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Castles

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For the unrelated puzzle game, see Castles (2015).

Castles
Castles cover
Developers
Quicksilver Software
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
DOS 1991
Windows (DOSBox) October 21, 2008[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) 2012
Linux (DOSBox) February 14, 2017[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Themes Medieval, Europe
Series Castles
Castles on HowLongToBeat
Castles on IGDB
Castles on MobyGames
Castles on Wikipedia
Castles
Castles 1991
Castles II: Siege and Conquest 1992

Castles is a singleplayer game in the Castles series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Run in DOSBox.
DOS
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes the expansion and Castles II: Siege and Conquest. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Northern Campaign
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Edit CASTLES.BAT[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit CASTLES.BAT.
  3. Remove the casint.exe line and save your changes.

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME.*
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
SAVEGAME.DAT contains a save index and must be present for saves to be loaded.
In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared. Some settings are not stored between sessions.
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Disabled by default (toggle with J).
Full controller support
Must enable at every launch with J (setting is not stored).
Controller remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Toggle with M.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Everything is text-based.
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Can't move down or right with controller

Change joystick timing[citation needed]
  1. Edit the DOSBox configuration file (dosboxCastles1.conf for the GOG.com version).
  2. Change timed=true to timed=false and save your changes.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References