Land and Castles - RTS

Name: Land and Castles - RTS
Rating: 4.4 (2688 reviews)
Author: Andrew Moloney

RTS strategy games multiplayer

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

2.7K Ratings
Ages

9+
Years
Category

Strategy
Developer

Andrew Moloney
Language

EN
English
Size

135.7
MB

Epic real-time strategy for everyone. Build your kingdom, settle, explore, battle with knights and conquer enemy castles! A RTS game designed for iPhone, iPad and now macOS. • 41 Levels • Multiplayer • Map Editor • Skirmish mode • Pixel art graphics • Intuitive interface Includes boats, farms, strongholds, villages, fog of war, auto-save and more! Play online with your friends or offline against bots. Create your own scenario in Skirmish mode, add computer players with varying levels of difficulty and play on unique maps created by the automatic map generator or use the map editor to design your own. Quests include a tutorial for new players. It's easy to learn and play with 120 FPS support on capable devices. Download now and start building your empire! Website and support are available in English only. Playing custom maps requires the "Plus" in app purchase. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Ratings & Reviews

4.4

out of 5

2.7K Ratings

Great Beta Game
12/05/2022

baffo32
Lots of fun. Computer seems too easy.Bugs: - When editing a map, if you hit the settings wheel, the generate button is misplaced and can’t be clicked (I had to restart the app). - No multiplayer matches seem to happen. - The computer can be defeated with a simple strategy. My strategy, roughly: - Place farms first, as many as possible. Research farming first. - Explore toward the enemy, placing castles to include the resources needed most. - If the map is mazey, keep castles somewhat near each other to make defense easier, not scattering them sparsely. - Once the enemy is reached, provide only a single 1-width channel to enemy. Fill it with 4-count knights. Upgrade combat, and begin taking enemy castles. - If the enemy gets threatening, protect castles by keeping 4-count knights pinned on them. Proceed to take enemy castles as the primary way to have more castles. The computer seems to generally not be smart enough to build sufficient land paths or accumulate enough knights near castles to effectively counterattack. Sometimes when I have a computer ally I refrain from building toward the enemy, because they do instead, and it’s much easier to have only one access path.
Great Beta Game
12/05/2022

baffo32

Lots of fun. Computer seems too easy.Bugs: - When editing a map, if you hit the settings wheel, the generate button is misplaced and can’t be clicked (I had to restart the app). - No multiplayer matches seem to happen. - The computer can be defeated with a simple strategy. My strategy, roughly: - Place farms first, as many as possible. Research farming first. - Explore toward the enemy, placing castles to include the resources needed most. - If the map is mazey, keep castles somewhat near each other to make defense easier, not scattering them sparsely. - Once the enemy is reached, provide only a single 1-width channel to enemy. Fill it with 4-count knights. Upgrade combat, and begin taking enemy castles. - If the enemy gets threatening, protect castles by keeping 4-count knights pinned on them. Proceed to take enemy castles as the primary way to have more castles. The computer seems to generally not be smart enough to build sufficient land paths or accumulate enough knights near castles to effectively counterattack. Sometimes when I have a computer ally I refrain from building toward the enemy, because they do instead, and it’s much easier to have only one access path.
Love this game and the potential!
11/01/2021

mageo'wen
Just want to start off by saying I love how this games plays! It’s a very fun game that is easy to play and learn. What I am really looking forward to in this game is potential of making these randomly generated worlds really come to life and be fun to explore. What I would like to see in the future is a major overhaul of the over world. Including things like unique biomes when a world generates, natural structures within those biomes and animals and plants that really make every random world unique. Being able to explore a thick tree forest, to a mountain continent, to a hot desert would be very cool. I think having some generated structures on the map that a player can explore ( little towns, caves, towers, ruins, etc) that give the player something when explored would also add to the excitement of exploring the world. Finally, a weather system with rain, snow, lightening and thunder would also really help being the world to life. Also being able to make your castles bigger, more impressive, look unique could also be cool as it would make each kingdom feel unique. I feel like additions like these would really help the game stand out. Like I said above, very excited for the potential of this game. Great work so far!
Love this game and the potential!
11/01/2021

