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Castle maintenance crew repairing a colourful fortress during a chaotic comic siege.$1.99PLANNED
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Action strategy / base maintenance

Castle Trouble

The objective is not to defeat the army; it is to keep the castle usable until they leave.

A humorous defense-and-repair game where a tiny maintenance crew keeps a fantasy castle functioning during increasingly absurd sieges. You are the overlooked staff who know the castle better than the heroes do.

Planned price$1.99
Session7–12 minute sieges; 90–120 minute campaign
Demo10-minute vertical slice
DRMNone
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WHAT IS CASTLE TROUBLE?

You are the overlooked staff who know the castle better than the heroes do.

A humorous defense-and-repair game where a tiny maintenance crew keeps a fantasy castle functioning during increasingly absurd sieges. You are the overlooked staff who know the castle better than the heroes do.

Best for: Players who enjoy focused management, connected systems and meaningful trade-offs in short sessions.

WHY IT IS DIFFERENT

The objective is not to defeat the army; it is to keep the castle usable until they leave.

  • The objective is not to defeat the army; it is to keep the castle usable until they leave.
  • A fourteen-siege campaign with three castle expansions and recurring residents.
  • Add rooms and improve mechanisms within a constrained castle plan.

CORE LOOP

From first decision to completed run.

a kitchen-centered siege where feeding workers competes with using soup as a defense.

  1. 1Review the incoming threat and choose staff assignments
  2. 2Prepare traps, spare parts, barricades, and evacuation routes
  3. 3During the siege, dispatch workers, reroute lifts, repair rooms, and rescue inhabitants
  4. 4Survive until the attack ends or complete a special objective
  5. 5Use wages and favors to improve the castle before the next siege

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

A complete arc, not an endless grind.

A fourteen-siege campaign with three castle expansions and recurring residents. Threats escalate from goblin raiders to rival knights, sorcerous weather, and a dragon that mostly wants the pantry.

Add rooms and improve mechanisms within a constrained castle plan. Staff gain quirks and small specialties but cannot die permanently.

CONTROLS & ACCESSIBILITY

Clarity and assists are part of the design.

Select rooms and staff on a side-view castle cutaway. Queue jobs, place temporary repairs, trigger mechanisms, and pause.

Pause is standard. Assists include slower incidents, faster repairs, unbreakable key rooms, and automatic worker routing.

CORE SYSTEMS

  • The objective is not to defeat the army; it is to keep the castle usable until they leave.
  • A fourteen-siege campaign with three castle expansions and recurring residents.
  • Add rooms and improve mechanisms within a constrained castle plan.

FIRST PLAYABLE PROOF

10-minute vertical slice

a kitchen-centered siege where feeding workers competes with using soup as a defense.

QUICK ANSWERS

Castle Trouble FAQ

What kind of game is Castle Trouble?+
A humorous defense-and-repair game where a tiny maintenance crew keeps a fantasy castle functioning during increasingly absurd sieges. You are the overlooked staff who know the castle better than the heroes do. Its central hook is: The objective is not to defeat the army; it is to keep the castle usable until they leave.
How long is a session of Castle Trouble?+
The planned play pattern is 7–12 minute sieges; 90–120 minute campaign. The first browser demo is a 10-minute vertical slice.
What is included in Castle Trouble?+
A fourteen-siege campaign with three castle expansions and recurring residents. Threats escalate from goblin raiders to rival knights, sorcerous weather, and a dragon that mostly wants the pantry. Add rooms and improve mechanisms within a constrained castle plan. Staff gain quirks and small specialties but cannot die permanently.
Will Castle Trouble be DRM-free?+
Castle Trouble is planned as a complete $1.99 DRM-free download for Windows, macOS and Linux, with a separate browser demo and no proprietary launcher.

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