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Heroes and Castles Premium – Strategy Game Review
Heroes and Castles Premium is a Strategy/Entertainment/Action game from Foursaken Media, first launched in 17th January 2013.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 291+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Heroes and Castles Premium Stand Out
The Undead Horde and their Orc and Goblin allies are at your castle gates, the King is on the brink of death, and only you stand between the enemy and complete annihilation! Choose one of many powerful heroes, summon an army to fight beside you, and defend your castle in Heroes & Castles, a seamless blend of 3rd person Action-RPG, Strategy, and Castle Defense elements!
—–FEATURES—–
CASTLE DEFENSE, STRATEGY, AND ACTION-RPG GAMEPLAY!
Take to the battlefield in an immersive 3rd person perspective, summon entire armies to fight beside you, and defend your castle to the death! Fight in the middle of a huge battle that you control!
UNIQUE, POWERFUL HEROES!
Level up, learn new skills and abilities, find randomized Runes and loot, and destroy your enemies with one of many unique heroes!
SUMMON HUGE ARMIES TO FIGHT BESIDE YOU!
Summon Dwarves, Archers, Pikemen, Giants, Catapults, Mages and much more to aid you in your defense! Watch them battle the enemy right beside you!
BUILD AND UPGRADE YOUR CASTLE!
Build Towers, upgrade your castle walls, and build buildings to upgrade your units!
2 PLAYER COOPERATIVE MULTIPLAYER!
Team up with a random ally or one of your friends and compete in the GameCenter leader boards!
TONS OF ENEMIES TO BATTLE!
Fight against dozens of enemies on screen at once, from hordes of the Undead, to Orcs, Goblins, Ghouls, Siege Wagons, Trolls, Catapults, Mummies, and more!
ADVANCED GRAPHICS AND TONS OF FEATURES!
Incredible mobile graphics and lighting, iCloud saving, full iPhone 5 widescreen display support, and much more!
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Heroes and Castles Premium is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th August 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Heroes and Castles Premium is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Heroes and Castles Premium on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great combat, endless fun imo. Still works on the iPhone years later, thank you!! Your new game Magic v Metal is similar but newer, and has the same feeling. Its incredibly.
Ive played this game on multiple devices since around the year it came out, we have yet to find any other games that are as fun as the ones created by these developers here. Thank you guys for always making games that are a blast.
Love the game buy if you upgrade the troops and buildings too much you can never beat siege mode again because 20 skeletons cant kill a single peon.
Well developed game. We wish it would get more updates and maybe aonline versus mode. Overall excellent game.
This is one of our favorite games to play along with the InfinityBlade games. We find much joy in this game over the new one. It would be cool to see you guys update this game again and add the siege mode for Corte as well. This would definitely be a fun one to lay siege on! It would be interesting to see a siege mode like H&C added to the new H&C2. Again, this is a great game fun campaign and storyline.
Are the servers still up and running for online.
Great game. Not P2W like other games and the premium version is worth it for the extra characters.
Ive been playing this game since it first came out, it is clearly in our opinion the best mobile game out there, we do t know if anyone will read this but we hope youll download to give it a try, worth the money.
We know that someone might not see this but Ive been knowing if and playing this game since like 2017 Ive also loved this game and we finally got back into it and started grinding Ive gotten to lvl 40 assassin and around 10-20 others and we just logged back on and everything is gone all our progress and data,also when we restored passed purchases they didnt come,if there is any developer that sees this we were wondering if there is anything we could do.
Always been one of our favorite games. Always end up redownloading to play through again.
Its a surprise to us how little is spoken of this game. A game that comprises elements of an RPG with nine distinct classes and of a tower defense style with a third-person feel to it. Dont forget the units on each side so either. Allies ranging from a simple and humble peon to the destructive and intimidating force of a giant. Enemies that comprise of unending walls of flesh an decay in the undead and the savage and barbaric greenskins. We say give this game a try. Youll have a blast playing plus purchases are minuscule at best.