mageo'wen

Just want to start off by saying I love how this games plays! It’s a very fun game that is easy to play and learn. What I am really looking forward to in this game is potential of making these randomly generated worlds really come to life and be fun to explore. What I would like to see in the future is a major overhaul of the over world. Including things like unique biomes when a world generates, natural structures within those biomes and animals and plants that really make every random world unique. Being able to explore a thick tree forest, to a mountain continent, to a hot desert would be very cool. I think having some generated structures on the map that a player can explore ( little towns, caves, towers, ruins, etc) that give the player something when explored would also add to the excitement of exploring the world. Finally, a weather system with rain, snow, lightening and thunder would also really help being the world to life. Also being able to make your castles bigger, more impressive, look unique could also be cool as it would make each kingdom feel unique. I feel like additions like these would really help the game stand out. Like I said above, very excited for the potential of this game. Great work so far!
Ads! Ads! Ads! And rips off players
Mar 23

GDD9000
First off, I paid for this app years ago and never once saw an ad. Played the games hours and loved it. Deleted the app and moved. Decided to redownload this week and start playing again. And boy am I disappointed. Even though I originally had this app as a one time purchase the developer has changed it to a freemium app and is demanding my money twice to get rids of the obstructive ads. And I mean obstructive , I’m trying to play an early level, level 7. Every time I start to play it forces an ad down my throat. I force quit but no I cannot get past it. And this wasn’t the first ad, it was just the first one that completely stopped gameplay. I can not express how dissatisfied I am that the developer thinks early customers who paid for the app (before the game went freemium) don’t deserve the product they paid for. Essentially this app is a long game bait and switch to rip-off customers who don’t wish to be harassed by constant, intrusive ads. Honestly I’m ashamed at how many times I recommended this once great game to friends. It makes me feel like an accomplice to a crime. Sigh, this game was much fun. But greed has ruined it. Save your time, find a better game that doesn’t try to ruin your gaming experience by forcing you to pause for 30+ seconds chunks every other level.

Developer Response
Hello GDD9000,Just to be clear, there was a bug when Apple updated their receipt verification system and I had to update the app to the new version, it would never accept payment twice since this is not actually possible. The game always included ads and a payment to remove them, it was simply temporarily unavailable and I apologise for that. The app is now updated to the new system which should allow you to restore your purchase. The update also includes some new features, please let me know how you get on.Andy (The Developer)
Ads! Ads! Ads! And rips off players
Mar 23

GDD9000

First off, I paid for this app years ago and never once saw an ad. Played the games hours and loved it. Deleted the app and moved. Decided to redownload this week and start playing again. And boy am I disappointed. Even though I originally had this app as a one time purchase the developer has changed it to a freemium app and is demanding my money twice to get rids of the obstructive ads. And I mean obstructive , I’m trying to play an early level, level 7. Every time I start to play it forces an ad down my throat. I force quit but no I cannot get past it. And this wasn’t the first ad, it was just the first one that completely stopped gameplay. I can not express how dissatisfied I am that the developer thinks early customers who paid for the app (before the game went freemium) don’t deserve the product they paid for. Essentially this app is a long game bait and switch to rip-off customers who don’t wish to be harassed by constant, intrusive ads. Honestly I’m ashamed at how many times I recommended this once great game to friends. It makes me feel like an accomplice to a crime. Sigh, this game was much fun. But greed has ruined it. Save your time, find a better game that doesn’t try to ruin your gaming experience by forcing you to pause for 30+ seconds chunks every other level.
Developer Response Sep 8
Hello GDD9000,Just to be clear, there was a bug when Apple updated their receipt verification system and I had to update the app to the new version, it would never accept payment twice since this is not actually possible. The game always included ads and a payment to remove them, it was simply temporarily unavailable and I apologise for that. The app is now updated to the new system which should allow you to restore your purchase. The update also includes some new features, please let me know how you get on.Andy (The Developer)
Worth checking out.
04/23/2020

