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Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city builder, colony sim and resource management game
developed and published by Lion Shield and LLC.
Released on July 20th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 18 languages: English, German, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Turkish and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 30,322 reviews of which 28,199 were positive and 2,123 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 19.49€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Kingdoms and Castles into these genres:
City Builder
Colony Sim
Resource Management
Management
Simulation
Strategy
Sandbox
Building
Base Building
Economy
4X
RTS
Open World
Crafting
Relaxing
Survival
Choices Matter
Medieval
Stylized
Historical
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Kingdoms and Castles:
| UI | Subtitle | Audio | |
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| English | |||
| German | |||
| French | |||
| Italian | |||
| Korean | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Traditional Chinese | |||
| Russian | |||
| Japanese | |||
| Polish | |||
| Dutch | |||
| Norwegian | |||
| Swedish | |||
| Romanian | |||
| Turkish | |||
| Portuguese - Brazil | |||
| Ukrainian | |||
| Spanish - Latin America |
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 2.5GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 256mb or ATI Radeon HD 5670 256mb or Intel HD Graphics 4600
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: OS X 10.10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 256mb or ATI Radeon HD 5670 256mb or Intel HD Graphics 4600
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 2.5GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 256mb or ATI Radeon HD 5670 256mb or Intel HD Graphics 4600
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template Overall a grate game for any medieval colony sim lover
When I want to play a city builder, this is my main go-to. It has everything I want, and nothing I don't. There are supply chains, mutliple food types, defense/militant options, and decoration buffs, but packaged with simple elegance. It is eternal play, not round based. If you like a lot of variation in your building models, and multiple design options, it doesn't really have that I will say. Some of the garden/statue options are nice, but they are a handful at best. Still, I highly reccommend it for the gameplay, very few city-builders stike this nice a level of complexity that is easy to understand. I'm not spending most of my time in pages and alternate menus like a lot fo the genre.
This was one of the first city-builder games I had played, in fact this game was the reason I bought a pc back in 2018. This game has just so much raw gameplay enjoyment for me I believe this is worth almost anyones money. Of course I doubt many people will put more than 100+ hours into it, but it is a game you can always revisit and build your kingdom in a different way. I encourage this for people new to city-builder games and anyone in general.
Pros: You can build actual working castles with walls, gates, towers, and rain arrows on Viking boats like you’re in a movie. Plus the devs never quit – they’re still dropping free updates years later, which is wild. Cons: you kinda see everything the game has to offer in one or two runs. It’s not some 500-hour monster. You build, you defend, you probably die to fire, you start over. But honestly? Starting over is half the fun. For the price of Brunch you get a kingdom to rule and a 90% chance to watch it burn. It’s cozy, chaotic, and weirdly addictive. Not a hardcore strategy brain-burner, more like “I’ll just play 20 minutes” and then it’s 2am. If you like cute games that suddenly get stressful, this is your thing. Go be king. Just… build some wells first. Trust me.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Kingdoms and Castles is currently priced at 19.49€ on Steam.
No, Kingdoms and Castles is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Kingdoms and Castles received 28,199 positive votes out of a total of 30,322 achieving an impressive rating of 9.11.
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Kingdoms and Castles was developed and published by Lion Shield and LLC.
Yes, Kingdoms and Castles is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Kingdoms and Castles is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Yes, Kingdoms and Castles is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Yes, Kingdoms and Castles is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Kingdoms and Castles is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Kingdoms and Castles does not support VR.
Kingdoms and Castles is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 2 DLCs available for Kingdoms and Castles. Explore additional content available for Kingdoms and Castles on Steam.
Yes, Kingdoms and Castles is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Yes, Kingdoms and Castles supports Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Kingdoms and Castles is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Kingdoms and Castles.
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| Steam price | 26 October 2026 19:59 UTC |
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Game modes
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Online players
317
Developer
Lion Shield, LLC
Publisher
Lion Shield, LLC
Release
20 Jul 2017
Platforms
Remote Play