This is the only iPad game we have never deleted. Its endless, SO many levels, and so challenging! But not as frustrating as most money-grubbing mobile games. The key is, spend 6 bucks right away to unlock all the hero classes, then you will never have to pay again unless you just want to reward this company for making an amazing game. Complete each level with every hero and you have enough crystals to keep everything upgraded. This really gets your strategic mind working and despite how challenging it is, is really soothing after a long day. This game can last you years, no kidding.
We have been playing this game sence it came out and at first it was easy to find a multiplayer match…now for us its very difficult we really want this game to come back to life please atart to have adds to show people about this game iy deserves a lot more please we also have some suggestions.Make a siege mode we really think people would play it if there was .. Also add more troops,and just work on the game in general…oh we also have a lvl 60 paladin we dont know why… Its gone and we cant get him back:( we had all of the campaign completePlease fix this game and make it right.
We played this game since we were 9 now im 14 and we like it guys if you want to get better guys just upgrade them and the reason why it doesnt work for some people is because some of those electronics are old And maybe this requires newier electronics like iPad Air 2.
One of the best games Ive ever played. Im back to download it after finally beating the sequel after a year. Both this and the second are absolute masterpieces and deserve every ounce of respect and penny given. Also this is the only has siege mode where you can play as the undead, main reason why Im coming back.
Written on: April 03, 2018 As the title suggests, this was the year we brought this app and 2013 lives on through it! This one is definitely different from its sequel, being that this one we feel is a bit more strategic streamlined vs the sequel which is more tactical RPG. While the second continuation does greatly improve on a lot of things this has to accomplish that, it also discards some things from the first too. Such as the ability to have multiple small background info through it's different skins, some unit buildings that were essential to this game, and while this little annoyance is small it annoys us sometimes: units walked out from your castle instead of just popping in. Although the second one does look and is vastly improved, upon returning to this one, it did make us realize that we miss the unit buildings but, all these are just little observations. Overall, this is still a great game today and while we might be annoyed; it's a sacrifice for the much improved second installment.
Foursaken, This game is amazing. Thankyou for all the work you have put into it so far! We've been looking for something like this since we got an iPod touch. We have never played an iOS game that was this deep, engaging, or challenging. We love the difficulty level! If the game was easy it would have grown old quickly and just become a spam fest. The later stages of the campaign really force you to sit down and plan out your defenses. We were shocked to get such a great update so quickly, and we're definitely looking forward to what else you will be adding. We also appreciate how balanced the currency system is. We never feel like you guys are grabbing for our wallet. We gladly payed for all the new content in the update (the Mage is BY FAR our favorite character), but there is no "freemium wall" that you sometimes hit in games with IAP's. A couple constructive criticisms: 1. The game becomes laggy to the point of being unplayable when we turn "iPod On" in the options screen. We have an iPod touch 4, so it may just be the fact that we have a slightly older divice. It would be nice to be able to listen to the new our Bloody Valentine album while hacking up skeletons. 2. Unit A.we. Could use some slight improvements. It can be kind of frustrating when we have 12 pikemen on the field and they all go for the closes Orc while there are five others attacking our walls. This is by no means a deal breaker, but it would be nice to have a couple tweaks implemented that make our units "smarter." Some wishfull thinking: It would be really cool to be able to climb the walls and fight with the archers and riflemen. 50 gold for a pot of boiling oil to dump on the heads of the enemy? HAHA! Overall, this game is a CLASSIC. Well done guys. We're going to be coming back to this game for a LONG TIME, and we just downloaded Bug Heroes and Bug Heroes Quest. We're looking forward to tearing up your back catalogue. Keep up the good work and bring us more heroes to play with.
This game is definitely worth the pay to play. There is a variety of character to unlock and level up as play wave after wave of undead, goblin, trolls, and other different creatures. You can play with friends on this as we play with our brother on this, unfortunately it only goes up to two people per game. The Siege mode that allows people to play on the enemy side is very fun but can tricky to play when you level up your units and castles as they will be the ones fighting you in Siege. Complaints: Please update for IOS11, make it impossible to play on the multiplayer features but other than that it is a great game.
