- Le Château Soundtrack is OUT NOW! - 15 April 2024
👑Greetings Kings & Queens👑 Really exciting news! Le Château's soundtrack is now available to buy on Steam. 16 songs. All chill and cozy vibes. So, if you want to support the composer, Icoso. This would be the way! This directly goes to him :D You can find it here: Enjoy! TheShelfman
- Update 1.0.5 - 13 April 2024
- You can now drag-place objects
- Quality of Life and a new tile! - 3 April 2024
Hey everyone! Thanks so much for the love this past week. Launch has been great. I've added some new features that I thought would be really cool! Changes: Added screen mode and resolution options Added Discord and Twitter button (yes I chose the bird icon) Added a 7% chance of a sword appearing inside the rock object Added new water object: river corner Fixes: Color palette button now has a proper description (translated as well)
- April Fools Update (can be disabled) - 1 April 2024
Hello Kings & Queens, It is April Fools today, so I figured to celebrate the 1 week since launch for Le Château, I would make this super cozy experience temporarily a super intense experience; a clicker game. Place buildings like how you always would. But...keep clicking them...because otherwise they will slowly shrink >:) Enjoy! (it can be disabled by pressing the enabled button in the bottom left! happy building!) TheShelfman
- Update 1.0.2 - 28 March 2024
Changes: Tutorial step about achievement panel no longer blocks the button text preview at the bottom of the screen Fixes: Fixed Color palette button staying in place rather than moving to the edge of the screen Fixed achievements sometimes not being recognized and therefore unlocking tiles (I really hope it’s been fixed!) Fixed Ocean Time achievement tiles already being unlocked from the start Fixed 11 tile world achievement unlocking 9, 7, and 5 tile world achievement as well (same for 9 unlocking 7 and 5, and 7 unlocking 5)
- Build tiny castles in another new relaxing diorama-em-up, out now - 27 March 2024
I approve of the recent trend towards making building games as relaxing as possible (e.g. Summerhouse ). Today sees the release of a new one on Steam, this one a teeny medieval city builder called Le Château that gives you strict limitations for building a castle. You can have a go of the demo for free - I like it a bunch. Read more
- Update 1.0.1 - 26 March 2024
Changes: Changed stable default rotation by 90 degrees Changed default order in which objects is shown After placing an object, it no longer automatically switches to the next object in line Added a sound that plays with every tutorial step popup Tutorial step on rotating the world now requires you to rotate the world twice When it’s raining, the background is now darker, and there’s a 50% chance that the lighting is also darker Added button that allows you to change the current color palette Fixes: Screenshot button is now also available after build is finished Rain sound effect now loops Snow sound effect now loops Fixed worlds looking weird when spawning tiles on a rotated world in the tutorial Fixed 1 tile circle world build animations not working
- Le Château is OUT NOW! - 25 March 2024
👑Greetings Kings & Queens👑 This is super exciting. Le Château is available to play right now! Build the kingdoms of your dreams on tiny, cozy islands, and watch as your world comes to life! Sit back, relax, and enjoy the casual vibes, and beautiful soundtrack This is a super cozy game that's all about relaxing and was made to allow players to have a chill building experience, where they could just explore their creativity with their kingdoms. It's all yours now, and I look forward to seeing your beautiful creations. Enjoy, TheShelfman
- Le Château arrives on March 25th! - 29 January 2024
👑Greetings Kings & Queens👑 Exciting news! Le Château has a release date! You'll be able to build your tiny medieval kingdoms on March 25th 2024!🏰 I am super excited for you all to get your hands on this game, and show off your creative kingdoms. All that's left to do for me is to make sure the game doesn't break before then! You can check out the new trailer for the game here: Thank you all so much for the support. It'd mean a lot to me if you could share this and wishlist the game if you hadn't already. I'll see you all very soon! TheShelfman (For anyone that has seen this post before the change, the release date has been pushed back 2 weeks because of the major Steam sale that was really close to the initial release date. I didn't know, so this is the best solution! Sorry)
- Le Château is Feature Complete! - 7 December 2023
👑Greetings Kings & Queens👑 Exciting news! Le Château is feature complete! Technically it has been for a little while, but I’ve somehow managed to add new stuff to the game consistently. Stuff like localization for 7 languages, new water tiles, exciting visual upgrades, a chance for a snowy world, birds flying across the screen (I promise they won’t poop all over your castle), and in-game achievements to unlock all the tiles in the game! I’m super excited to finally share this game with you, but I’m not done yet! The game still requires more polish, and apparently a whole lot of bugfixing. After the first playtest done by the community, I was confronted with about 20 bugs alone. Some tiny bugs that took a few minutes to fix, others days. I have no doubt there’ll be more bugs to fix still. Besides that, I still have quite a bit of marketing work to do. About a month for just that would…
- Le Château Free Demo Out Now! - 9 October 2023
👑Greetings Kings & Queens👑 Starting now, Le Château has a free demo to play for you OUT NOW! Build the kingdoms of your dreams, and do so without any challenges or stress whatsoever. You can share feedback from within the game by pressing the "Report bug" button, or open a discussion through Steam! Can't wait to see all the cool kingdoms you'll be creating. Don't forget to share them with me. You can reach me on Twitter (X???) @TShelfman Feel free to ask any questions, I'll gladly answer them! 🏰King Shelfu out (I still don't know how I feel about that)
- Le Château on Steam Next Fest - October 9 - 28 September 2023
👑Greetings Kings & Queens👑 Special announcement today! Development has been going strong, and some cool new features have been added, but even better is that SOON™ you'll be able to experience them yourself! Le Château will be taking part in the upcoming Steam Next Fest where upcoming games are celebrated by having thousands of demos available to play. This means that Le Chateau will have a demo of its own! I've been working hard to make it happen (and to see what even works as a demo for a game like this one), and in the end I decided to make it come down to this: 1 hour of playtime (it's a lot, I believe, so you should be fine! Infinite just seemed too much for this game) 2 out of 3 world shapes are available 20 available tiles (17 of which will have to be unlocked by playing: specifics will be shared through a guide probably) This should all be enough to allow you to make breathtak…
- Different world shapes - 1 August 2023
Hi everyone! Something exciting to share about Le Château: I recently got curious if it would be cool to have more options for world shapes, and the answer was a big yes!! Besides the default square shaped world, I've also added a diamond, and a circle shaped world. They size differently than square worlds, since it looks better for them to have a direct middle. So a square world can size 1, 2, 3, etc all the way to 11. But a diamond or circle world can size 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11. There's still a lot to do, most of which is trying not to get distracted by other projects, but I'm super excited for people to play this beautiful little cozy city builder. You can follow more on development on my Twitter @TShelfman Seeya next time! TheShelfman
