Castle Story

Tayla Sommer

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	Genre	Sandbox, Real Time Strategy
	Kickstarter	27th July 2012
	Early Access	23rd September 2013
	Release	17th August 2017
	Publisher	Sauropod Studio
	Studio	Sauropod Studio
	Game Modes	Single Player, Multiplayer, Coop
	Game Engine	Unity
	Plattform	Linux, Mac OS, Windows

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Game Description

Castle Story is a sandbox real-time strategy voxel based building game developed and published by Sauropod Studio. The game was funded via Kickstarter in 2012, had its full release in 2017 and is since 2019 no longer in development.

There are multiple game modes in the game: Sandbox is for relaxed building of structures, and castles, you do this by using your „Bricktrons“ which are small yellow people which you can control and say what to harvest, build or attack. Conquest is either a PvP, Coop PvE or singleplayer PvE game mode, in which you need to take control of crystals around the map and defeat the rockmonsters called „Corruptrons“. And at last there is Invasion in which you need to defend your home crystal against hordes of these Corruptrons.

The game is quite simple and gameplay only lasts about 2-4 hours. Since the game is quite unstable it becomes more laggy the more time passes. With all its faults and errors, I still love the game and have spend thousands of hours in it.

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Subjective Sound Analysis

Music

The music provides a good indication for the style of the entire sounddesign. It is loud, sometimes hectic, it has a steady rhythm and a lot of digital instruments.