✅ Eye catching pixel graphics
✅ Nice animations & overlays
✅ Controls are responsive

❌ One single stage
❌ Endless mode only
❌ Three enemies in total
❌ Waves differ only by length
❌ Level ups are meaningless
❌ No score, no ranking, no purpose to play for
❌ No replayability

In short, Castle Reborn falls strongly under the category of "looks good on the outside, but empty on the inside." The game doesn't have any actual content beyond a few minutes of button mashing, after which it devolves into a pointless exercise of how long you can last. Even if you like skill based endurance challenges, there wasn't any quality control done on the product.

How do I know? Here's the trick: Run all the way left, face right, spam Z, and fire X (giant wave) to clear the screen when your blue bar fills. Doing this you are literally unkillable. Enemies cannot spawn from beyond the border, nothing tempts you to turn around, and the hulking executioner can't even reach you with his swipes. Sprinkle on top the complete lack of enemy variety, additional stages, or story, and you have a product that jeers both the player and the store that allows it to be sold.

Too harsh? Sorry, not sorry. The issue is that these bare-minimum effort apps have a very specific footprint, and show up in the same places. Low cost bundles, giveaways for like-follow-subscribe, and grey market vendors selling them for pennies on the dollar. It's a seedy economy that has existed since the end of Greenlight, and continues to fester. Consider the game - and the developer catalog - at risk of removal if Valve ever realizes their mistake.

Achievement Hunters: Use the strategy posted above to complete all achievements in ~5 min.

[h3]Though it promises an old school hack n' slash experience, Castle Reborn is a tech demo at best, asset flip at worst, intent on providing the laziest possible experience packaged as a game. Even if you're a collector and/or completionist, I don't recommend it.[/h3] [h3]Pros[/h3] ✅ Eye catching pixel graphics ✅ Nice animations & overlays ✅ Controls are responsive [h3]Cons[/h3] ❌ One single stage ❌ Endless mode only ❌ Three enemies in total ❌ Waves differ only by length ❌ Level ups are meaningless ❌ No score, no ranking, no purpose to play for ❌ No replayability In short, Castle Reborn falls strongly under the category of "looks good on the outside, but empty on the inside." The game doesn't have any actual content beyond a few minutes of button mashing, after which it devolves into a pointless exercise of how long you can last. Even if you like skill based endurance challenges, there wasn't any quality control done on the product. How do I know? Here's the trick: Run all the way left, face right, spam Z, and fire X (giant wave) to clear the screen when your blue bar fills. Doing this you are literally unkillable. Enemies cannot spawn from beyond the border, nothing tempts you to turn around, and the hulking executioner can't even reach you with his swipes. Sprinkle on top the complete lack of enemy variety, additional stages, or story, and you have a product that jeers both the player and the store that allows it to be sold. Too harsh? Sorry, not sorry. The issue is that these bare-minimum effort apps have a very specific footprint, and show up in the same places. Low cost bundles, giveaways for like-follow-subscribe, and grey market vendors selling them for pennies on the dollar. It's a seedy economy that has existed since the end of Greenlight, and continues to fester. Consider the game - and the developer catalog - at risk of removal if Valve ever realizes their mistake. [u]Achievement Hunters[/u]: Use the strategy posted above to complete all achievements in ~5 min.