Cards and Castles Bit Mass LLC Cards and Castles is a combination Collectible Card and Strategy Game! Start by building a deck of cards, then play your… TouchArcade Rating: Free Buy Now Watch Media DetailsCards and Castles is a combination Collectible Card and Strategy Game! Start by building a deck of cards, then play your cards on the battlefield to create fully controllable units, spells, and more! Choose from multiple factions for a unique combination of cards and abilities to use in battle. Collect cards to create more strategies and combos to dominate your opponents and destroy their castle! FEATURES: - FREE TO PLAY - Collectible Card Game CCG - Unique strategy gameplay blended with collectible cards for endless variety and deep tactical play! - Battle against players worldwide to prove your rank! - Multiple factions with their own cards, strengths and weaknesses: Vikings, Crusaders, Warlocks, Pirates, and Ninjas! - Frequent content updates! New cards and game mechanics are released on a regular basis. - Draft mode to create unique decks to battle opponents in the arena! - No pay to win! Obtain every card through gameplay! Love Cards and Castles? Check out the website, like us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter for the latest news: www.cardsandcastles.com facebook.com/CardsandCastlesGame twitter.com/CardsAndCastles Information Seller:Bit Mass LLC Genre:Card, Strategy Release:Apr 10, 2014 Updated:Mar 30, 2020 Version:3.5.52 Size:100.6 MB TouchArcade Rating: User Rating: (8) Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal mikeworld Well-Known Member Oct 10, 2013 265 0 0 #2 mikeworld, Apr 11, 2014 Interesting...... Bewi Well-Known Member May 9, 2012 247 0 0 France, Nord http://iphonesoft.fr #3 Bewi, Apr 11, 2014 Game Impressions I have been playing it on Android for a few days and it deserves some attention. There are not a lot of cards to play at the moment, but an expension is already planed. The existing ones give some room for strategy. There is no solo campaign, but you can play against the computer, for no reward though. You gain what they call Card Points by playing asynchronous fights against other players. Those points give access to a small 6-cards booster. I'm loving it for now and I hope more players will be available for online fights. I don't know if Android players can encounter iOS ones, but that would be great. A ranking system is planed too. Vontre Member Apr 13, 2014 10 0 0 #4 Vontre, Apr 13, 2014 Hi, so I'm the creator of Cards and Castles and I was very concerned when I read this post. We considered this to be a potential issue before launch and implemented several safeguards against lame point-farming which I'm gathering are not working well enough? Our safeguards attempt to detect whether a game is "for real" based on certain metrics like time played, turns taken etc that I won't reveal here, so I'm very concerned if people are surrender-farming anyway. We have the capability to hotfix this immediately from the server side and I plan to review it over the next few days after our showing at PAX. Would you or anyone be interested enough to chime in with more info? It would be greatly appreciated. Vontre Member Apr 13, 2014 10 0 0 #5 Vontre, Apr 13, 2014 Since I'm here I'll answer this quick, yep the android and ios all run on the same servers. Vontre Member Apr 13, 2014 10 0 0 #6 Vontre, Apr 14, 2014 Following up on this, this evening we discovered a bug that was preventing our safeguards on the defeat bonus from working. It should now be much more difficult to effectively farm defeat points. We are still going to review currency acquisition and possibly remove defeat points entirely in the near future. Thank you very much for the report! Bewi Well-Known Member May 9, 2012 247 0 0 France, Nord http://iphonesoft.fr #7 Bewi, Apr 14, 2014 Hi, Maybe you should not award points to people surrendering or letting timeout happen. And about gathering a "perfect" deck by surrendering, I don't think it is really a viable option as it would take a lot of time and effort. I'm still loving the game and waiting for more cards to appear. I would like more boosters to be available. The one with 6 cards for 500 card points is nice, but maybe some others with more or less cards for different prices ? One question : can you get legendary cards with the card points booster ? If no, you should consider adding a booster available with card points that lets a chance to get a legendary. Vontre Member Apr 13, 2014 10 0 0 #8 Vontre, Apr 14, 2014 We recently reduced the defeat bonus to 20, the daily bonus to 20 and the victory bonus to 50. We felt the difference between a regular turn and an end of game was too extreme, the way we're thinking about it now is you have a 10x bonus for victory or 4x for defeat so the individual turn points mean more. We also upgraded the regular boosters, they now give 12 cards and a chance of a