### Steam Store Description

Kingdoms and Castles is a 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 castes, 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 glory as a
king or queen.

And it all takes place in a beautiful dynamic world with a stylized procedural
cloud system and season cycle from summer to winter. A realistic tree growth
algorithm simulates the forests. Depending on your needs, wood cutters can
clear cut or responsibly manage your forests.

Kingdoms and Castles is the first Fig funded game to be released. Its crowd
funding campaign succeeded with 725% of its goal and was supported by 1,400
backers. Supporters of the game could both pledge and invest during the Fig
campaign.

Kings and Castles