A Castlefolk village of stone and timber houses beside the sea, with squads of knights and spearmen on the grass

Castlefolk

Build. Rule. Conquer.

Build your settlement, gather resources, raise an army, and carve your kingdom out of a dangerous medieval world.

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A pixel-art strategy game made with Godot 4

A kingdom, from one small settlement

  • Build your kingdom

    Start with a small settlement and turn it into a thriving kingdom.

  • Gather & grow

    Harvest wood, hunt for meat and mine gold to keep your people fed and working.

  • Raise your army

    Recruit warriors, archers, lancers and monks, then drill them into a fighting force.

  • Defend & conquer

    Fight dangerous creatures and rival kingdoms for control of the map.

What you will do

The build menu open over a settlement, with a rival castle visible in the distance

Build

Construct castles, houses, barracks, towers, monasteries and more. Every building you raise changes what your settlement can do next.

The parchment strategy map showing friendly green territory beside a rival purple kingdom

Explore

Discover forests, mountains, rivers, coastlines and dangerous wilderness. The map hides both resources and the things that guard them.

The barracks interface with garrison slots and a unit training progress bar

Manage

Balance population, resources, construction and military strength. Every soldier you train is a villager who stops gathering.

Knights fighting skeleton warriors and a minotaur across a wooden bridge

Fight

Command your forces in real-time battles against monsters and rival lords. Position matters as much as numbers.

A player drag-selecting squads of knights with a selection rectangle

Expand

Establish new settlements and push your borders outward across the coastline and into the hills.

A large army of knights, spearmen and archers formed up on open grass

Conquer

Turn a tiny settlement into a kingdom capable of ruling the entire world.

A world worth ruling

Castlefolk is played at kingdom scale. Beyond your walls there are forests to clear, coastlines to settle, rival lords to outgrow — and things in the wilderness that will happily eat a lone woodcutter.

The parchment strategy map with green and purple territories marked

One map, many claims

Zoom out to the parchment map to see the whole world: your territory, your rival's, and everything still unclaimed between them.

Skeleton warriors and a minotaur defending an island across a bridge

The wilderness bites back

Goblins, trolls, gnolls and worse hold the ground you want. Some of them are a nuisance. Some of them end an expedition.

A parchment bestiary card for the minotaur showing health, attack and speed

Know your enemy

Every creature has a bestiary entry with its stats and a little too much personality.

Screenshots

Every image below is from the game as it plays today.

In development

Castlefolk is being built in the open. Here is what works today and what is still being made. No dates — it is ready when it is good.

World

  • Settlements
  • Roads
  • Resource nodes

Economy

  • Resource gathering
  • Population simulation
  • Building progression

Military

  • Unit recruitment
  • Enemy AI
  • Kingdom warfare

Kingdom

  • AI kingdoms
  • Diplomacy
  • Technologies
  • Victory conditions

Your kingdom awaits.

Build your settlement. Raise your army. Defend your people. Conquer the world.

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