Castle Story
Skip · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 14, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 65% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 440 512MB, Radeon HD 4450 512MB, Intel HD 3000, 1.7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was October 2023. 73 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Craft The World ($18.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Feudal: Forest Village ($24.99, scores 12).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 537 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 1,086 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
49% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
27 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Castle Story scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/227860/castle-storyReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Oct 1.
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