Kingdoms and Castles overview

Overview

Kingdoms and Castles comes from Lion Shield, LLC and is published by Lion Shield, LLC. It arrived on Steam on Jul 20, 2017, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Includes level editor, and Remote Play on Tablet. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Kingdoms and Castles's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 306 players at 22 September 2026 - 16:44:12 UTC, with a tracked peak near 4,836. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 94% positive across 30,995 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Kingdoms and Castles is available in 18 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Kingdoms and Castles has sold up to 1,500,000 units and has 30,321 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $12,300,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Kingdoms and Castles overview details

Kingdoms and Castles combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Wishlist our Next Game! Join the Discord - Chat with the Devs! About the Game Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world. Do the viking raiders make off with your villagers? Or are they stopped, full of arrows, at the castle gates? Does a dragon torch your granary, your people dying of starvation in the winter, or are you able to turn the beast back? The success of your kingdom depends solely on your skill as a city and castle planner. Strategically layout your town to improve your peasants' happiness and to attract new residents. Tax them just enough to fund your castle. Make sure your peasants are fed in the winter and healed of plagues. Build churches to keep them from despair and taverns to keep them happy. You can even throw festivals if you've built a town square! Send out wood cutters to collect wood, set up stone quarries to build your castles, and farm the land efficiently so your town can grow and thrive. The new land you're settling is at risk of viking invasion. These raiders seek to kidnap and kill your peasants, steal your resources, and burn your town to the ground. Use a powerful castle building system where castles are constructed using blocks which can be placed anywhere. Towers and walls are dynamically created based on how you stack and arrange them. Archer towers and other weapon emplacements have longer range the higher their tower. Try different layouts to best protect your kingdom and express your…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Kingdoms and Castles is listed as a game with $19.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Includes level editor, and Remote Play on Tablet, and is associated with Indie, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 306 players at 22 September 2026 - 16:44:12 UTC, a tracked peak of 4,836, and 94% positive reviews.

Overview tags

City BuilderColony SimStrategyMedievalBuildingSimulationSandboxResource ManagementBase-BuildingSingleplayerSurvivalManagementRTSEconomyAction

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