isn't coming.

Feel free to grab it on sale, but just be comfortable with it being a short term game.

Kingdoms and Castles is a charming city-building game that offers a satisfying medieval experience. Once you get the hang of resource management and city planning, the game moves quickly, making it feel a bit short. However, the blend of castle building, defending against Viking raids, and managing a growing population keeps it engaging.

The art style is simple yet appealing, and the mechanics are easy to grasp while still offering depth. While the game could use more late-game challenges, it has a solid foundation, and I’m excited to see what future updates bring. If you enjoy city-building with a medieval twist, this is definitely worth playing!

Really fun game to play in your free time 100% recommend to those who like simple art styles or city builders.

Nice chill city builder that is easy to understand. Highly recommend, easy to waste a ton of time in.

The game is a very fun and enjoyable city game to play. But beware of thedangersthat lay ahead

I think its a very charming and enjoyable game in my opinion. Would recommend.

It's one of my favorite games of all time!
However the game crashes after a while. I have this problem since before the garden DLC came out.
Im using MacOS Catalina 10.15.7

Time sucker. You will spend a lot of time on here w/o realizing it.
Have never been a huge fan of city builders, but this one is really neat. Fun to organize your city to maintain max happiness whilst expanding. Can be quite a puzzle at times.
Lots of fun.

Over and over again i come back to this game. In the vast ocean of colony sim games this is a 10/10 to me. Enough depth to make you want to optimize but easy enough to be a calm and relaxed experience.

Fun and easy to learn medieval city builder, would recommend.

this game is very cute
the new roman looking one looks really amazing
i wish there were more resources, styles of buildings, enemies
adding mods you can customize with more buildings

Awesome Game, Active Devs. Fun if none of your friends are online. Multiplayer pls devs.

its a nice game just to relax until 50 vikings and 4 dragons invade you

realy a great game, but i hope that this game keep get updates, i been watched thios game since its first released in 2017, i been glazing this game since then, i realy hope this game keep getting more and more update

Pitters out at the end game but it is an enjoyable early to mid game.

Incredibly satisfying and addicting city builder/colony sim with a pretty artstyle and intuitive mechanics. Played several hours straight to get the "Kingdom of the Gods" achievement. Not sure how much more I'll be playing anytime soon since I 100%'d it but I highly recommend it - this is one of the best games in the genre.

you know what sucks? This game has genuine potential. The issue is, the devs have more or less abandoned this game. All the features they promised are going to their new game, Nova roma. If this looks good, I'd recommend getting that when it releases. It doesn't really feel like a finished game. I love it, but damn man, early access for virtually 3 years. Unfortunate

Very fun game. It isn't trying to go above and beyond in terms of mechanics or anything. But the artstyle tells you everything you need to know: Simple to a good degree, easy, and perfected in that way. Awesome game to sit down and just burn time on. Not much to say for a relatively simple game!
Also, custom banners are so cool. Milestopia forever!

I've been playing this game since it launched and have pirated it and bought it on multiple accounts. This game just makes me happy and it runs well/ the mechanics work as intended.

Good game if you like settlement games, fun mechanics and I like that you acctually have to defende against something.

Doesnt stay fun extreeeemly long +-20 hours.

Fun little city builder that doesn't try to do too much. The graphical style is bright and vibrant. Overall i enjoyed building up my cities defences and having them tested with the different levels of waves the game throws at you.

very fun and stretigac game if you have time. My only complaint is that it needs more updates.

just here to say that this game is awesome. the city builder you need to relax, tons of mod and also updates with some new content... thank you devs!

