Castles

The price really doesn't match what you are getting. It is exactly the game you played in 1991 and it needs to use DOS box to even play. This should be a dollar game or even freeware at this point.

135 found this helpful, 2017-07-15

Perfect port of an old game. Very old game so don't expect otherwise, but there's a lot of fun if nothing else seeing how well you can mess with the old simplistic path-finding and AI, and it's a reasonably fun game designing castles, managing workers, army, and their wages, and how that effects your budget, and if you turn on "messengers" you get a number of interesting stories that play out during the game. This...

26 found this helpful, 2017-07-24

Castles fills me with nostalgia, but the DOSBox version sold here crashes on my Windows 8.1 machine and isn't worth the trouble of trying to troubleshoot beyond what I already have. If you can get it to work for more than thirty minutes at a time or so it might be worth it for you.

13 found this helpful, 2018-11-03

This has been one of my favorite games since it first came out. I love the game enough that paying $10 to have it on Steam was worth it to me. You can easily get it for free online, but this prepackaged DOS box and being able to play without having to mess with configs to get it working is always nice. If you've played it before or really really love castle building games, it's worth it. Keep in mind, it is a game...