Defend Your Castle

Name: Defend Your Castle
Price: 0.99 USD
Rating: 3.9 (31 reviews)
Author: XGen Studios

By: XGen Studios

Casual

Features & Capabilities

Best-selling Nintendo WiiWare hit and Casual Game of the Year nominee. The original game of castle defense -- accept no imitation!

PRESS

"You'd be insane not to give Defend Your Castle a download. Final Score 9/10" - Joystiq.com

"It’s more cathartically satisfying than bubble wrap and a whole lot prettier" - iPhone Games Network

Featured in Apple's "Best Castle Defense Games"

UPDATES

New in 1.0.3: You can now further upgrade your castle's defenses, each tower has three levels of effectiveness, making your army even more powerful than before!

New in 1.0.2: Earn up to 45 medals as you play -- with the all-new achievements system!

DESCRIPTION

Prepare to Defend your Castle against the relentless army of crayon invaders! Those crafty barbarian hordes have amassed their forces once again to challenge your domain. Will you and your court rise to the challenge, or stand aside as they raze your Castle to the ground?

FEATURES

• Battle many different types of enemy invaders, requiring varying tactics to defeat • Upgrade your kingdom with fortified walls, the archery range, wizard tower, craftsmen's workshop, and the demolition laboratory • Strengthen your forces by converting soldiers and assigning them as Archers, Wizards, or Craftsmen to work within your castle or deploying them as Bombers • Cast powerful spells with the aid of your Wizards • Your superb defending abilities now earn you up to 45 new achievements! • Unlimited levels: Continue to grow the strength of your Kingdom indefinitely • Heroic difficulty mode for players of royal descent

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

XGen Studios

Rating:

3.90

(31)

Version:

1.1.8 Last updated: 2017-10-18

Version code:

841383472

Creation date:

2009-04-20

Compatible devices:

Size:

69.28MB

Price:

0.99

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-11

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 251,853 ▼ 905

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Developed by:

XGen Studios

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/defend-your-castle/id311436961

Website:

http://www.xgenstudios.com

User Reviews

Defend Your Castle is a beloved, nostalgia-driven strategy game with solid upgrades and bite-sized play, praised for its classic feel and value. However, its core flaw—unreliable saving (crashes, freezes, lost progress/medals)—and the introduction of ads in later updates severely dampen the experience. Hardware and iOS compatibility and performance issues further frustrate players. When it runs well, it remains a charming, quick, engaging castle-defense title for fans of the genre.

Pros

Nostalgic, classic feel that many players remember from PC/Wii-era games and a refined iOS version.
Fun, quick, casual strategy with meaningful upgrades and a variety of fortifications (e.g., pit, archers tower, stone masons) that keep gameplay fresh.
Compact, reasonably priced, and worth the money for fans who enjoy the genre.

Cons

Persistent save/load problems: game often crashes or freezes when saving, or loses progress and medals across sessions.
Ads introduced in updates to a paid game, disrupting the experience between levels.
Compatibility/performance issues on newer iOS devices and versions, including lag, crashes, and starting/load failures.

Recent reviews

Used to be a 5 star game, but it doesn’t let me save anymore and so I can’t continue my progress, save my purchased fortifications, collect medals etc. I have to start over from the beginning every time I play and it’s kind of sucking the fun out of the game for me. It used to just be press “save” after the round ends and it would think for a sec and save. Then I could leave the app, come back and keep playing where I left off. Now it pulls up a blank white screen with lines on it and a little + sign at the top. I’m assuming they were trying to make a feature to allow you to save multiple different games at once- but it doesn’t work and every time I press the + my app crashes and resets me back to the beginning. All points collected are lost, all fortifications gone. It’s really lame and not fun.

by Ar*****, 2025-07-10

The new update allows saving your game! However, the trade off is ads have been added! I would give it 5 stars, if it weren't for the ads!!!! Dump the ads! This game is paid for! Nobody wants or needs to see them! ::: UPDATE ::: The save works, but now? The medals earned are reset. A Heroic game at level 285 opens with no medals, then adds medals that exist for that game & when the game itself is started. In other words, after saving & closing the game, all medals are lost! Down to 3 stars! Fix it! Sir ~Jazz~ :::UPDATE Oct/24::: Love the game (since Sep/17) No ads! Saves are good! It’s a small program! Even though the walls don’t get higher as you upgrade (like the original), it’s still a lot of fun. Now, I don’t even save the games (about 50 saves now), I just start & see how far I can get with different game options. Get the conversion pit, archers tower, & stone masons tower first. Get all 3 to level 2 & 100 men at each tower, build walls to 1000. Then, just do your thing…