CastleOn

CastleOn drops you right in the middle of the Third Crusade with one job: build a castle that can take a beating and dish one out too. Stack up walls and towers from wood and stone, dig moats, raise mottes, and set traps everywhere you can. Then when the enemy comes knocking, it’s arrows, boiling oil, rolling logs and worse raining down from your battlements while you smash their siege towers and push back their ladders.

What really sets this one apart is the sheer amount of stuff going on under the hood. There’s a huge tech tree with over 90 technologies, 5 religions you can enable or disable as you like, 16 criminal abilities if you fancy playing a bit dirty, and over 50 historical Lords to deal with including names like Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Every match plays out differently thanks to randomised relations, random events and six difficulty levels to pick from.

You’re not just building one castle over and over either. You’ll be fighting across the Holy Land, Balkans, Iberian Peninsula, Scandinavia and central Europe, with over 50 skirmish maps set on real historical castle locations plus full campaigns based on actual battles. Fancy making your own scenarios? The built in editor lets you create your own skirmishes or campaigns from scratch.