double rare. They DO give legendaries as well, but they are very rare (phrasing?) in the normal boosters. No plans to introduce another booster option at this time, but we may consider that in the future. Bewi Well-Known Member May 9, 2012 247 0 0 France, Nord http://iphonesoft.fr #9 Bewi, Apr 15, 2014 I have noticed that you now get 12 cards for 500 card points, that's nice. I'm waiting for ranked games and expansion now mangekyou80 New Member Apr 19, 2014 1 0 0 #10 mangekyou80, Apr 19, 2014 Feature request Is there any plan to add a trading function? I have nearly all the cards so far, and would love to be able to trade my extras to other players for the few that I'm missing. I know I can trade in them in at 1 card per ingame point and have done so, but trading in 250 cards for 18 is a bit rough. Vontre Member Apr 13, 2014 10 0 0 #11 Vontre, Apr 19, 2014 No plans for trading at this time, it's a pretty huge feature and we have higher priorities (live matches and ranked play for starts!) slothwerks Well-Known Member Patreon Silver Feb 8, 2014 267 19 18 http://www.twitter.com/slothwerks #12 slothwerks, Jul 28, 2014 Not sure why there's not more chat about this, I love this game and play every day to get my bonus coins. It's sort of like Hearthstone meets Final Fantasy Tactics. It's a somewhat casual deckbuilding game like Hearthstone, but your guys move on a 2D field, so position has a stronger emphasis. I don't have enough cards yet to make a strong themed deck, but there are a lot of really neat ideas here. melvin2898 Well-Known Member Feb 4, 2011 1,170 0 36 #13 melvin2898, Jul 29, 2014 Yeah, I wish this game had more buzz. It's a really nice game that could blossom into something even bigger. Something that would really help would be an animated series. lol L.Lawliet Well-Known Member Jun 28, 2011 6,405 420 83 #14 L.Lawliet, Jul 29, 2014 I would get into this game but it sounds like it's for online play only. I'd love a campaign or just something I can do solo. Not everyone likes battling online. I don't think I'd play FF tactics if it was an online only battles. slothwerks Well-Known Member Patreon Silver Feb 8, 2014 267 19 18 http://www.twitter.com/slothwerks #15 slothwerks, Jul 29, 2014 There is a campaign, which is actually all I've tried so far. It has maybe 2 dozen(?) levels or so, where you face off versus various themed decks. You also unlock stuff along the way. I spent some money on card packs to throw some money at the dev, but it's totally optional. You unlock a ton of cards just by playing. For a free game, the currency is VERY generous. gmattergames Well-Known Member Mar 1, 2013 607 42 28 #16 gmattergames, Aug 5, 2014 Nice card battler, there is a campaign and AI practice play. AI is decent enough. Currency earning seems fair. Liking it. melvin2898 Well-Known Member Feb 4, 2011 1,170 0 36 #17 melvin2898, Aug 22, 2014 New world! I actually didn't mind the old interface. Did someone complain? Can you please put the coin total back where it was? It's such an annoyance now....Hopefully we can get more scenarios! I have 2 or 3 left. Tutt22 Well-Known Member Mar 5, 2010 190 0 0 #18 Tutt22, Aug 25, 2014 What an awesome little game! Well done! This game should really get more press. LordGek Well-Known Member Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Patreon Bronze Feb 19, 2009 12,282 141 63 Software QA Engineer Saratoga, CA, USA #19 LordGek, Sep 9, 2014 So with this latest Ninja expansion, are those cards now in the general booster pool or ONLY available via the IAP boosters? scape211 Well-Known Member Jun 20, 2012 318 3 18 Graphic Designer #20 scape211, Sep 18, 2014 so i just found this game when looking up good turn based RPGs for the iphone. Was quite surprised it wasn't really talked about on release; its a neat game. I play something a little more complex with the same idea called Conquest of Champions (free card and board battler). However, that game is only Mac/PC right now so this is a nice mobile version in the meantime. Totally worth checking out. Nice job devs! (You must log in or sign up to post here.) Show Ignored Content Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Next > Share This Page Tweet Your name or email address: Password: Forgot your password? Stay logged in
Game Impressions I have been playing it on Android for a few days and it deserves some attention. There are not a lot of cards to play at the moment, but an expension is already planed. The existing ones give some room for strategy. There is no solo campaign, but you can play against the computer, for no reward though. You gain what they call Card Points by playing asynchronous fights against other players. Those points give access to a small 6-cards booster. I'm loving it for now and I hope more players will be available for online fights. I don't know if Android players can encounter iOS ones, but that would be great. A ranking system is planed too.