Savvy Trump
(Original post)”The game is simple and fun... but has a lot of issues. Enemy, ally and your own troops have terrible pathfinding and get stuck on each other, not being able to pass through allied troops. The game starts off easily enough and slowly gets more difficult, until you hit the paywall. Once you hit the paywall and have to watch ads, the games difficulty ramps up considerably. You can merge troops up to for times, to have an four star army. Yet, I’ve seen numerous times where your own four star troops get wrecked by one star enemies! Play for a few stages and then delete.”Updated Review: Game balance has been fixed and you don’t get stomped by inferior army. Pathfinding has improved, but still has some issues. Chests randomly spawning in the world add a welcomed randomness and exploration incentive. I deleted this game and forgot about it. The dev actually responded to me very first review and I decided to give it a second look and I’m glad I did. Thank you to the dev and I even bought the game instead of playing free. Good job and keep up the work, you have something special that can get even grander.

Developer Response
Hey Savvy Trump,Thank you for your feedback. The latest update fixes a number of these issues. It includes difficulty balancing on the later levels, better path finding and improved battle odds which are now related to the number of units fighting. This makes it much harder for a level 1 unit to go on a crazy rampage.There is also a new “Treasure Chest” item and a bunch more improvements and fixes. I hope you will give the game another try!Please let me know if you have any more feedback.Andy
Worth checking out.
04/23/2020

Savvy Trump

(Original post)”The game is simple and fun... but has a lot of issues. Enemy, ally and your own troops have terrible pathfinding and get stuck on each other, not being able to pass through allied troops. The game starts off easily enough and slowly gets more difficult, until you hit the paywall. Once you hit the paywall and have to watch ads, the games difficulty ramps up considerably. You can merge troops up to for times, to have an four star army. Yet, I’ve seen numerous times where your own four star troops get wrecked by one star enemies! Play for a few stages and then delete.”Updated Review: Game balance has been fixed and you don’t get stomped by inferior army. Pathfinding has improved, but still has some issues. Chests randomly spawning in the world add a welcomed randomness and exploration incentive. I deleted this game and forgot about it. The dev actually responded to me very first review and I decided to give it a second look and I’m glad I did. Thank you to the dev and I even bought the game instead of playing free. Good job and keep up the work, you have something special that can get even grander.
Developer Response 04/20/2020
Hey Savvy Trump,Thank you for your feedback. The latest update fixes a number of these issues. It includes difficulty balancing on the later levels, better path finding and improved battle odds which are now related to the number of units fighting. This makes it much harder for a level 1 unit to go on a crazy rampage.There is also a new “Treasure Chest” item and a bunch more improvements and fixes. I hope you will give the game another try!Please let me know if you have any more feedback.Andy

Big 5 year update! NEW FEATURES: 1. New Levels 2. New battle animation 3. Gravestones 4. Game Center for multiplayer 5. Daily rewards for new players 6. Knight path animation (when knight selected and moving, path is shown) 7. Map coordinates axis DESIGN & UI: 8. New Icon 9. Improved menu and UI 10. Improved tech tree interface 11. New fog of war shape 12. Improved scoreboard TECHNICAL: 13. Refactored entire codebase 14. Dynamic Island improvement for iPhone 15+ 15. Upgraded online infrastructure 16. Improved loading time 17. Upgraded to latest APIs LOCALIZATION: 18. New languages 19. Updated translations MORE: 20. Minor improvements to quests 21. Online indicator 22. New Anmoco splash screen 23. Automated account deletion process 24. Swapped Twitter icon for X icon Thank you for playing, if you have any issues, please email hello@anmoco.com. - Andy (The Developer)

Version 3.0.3

Sep 8

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