If u like city builders than this game is definatly better than everything otherwise. Because this game is just really pleasent. WARNING, VERY ADDICTING you will be on this game for hours without relizing. Though survival mode is actually pretty hard so if ur a new player than dont go on that diffuculty right away. Still waiting for multiplayer ):

pretty fun and you can choose whether to play in a challenging setting or a relaxing easy builder setting so good game 10/10

Start a game
No knowledge of anything so just start building random houses
Realize i have no resources left
Try to get more resources
Spooky dragon appears
Hope it leaves
It doesn’t and kills all of my villagers
Overall experience 10/10

But real talk a really good rts game with easy enough to understand UI a bit confusing on my part at the start because i was an idiot who just did not listen to the tutorial, defo worth the money

This game is a real way of showing creativity its fun and challenging

It's.....nice. I like the simplicity of it which means i can look away for a minute and it doesn't collapse like factorio or cities skylines. But that is a double edged sword which means that late game is basically non existent so by the time you reach 200 pops you just repeat building the same houses or just make an army, completely trash the ai and then cry becouse now you have to control an AI city which looks like a monkey built it with infinite resources and no happiness.

One of the best building strategy games I played. Love how simple it is to learn but there's always more to learn and you can be as creative as you want. Can't wait for Nova Roma!

I really like the concept of this game, and it gets a lot of things right that could definitely give you a few hours of fun. Unfortunately the game just constantly feels incomplete and unpolished. The mechanics for handling moving goods around your kingdom are clunky, as is the trade system. The military control is laughable and if you want to win a war you're going to have cheese your way through it.

I really want to like this game but piles of little problems like my units trying to stand in a line even though there's a wall in the way, builders not picking a new project when they run out of resources, and just general clunkiness to the game make me unable to recommend it.

Its a nice fun city builder but just doesn't get updated enough.

very fun and relaxing to play as well as a great stratagy game

As far as Kingdom Builder type games go, this one was a fun one. I've played it on both Steam and PS4, getting all trophies/achievements for a total time of roughly 56 hours.

The game is simple but wonderful. You have to manage your kingdom with houses, food, beauty, and even defense. I personally loved the combat as it added an extra spice to the game and another purpose to build walls and fortifications.

Distance from resources was a factor, but I found that if you built basically mini-cities it tended to workout fine. You didn't have to worry about the minor details too much, but managing your people and jobs through priority was a nice way to make it easier on your management. But there were plenty of times where I had to pause and make adjustments to job to make sure the things needed the most were being prioritized while still having enough builders to keep expanding.

Graphics were pretty basic, but colorful and helped make it not feel dull. The designing of the kingdom and the various types of food and benefits also added to the thought process and layouts. I found a simple rectangular layout worked perfectly for the housing area most of the time to maximize benefits.

Overall, I loved playing the game (enough I bought and played it on two different systems). If they added a PS5 version, I'd get it and play again.

In the span of a single weekend, I've found myself playing the game till 2 AM, nearly 3 AM.

Even now I am forcing myself to go to bed because such a simple yet addictive Gameplay loop that is Kingdoms and Castles, to which I grow nervous knowing it's Steam Deck verified, as I own one and use it time to time to game while in bed.

To install this game on the Deck, based on my current experience, I may never sleep again.......so I must choose sleep for my own sake.

Great game, I would definitely play countless hours of this game. Great for city builder and RTS fans.

Played since it was Early Access and enjoyed it every step of its development. Looking forward to the sequel. Fun city building and management sim with a great style.

slightly addicting to build your own kingdom lot of great twist and turns not very hard to learn, very relaxing most of the time

Well worth the price very fun and addicting! They also still put out new content out till this day

Very good game. I 100% it and it was very fun to conquer several islands.

Fun city builder game, simple style works and kinda has a cosy vibe too??

7/10

A fun kingdom management game that can be quite tricky if you play on higher difficulty settings. It's even suitable for a younger audience. My 6 year old really likes the sandbox mode and he's very excited about the coming Dragon Taming update.

Great Game,
-quick to understand and makes you loose the track of Real time,
-Well balanced
-the enemies are actually a threat which means you have to be strategic.
-Not to complicated, no insignificant minority stats or etc.
-easy controls in every aspect.

I only wish there was some way to make the Viking attacks end with some kind of late game counter attack /Raid.