One thing is patently clear about Neptune Interactive Inc.: this small Canadian developer loves fantasy. When playing their inaugural game, The Castle Game, it is easy for one to lose track of all the references. The main menu looks like the war room map from Dragon Age: Inquisition. There are enemies that look like World of Warcraft’s Taurens, the frost giants look like White Walkers straight from Game of Thrones, and so on. Lamentably, the actual game they have created is less than the sum of these parts.
Neptune Interactive Inc.’s founder and lead developer Ayngaran Vamatheva had a lot to say about his studio’s latest project, the Castle Game, and Tyler Hodgkinson had plenty of questions. That’s a pretty good matchup.
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The tower defence genre is more popular on mobile phones and tablets than consoles nowadays, with some of the biggest names having mainstream television adverts in order to entice you dive in a build your empire. Neptune Interactive give you the chance to defend yourself against wave after wave of enemies that attack your base. Your aim is to wipe them out before they get a chance to do too much damage to your fortifications and your castle.
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It was during that most disgusting era of human history, the Middle Ages, where the famous Genghis Khan used catapulted bubonic corpses to spread the plague into the cities and castles that the roving conqueror intended to take. While that option strangely never shows up, you can instead spend some time shooting arrows and casting lightning onto the undead in The Castle Game, a passable tower defense game and winner of the Incredibly Literal Title award. While the battles in-game will prove much less offensive and exciting action than those of the real-world Middle Ages, they can at the very least waste an afternoon or two on some solid old-school fun.
