Defend Your Castle Review (Web-based)

Posted on 28 October 2005 by Weefz

Age Rating: Teens+ (as listed on the site)

What is it?

Cute but evil Flash-based animated game. Stickmen and blood included. Parental Guidance advised.

Is it fun?

Yes! For a half hour or so. Then it gets quite stressful.

Is it worth the price? (Free!)

Just 5 minutes of your time to check it out? Yes.

Why?

It has stickmen and splashy blood effects! What more could you want?

Gameplay is very simple and repetitive yet weirdly addictive - defend your castle by grabbing the invading stickmen with your mouse and flinging them up into the air. When they land, they squelch into a little puddle of blood and die. As you progress through the levels you gather points for survival and for the number of stickmen you kill and the stickmen come at you faster and faster. With battering rams!

The points can be used to upgrade your castle defences, building thicker walls, or a temple to convert the marauding stickmen to your side to give you archers and other military units. Gives you something to strive for when your wrist is giving in to RSI.

Links:

http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/castle/

Screenshots

cartoony game screenshot

Popularity: 28% [?]

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39 Comments For This Post

  1. GREAZY Says:

    The game is fun at first, but gets very frustrating.

  2. Brinstar Says:

    But so much fun! I like the sound effects.

  3. Weefz Says:

    My thoughts exactly… Splooooooort! Squish! ;)

  4. Shaving Ryans Privates Says:

    Ya, too long playing raises my stress level, But way worth your time (carefl with the giants)

  5. jon Says:

    best simple game ever!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. bob mcguire Says:

    i thought that i was ill last night so i ate a whole peanut in my living room at 6 o’clock in the shower. mmmmmm gotta go my onions are done so waaahooo quincy is my father and columbo is my mummy and sherlock holmes is my great grand daughter.

  7. Weefz Says:

    Um… okay?

  8. joseph Says:

    that is stupid but fun hehehehehehehehehehehehe

  9. joseph Says:

    you know cheats splattery 45 10 level each i got on level 210

  10. ozzie oz Says:

    lol cheats?

  11. mcd154 Says:

    Fun Fun and more Fun

  12. jdawg Says:

    anybody know how many levels there are? i’m on 25

  13. Seany boy Says:

    Dude!!!!!!i play this game in skool a lot its totally rad.

  14. arrrg Says:

    how do you do the temple thing? like. convert enemies into good guys for you

  15. ???????????????????? Says:

    you drop them in your castle

  16. Domeanator Says:

    I LUV THIS GAME!!!!!!SO MUCH FUN!SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND ??????? IS RIGHT YOU DROP THEM IN THE CASTLE LOL

  17. cas Says:

    I dont know how to kill the big stick people!!!!!

  18. gee gee Says:

    i dunno how many levels there are, but im in the 500s

  19. Weefz Says:

    Impressive. Doesn’t your wrist hurt?

  20. Jon Says:

    wow… retared. its just a game, but whatever, and maybe you little 12 year olds should stop posting ’cause it’s absolutely ridiculous.

  21. Weefz Says:

    No name-calling, please.

  22. la loser Says:

    My archers keep on dieing it dumb but the game rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  23. la loser Says:

    Hey john you should stop acting cool we know its a game why would we be playing it then whet eles do you think we think it is??

  24. la loser Says:

    weefz how do you get so your archers dont die after the first round

  25. hihi Says:

    i cant get [ast the 2nd lvl that has giants i need cheats to

  26. hihi Says:

    oh and another thing is that if u right click and click forward the game freezes then u throw the guys up u want to die then right click and click back they will fall down and die i found that out

  27. DEADSOUL Says:

    hey i saw a video on youtube about lvl 97 wooow! they just come out like lighting fast all i see are stick giants dieing

    because this guy has 106 wizards, 1300 archers, and 56 carpenters.

    the sound affects are funny though because soo many die you can only hear splash squish splosh smash.

    by the way i hate those giants becaus you have to either wait for your archers or wizards to kill them.

    highest lvl was 46 , 45 was ok and i had 36000 hp but 46 my health went down in droves …dead in 2 min 42 seconds

  28. Weefz Says:

    Wow, that’s pretty impressive! I only play this game casually. Never been anywhere near that level.

