CastleStorm
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 7h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, GeForce 6600 / Radeon 9800 / Intel HD 2000, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Welcome to the world of CastleStorm, a super genre mashup of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! CastleStorm was born out of the fond childhood memory of building and destroying LEGO castles.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in January 2020. It has been discounted 61 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rock of Ages ($9.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™ ($14.99, scores 55).
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 16 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 255 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 206 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7 hours. Doing everything runs 21, 2.9 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
75% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 08:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
such a good game. When I was a kid a man came to me in a dream named bovas trinklet and he told me to get this crap. lets just say it didnt disapoint. OOH yeah.
as a top 20 player (you will find me on the leaderboards) I felt like i should make a review. I first played this on the ps3, the game was fun but never standout. I would say it is a good game especially if you have friends to play with but in all honesty the gameplay can be an acquired taste. if you do decide to play and go for the leaderboard grind spam golems and healers. stack instakill projectiles as when ai...
I found this by accident, I had the Pinball game of this, and decided it might suit me and I very much enjoyed playing it thus far. I enjoy the casual aspect and humour and all the game modes etc. Much more my cup of tea nowadays. Cheers.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
CastleStorm scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/241410/castlestormReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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