Its been a long road but it was worth it in the end.

I do not think the game is 100% complete by any means but it certainly has been worth the wait if your like me and like playing single player sandbox, I love the big world as it gives you a lot more choices of what you can do and how you can do it, if you can work out how the blocks work :).

The A.I presently is sweet doing mostly everything that i would want them to do from digging along a plain and then going for the next layer of dirt or rock so they can gradually dig out the earth evenly,

Today i tried to play for a couple of hours but my computer and the house decided that today was not my day (blackout) to play but i got my testing that i wanted,

I have been testing the game on the largest world possible because it means i can stress test the game to what i think is a reasionable test. Things like flatting out an area, building on that flat area up a crooked moutain and all the while making sure the game hasn't got its niggles which are a few at this time.

Just so i can point these out. There's a double effect going on with the A.I's behaviour it seems they will take a task and split it in half meaning if they get half way done they will re-aquire there path which to me isnt a bad thing. BUTTT it can pause the game very breifly and that is why i have stated the game isn't quite there just yet but its soo close its not funny.

A feature the game needs is a Fast forward button to speed up work but i am not sure if that will ever be a thing in this game,

The game is stable, Fun, Colorful, and long lasting at least for me if you like to play for long hours on end and watch your little bricktrons run about doing tasks you have set apon them.

I am writing today on this review board because now is the time to do so, The dev's have been asking when i will do do one and i have always said that When the game is done or at least getting to a almost finnished product i will do one then,

So the game is now worth your time for single player bases, And thats how this review is.

So if you wish to get info for muliplayer this game has it along with caputre the flag and a couple of other modes in that, as well as single player being conquest where you get enemy's that attack you from different directions and you can try and survive by building a base and holding off the enemy.

But i do not play that mode so please look to other for that information.

Thank you Castle Story Dev's and I can't wait to see if you do anything else with this game.

It looks like devolopers woke up ! At last :D !!! Yeeey :D !!!

I used to not like this game, but the extreme overalls and additions of great new content (enimies specifically) has led to me strongly recommend it

Its a very good game but its not worth 20$ i think it whould be like 8$

In its current state is what I would expect from a early access title... however this has been in early access for YEARS and I assume this is because of their small team size and Real life issues.

You can do multiplayer (if you do the work around, and dev has confirmed working on a fix.) The game is far less buggy form the last time I played this (1 year ago).

Is it worth the 20 USD at this point... I would be at a 66% yes and a 33% no... as multiplayer is a big thing for me there still some small bugs that have appeared but I now that these issues have been made aware to dev and its in their pipeline. When these issues and a few more branches of units and maybe some research feature to make units stronger or faster. bricktron tank maybe?

Its a game none the less and I do recommend this game to people that want a casual stratagy game with creative elements.

I got the early access to this game for about 2 years ago or so, and I had my hopes up for the developers and the game itself this whole time. With seeing that the game right now updates pretty often I can tell that it is going in the right direction, although I see many bugs like bricktrones pathfind problems and them getting stuck anywhere pretty much for no reason still occur pretty often. I really wish I had a tutorial about how to build an actual castle, step by step with showing how most of the stuff works cause I found myself pretty much unable to build a simple watchtower for the archer (probably cuz i'm stupid). As of the version 0.7.5 the game looks pretty much laggy and unstable sometimes (at least for me) I got some relaxing expirience in the sandbox mode while I was calmly trying to build something what should look like a castle, but I didn't hook me up for long. Then I tried playing conquest mode which I found pretty boring cuz of corruptrones attacking me every 5 minutes while I was trying to build something, it's got annoying pretty quick so I just left, the only thing I haven't checked is the multiplayer mode (cuz no friends) which should be fun in my opinion cuz of many things you might do with your friends from PvP to "who's the largest?".

Overall I think that at this point with the developers hardly working on the game right now this game has a very good potential in the future, but for now in my opinion this game isn't something what you want to buy right now. You should definately keep an eye out for this game cuz there's nothing like this out there, for now you can just find something else to play.

I might change my opinion in the future, depends on how the game will change.

I have already had great fun in this game and I expect alot of fun to come!
This game was woth it's 20 euro's!

Never before has a dev added me from a multiplayer meetup group and asked to play...

10/10
Devs are fantastic.

Great concept, terrible execution. Bought this game back in 2013. The development has been so damn slow and even in 0.7 multiplayer simply doesn't work for me and my friend, we've opened ports, disabled firewalls and connect via IP. No luck.

Prime example of a game which shouldn't have gone to early access.

I was one of the kickstarter backers of this game back in 2012. Back then I was really excited for Castle Story, but because of school and other reasons I forgot that I owned the game when it was finally released on steam. Over the years I kept an eye on the game, and was pretty disappointed that no significant improvements had been made on it until now. Only very recently did I find out that I had a key, and decided to give the game a try.

All I can say is that Castle Story has made some pretty significant progress over the past few months. Blueprint coping, multiplayer conquest mode and the map editor were all very much needed features for the game.
The only qualm I have is the lack of variety of maps, but with steam workshop integration in the works, community made maps will be much easier to download and play.

Very excited for the future of this game! 8/10