Castle Creator
- March 24, 2020
- Bottom Feeders
Get on Steam"Castle Creator" is a game that allows you to design and build your own castles in first person and top down views. With an extensive library of assets and resource management, players must balance growing food, mining resources, and collecting taxes to construct their dream fortresses, dungeons, and manors. Keep your populace fed and satisfied while expanding your domain to create the ultimate kingdom.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game has great graphics and an appealing art style that many players love.
- There is potential for a relaxing building experience, especially for fans of resource management games.
- Some players appreciate the depth of building and management mechanics, indicating that the game could be enjoyable with further refinement.
- The game is currently unplayable due to clunky controls, lack of a proper tutorial, and numerous bugs.
- Many players feel the game is unfinished and not ready for release, with some suggesting it should have been in beta.
- There are significant issues with user experience, including confusing mechanics and a lack of clear objectives, leading to frustration.
- gameplay14 mentions
- 21 % positive mentions
- 57 % neutral mentions
- 21 % negative mentions
The gameplay is criticized for being unintuitive and lacking proper tutorials, making it difficult for players to understand the mechanics and controls. While the game offers deep building and management features that could provide extensive playtime, the absence of clear instructions may deter many players from fully engaging with what could be a great experience. Overall, the game feels unfinished and frustrating, despite its innovative approach to gameplay.
“If I knew what I was doing, I would probably put hundreds and hundreds of hours into this game as the building, decorating, and management are all very deep and are above most others of this type. But without some basic mechanics explained, I feel most people will walk away from what could be an amazing builder!”
“I think if you are into pure building and enough game mechanics to make it feel worth it, then you will definitely be happy picking this up.”
“They have done something fantastic with moving away from the tired, played-out mechanics of similar games, but in doing so, figuring out how the game works can be pretty brutal.”
“But the actual game is a completely unplayable mess, with horrible mechanics and controls and no tutorial or proper instructions.”
“Gameplay is not intuitive, and I'm not sure that the tutorial makes anything better... this game is not ready.”
“But it is lacking a great deal in its user experience, being quite obtuse in its interface and mechanics.”
- graphics6 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 67 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The graphics are highly praised for their quality, featuring an impressive build style and appealing aesthetics that enhance the overall gameplay experience. Players appreciate the visual elements that complement the focus on castle construction and resource management.
“Great graphics, awesome build style, cool concepts, and a focus on building, not necessarily management outside of what you need to generate to continue building.”
- grinding2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect of the game frustrating, particularly due to the need to restart multiple times—up to 12 in just 36 minutes—because of unclear mechanics, such as the importance of building a correctly sized castle and having a bed for progression. This lack of guidance leads to a tedious experience that detracts from overall enjoyment.
“If you make your initial castle too big, you have to restart. If you don't realize you need a bed to progress through sleep, you have to restart. It might not be a huge problem, but it gets super annoying and grindy to have to restart 12 times in a 36-minute playtime due to having no idea what's going on.”