Hi, so I'm the creator of Cards and Castles and I was very concerned when I read this post. We considered this to be a potential issue before launch and implemented several safeguards against lame point-farming which I'm gathering are not working well enough? Our safeguards attempt to detect whether a game is "for real" based on certain metrics like time played, turns taken etc that I won't reveal here, so I'm very concerned if people are surrender-farming anyway. We have the capability to hotfix this immediately from the server side and I plan to review it over the next few days after our showing at PAX. Would you or anyone be interested enough to chime in with more info? It would be greatly appreciated.
Following up on this, this evening we discovered a bug that was preventing our safeguards on the defeat bonus from working. It should now be much more difficult to effectively farm defeat points. We are still going to review currency acquisition and possibly remove defeat points entirely in the near future. Thank you very much for the report!
Hi, Maybe you should not award points to people surrendering or letting timeout happen. And about gathering a "perfect" deck by surrendering, I don't think it is really a viable option as it would take a lot of time and effort. I'm still loving the game and waiting for more cards to appear. I would like more boosters to be available. The one with 6 cards for 500 card points is nice, but maybe some others with more or less cards for different prices ? One question : can you get legendary cards with the card points booster ? If no, you should consider adding a booster available with card points that lets a chance to get a legendary.
We recently reduced the defeat bonus to 20, the daily bonus to 20 and the victory bonus to 50. We felt the difference between a regular turn and an end of game was too extreme, the way we're thinking about it now is you have a 10x bonus for victory or 4x for defeat so the individual turn points mean more. We also upgraded the regular boosters, they now give 12 cards and a chance of a double rare. They DO give legendaries as well, but they are very rare (phrasing?) in the normal boosters. No plans to introduce another booster option at this time, but we may consider that in the future.
I have noticed that you now get 12 cards for 500 card points, that's nice. I'm waiting for ranked games and expansion now
Feature request Is there any plan to add a trading function? I have nearly all the cards so far, and would love to be able to trade my extras to other players for the few that I'm missing. I know I can trade in them in at 1 card per ingame point and have done so, but trading in 250 cards for 18 is a bit rough.
No plans for trading at this time, it's a pretty huge feature and we have higher priorities (live matches and ranked play for starts!)
Not sure why there's not more chat about this, I love this game and play every day to get my bonus coins. It's sort of like Hearthstone meets Final Fantasy Tactics. It's a somewhat casual deckbuilding game like Hearthstone, but your guys move on a 2D field, so position has a stronger emphasis. I don't have enough cards yet to make a strong themed deck, but there are a lot of really neat ideas here.
Yeah, I wish this game had more buzz. It's a really nice game that could blossom into something even bigger. Something that would really help would be an animated series. lol
I would get into this game but it sounds like it's for online play only. I'd love a campaign or just something I can do solo. Not everyone likes battling online. I don't think I'd play FF tactics if it was an online only battles.
There is a campaign, which is actually all I've tried so far. It has maybe 2 dozen(?) levels or so, where you face off versus various themed decks. You also unlock stuff along the way. I spent some money on card packs to throw some money at the dev, but it's totally optional. You unlock a ton of cards just by playing. For a free game, the currency is VERY generous.
Nice card battler, there is a campaign and AI practice play. AI is decent enough. Currency earning seems fair. Liking it.
New world! I actually didn't mind the old interface. Did someone complain? Can you please put the coin total back where it was? It's such an annoyance now....Hopefully we can get more scenarios! I have 2 or 3 left.
So with this latest Ninja expansion, are those cards now in the general booster pool or ONLY available via the IAP boosters?
so i just found this game when looking up good turn based RPGs for the iphone. Was quite surprised it wasn't really talked about on release; its a neat game. I play something a little more complex with the same idea called Conquest of Champions (free card and board battler). However, that game is only Mac/PC right now so this is a nice mobile version in the meantime. Totally worth checking out. Nice job devs!
