Castle Craft News

Castle Craft, the first game from our studio, Twin Earth, is officially LIVE in Early Access! 🎉 It’s been nearly three years, countless cups of coffee, and a few late-night coding sessions, but the day has finally arrived! 🕒 Dive in and experience chaotic siege battles in a fully destructible world — it’s time to unleash the madness! 💥

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[h2]What's new?[/h2]
We’ve listened to all your feedback from the demo and made tons of improvements & added a lot of content! 🛠️ The Early Access game includes:

✨ Two brand-new kingdoms with unique challenges:

• Stygia: A desert kingdom with skeletons that climb walls and wield sand magic to fight back against your defenses. 🏜️💀
  
• Hyperborea: An icy wasteland where the mysterious Acolytes summon snow and ice to wield their deadly magic. ❄️🧊
  

🌟 Creative Mode: Play at your own pace with no pressure — summon enemy waves whenever you feel ready! 🏰🛡️

⚔️ New units and traits: Meet the Acolytes, Elder Things, climbing enemies, enemy bridge builders, and more! 🦴💥

🌍 World Randomization: Liberated the first three kingdoms? Time to tackle randomized worlds filled with new challenges! 🌱🔥

[h2]I like the game, how can I help?[/h2]
🌟 Buy the game (it's temporarily 15% off to celebrate the launch!)
🌟 Write Steam review (Yes, these help aaa looot!)
🌟 Play the game and have fun!
🌟 Give us feedback on our Discord or in the Steam forums! (so we can make Castle Craft even better!)
🌟 And tell your friends about it!

[h2]Why Early Access? 🤔[/h2]
Castle Craft has been shaped by you — our amazing Discord community! 🙌 Your feedback over the past year has made the game even better than we could have imagined, and we’re excited to continue this journey with your input. We want to hear from you! Join us on Discord to tell us what you'd love to see in the game next! 🔮



Found any bugs? 🐞 Let us know in our Discord! We're actively reviewing reports and will work hard to help with any issues you may encounter. Your experience matters to us! 💬

Happy building & defending!
Marco, Philipp, Jonathan

Hi everyone

We finally have an official (and final) Early Access release date! (No more changing that!)

[h2]Castle Craft is releasing into Early Access on April 28
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We are excited to share our Early Access release trailer with you & hope you are as excited for the release as we are!

Happy building & defending,
the Castle Craft crew

Hey everyone!

We are also happy to finally add custom key bindings to the demo! They will allow non-QWERTY players to customize the game to their liking.



But wait, there is more in this demo update!

⏳ Gameplay & Controls:
* Pickups now have physics.
* Added more language localizations.
* The salvage tool now highlights things you can salvage (units, traps).
* Large traps now affect Minions navigation, getting them to avoid them.
* Improved target actor when placing cubes horizontally, allowing to place horizontally even in challenging conditions such as very horizontal look-at angle.
* A new settings menu with lots of new options.
* A foliage density option - this helps the game run better on older GPUs.
* Tutorial: The world state now restored after tutorial to avoid possible exploits like collecting infinite resources.
* Reworked skill-bar code that will allow us to add a skill selection wheel in the future.
* Shepherd's View now has a time dillution option for slow-motion and time lapses.
* When a friendly platoon follows you, you can now always let it stop following you with a new key.

🔥 Weapons & Combat:
* Improved cannon and projectile defences behavior: They now ensure they have a line of sight on the target, don’t target units they can’t hit due to the required rotation, and prioritize closer target
* Rocket artillery is doing significantly more damage inside it’s damage radius
* Enemy waves 11-15 are less difficult, they have 1-2 enemy platoons less each.

📷 Audio, Visual & AI Enhancements:
* Increase font sizes across the board: HUD, menu, kingdom info
* Archers don't charge into battle anymore if the enemy units are outside their melee charge range.
* Reduce music volume when the game is paused.

🔥Bug Fixes
* King upgrades are now applied correctly.
* Fixed: Sometimes you could not interact with defences until you moved away and back again.
* Fixed: Blending to black did not alway cover all menu elements.

Let us know what you think!

Happy building & defending,
the Castle Craft crew

Once again Castle Craft is part of the Lovecraftian Days event on Steam, this time with a demo for you to play! And we'd love to hear your feedback on our Discord.

Also we're going to post some news that many of you might have been waiting on later this week! But I can't give away the secret just yet...


Back to the lovecraftian theme, this is Hyperborea - the land of the Acolytes, ruled by the Elder One and one of the three present regions in Castle Craft.

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Hyperborea offers a departure into the realm of the unforeseen. Here, the Acolytes command forces that defy conventional wisdom, compelling you to evolve your strategies and think beyond the bounds of the ordinary.

The bulwark of your castle remains your last line of defense against the eldritch terrors unleashed by the Acolytes. Yet, victory demands more than strength; it requires ingenuity. You must harness the full potential of your fortress in innovative ways to fend off the encroaching darkness and secure your kingdom's survival.


And if you're like me and just can't get enough of lovecraftian lore and cosmic terrors, then head over to the Lovecraftian Days to check out all of the fantastic lovecraftian games!