Kingdoms and Castles on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 strategy game developed and published by Lion Shield and LLC.
Released on July 20th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux 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 29,374 reviews of which 27,417 were positive and 1,957 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Kingdoms and Castles into these genres:

City Builder Colony Sim Strategy Medieval Building Simulation Sandbox Resource Management Base-Building Singleplayer Survival Management RTS Economy Action Colorful Relaxing Open World Great Soundtrack Crafting

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

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.

Nov. 2024

---{ 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 10% 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 - depends on you IG ? ☐ 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 it ☐ 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

Sept. 2024

---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Atari ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch video instead ☐ Just don't ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ I'm now deaf ☐ My ears bleeding ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ All ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Toast Machine ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich ☐ Nasa ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isnt 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 ☐ Better than your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ Infinity ---{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 ☐ Cyberbug 2077 ---{?/10}--- ☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5 ☐6 ☐7 ☑8 ☐9 ☐10

Aug. 2024

Honestly, this is a really fun game. It's simple enough to understand and get into, enough content to be engaged in for a while but honestly I would wanna see either Kingdoms and Castles 2 or this game getting a lot more content eventually. I would even buy a content DLC if there was released.

May 2024

I originally bought Kingdoms and Castles on Early Access release many years ago. I had quite a bit of fun with the beta version I played, but it fell to the wayside in my library as I kept amassing more titles. Upon finding out the devs were working on another city builder in Nova Roma, it reminded me that I really should check out the finished version of K&C, to see how it ended up, as I enjoyed the early template. It's a great title, with two vastly different ways to play, I feel. Well, three different ways - but I've only really played two. So the first way is casual mode in peaceful. There are no barbarians, no wolves, no dragons, just you trying to build up your village to the biggest capacity you can. A very serine mode where the hours can just pass you by. Then you have difficulty settings which will turn enemies on, as your population increases, you'll start being attacked by groups of barbarians, or a dragon (or 3), every few minutes. The waves will keep increasing in size as you beat them, and the barbarians even start to bring giant ogres with them to knock down your defenses. I enjoy this mode bit I find it takes away from building aesthetic castles, I find myself just covering my kingdom with giant 2x2 sky towers of doom. If I try to wall anything off, I find myself just wasting resources repairing it every few minutes. I find this goes against why I enjoyed the game in the first place, I like building fancy kingdoms! There is a third way to play, with other rulers building kingdoms. You can have up to 3 other kingdoms in your world, dependant on map size, but I didn't really delve in to this too much, as I found the battling aspect of K&C to be somewhat lacking. I find it excels at being a chill city builder where you can kick back and relax. The game has a rather limited building selection in reality, but don't let that detract from the fun to be had with this title. I was also pleasantly surprised to see it still sits at a low price of £12. Highly recommended title, and I look forward to seeing what the next game brings!

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14.79€

9.1

27,417

1,957

Online players

339

Developer

Lion Shield, LLC

Publisher

Lion Shield, LLC

Release 20 Jul 2017

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