  29. DB Says:

    How do you use the building add-ons? I bought the Archer add on and the Workshop add on and when I tried to drop the stickmen into the castle where the flags were nothing happened. They just landed next to the castle, outside, and started pounding on it. What is the trick?

  30. Kevin Says:

    My People keep dieing but the enemy never attacks my castle

  31. Kaj Says:

    Only discovered this recently, as I was getting annoyed by my archers and wizards seemingly randomly dying at the end of a level. At the end of each level, you lose some points for “upkeep” i.e. to maintain your soldiers. After you spend some points at the end of the level, you will say for example be left with 3000 points. However, at the end of the next level, if your existing and any new soldiers have an “upkeep” cost of more than 3000, it will kill enough soldiers to bring the “upkeep” cost down to 3000. Even if you get a million points on a level, if the spendable points you have at the start of a level is less than the upkeep at the end of that level your men will die. Have got bored of this game now, once you pass a critical point (about level 20ish) you have enough wizards to do non-stop converting spells and you then just get a ton of archers and become self sufficient. Got to level 53 once, with 700 archers, 100 wizards and 120 repairers.

  32. ego Says:

    Yeah once you hit lvl 20 all you can spend money on is the wall… and with 66 carps and 500+ archers 500,000 hp is pretty unstoppable…

    I’m just gonna let it run in the background while I’m at work =P see how long it takes to get to lvl 100 (and if it’ll make it without any more than 500 archers :D

  33. vince Says:

    Listen…here’s a walkthrough…after a few levels you’ll get 5000 points. BUY A TEMPLE..Convert as many men as you can and save up…you’ll use them later..then do not buy anything until you have 40,000 to buy a mana pool…next buy 8-10 mages, but NO MORE! you will lose most or all of what you get because you dont have the money to fund…keep converting…THEN….next round don’t buy anything big…keep atleast 10,000 so your mages dont die. from here on out try to get 100 mages (which is 20,000 per level), then buy an archery next…still keeping 20,000 atleast for next level…next convert like crazy and build all archers. I am currently at lvl 50 with 600 archers and 150 mages and 10 repairmen…it’s 140,000 per level to keep them all alive but i dont have to do anything anymore my archers kill everything b4 they touch me. good luck playing everyone =) just remember…save up for mana pool first =p

  34. Hello you Says:

    I am on 39 with 250 wizards, 550 archer and 105 craftsmen. After that it gets tough to convert since the guys that slip through move so fast, but the best thing to do is build up your wall and any guys you do get put them to archers.

  35. Thanasi Says:

    How the HELL do u make archers? i buy the archery range but i dunno how to make archers? can sum1 explain.

  36. super sacker Says:

    I made it to level 999 but i cant get past it
    probably cuz 999 is the # of the satan and hell

  37. Matt Says:

    It’s pretty fun!! I have 120 Mages. 150 Archers, 120 Craftsmen at the moment with 225000HP. My health never goes down thanks to my craftsman. I just sit here and watch my archers do all the work. I’m about to add 300 archers though. 4/5

  38. thomas Says:

    haha alright ihad 2453 archerer

    170 wizards

    1234 crafts man

    and 2m hp

    level 86

    up keep 600000

    at level 48 lost all people

    i always keep 1M incase of huge up keep

    and super sacker theres no way you got to 999 u just want to look cool

    (sound cool)

  39. Ampifier Says:

    I looked at a recent pic of defend ur casltle and its got a flying dragon breathin fire at the castle?

    Has anyone got so far to reach a dragon? If so what level roughly do you encounter it?

    It is the same game. I havent made a mistake incase u ask.

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