Hours of fun. Get to play good and bad side. Lots of different units and buildings with their own upgrades. Heroes all have special abilities both passive and active. Would be neat if it was easier to play against or with others.
Can't wait till they make another game.
It does not work! Every time we click play and then campaign it kicks us out of the game! Why? We dont know why but we do not know if we should blame the game or not, but we are going to leave it in the middle. Will update if we figure out the problem.
We just made a couple of purchases on this game but it reset somehow and our purchases are not restoring.
Went to play the campaign closed the app soon as we entered the campaign fix this now.
Good overall game but in certain rounds (particularly stage 9 of Corte, you cannot keep a ours for more than 30 seconds), the game will magically destroy your gold mines periodically, even if fully upgraded with no bombers (which are already unnecessarily problematic) in the area. Fighting tough enemies can be fun, but not taxation.
We bought a couple items off this game went off for a little while and when we open the game back up all our campaign progress was lost and everything we bought said it had it be unlocked again.
Every time we try to join our friends game it just crashes! SO FRUSTRATING.
We've been playing for quite a while now, and it's still fun! We've gifted this app for two other buddies. Definitely worth the money.
Play this game almost everyday , need to make more games like this on the iPad , also add different century's ancient ,modern day ww1'ww2, etc.
This is one of the best games ever.
Great game, many characters, great game play. Highly recommend.
This app is addicting! More people need to get on multiplayer :).
Amazing gameplay. A real challenge that is a joy to play. Hope for a new castle.
Very fun, lots of replayability with the various heroes. You have to learn the strength/weakness of each hero to maximize their potential.
This was a fantastic purchase, our friend introduced us to it and we love it! It gives you great options in character choice so you're not stuck with just a single person. We hate to see these comments talking about how you "have to pay to advance in the game" no, you don't! We earned every single crystal that we have gotten, and we've been able to get all of the characters and we're close to finishing all of our upgrades.
All we can say is it's a good app worth the money.
It delete all our date when we played it with out wifi.
Plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz make it so your castle doesn't start over when u play next mission instead make it so your castle doesn't start over every mission and u keep the units that don't die when u win plz make this update.
All of our units are upgraded all the way and we can't see all the extra armor it gives them but everybody else online can PLZ HELP ME.
We've put hours upon hours into this game and they have been extraordinarily rewarding. If you see a level 99 Engineer running around on co-op like a madman, that is probably us.
Too good to be true, worth your money, and we believe the app deserves more attention.
Great game worth all the money we paid for! Endless fighting and dominating your enemy, we would recommend this game to anyone who needs som action.
This game is awesome. We wish there was a way to fight against other people where you have to defend your castle and attack someone else's castle.
Could you add more heroes siege and normal. Could you make more upgrades too! Thanks.
We lost 50 damage and 10 lvld on our knight but no other heroes were effected Another problem siege is fun but is highly unfair first off wormwood tree is very vulnerable and there's no way to upgrade its life 2 the good side has tons of money, and seemingly endless population.
Amazing game , especially for the price. Endless amount of gameplay and heroes/units. Just buy it.
Bit expensive but so worth it, graphics are great and gameplay intense and exciting, every level is engaging, so many interesting strategies to use Super addictive and SO AMAZING.
This game is worth every cent! You get so much with this game. The description and images do not even begin to describe how fun this game is. A few things we like: Gameplay options- you can play the campaign as many different races, all with their own different abilities and play styles, meaning you can find your favorite character and train him up, or try them all! Done with campaign, there is a SECOND campaign that's even harder! You can also play as the enemy, play endless mode, or play coop with your friends as your favorite character Difficulty- Games these days have gotten way too easy. It's like it's trying not to make you try twice on a level. However this game is actually challenging. Once withers come in, it becomes really challenging. You have to work with your progress and failures are always your fault, not unfair game elements. Currency- Well not really currency, but how the game manages buying other things. We've heard people complain about these, but really they aren't hard to get. You use them to purchase new characters to use, new runes to give you an edge, and upgrade your units. These aren't imbalanced at all, you get these runes at the end of every game you play, in any game mode. Of course you can buy them, but you are in no way forced to. Multiplayer- we were originally told about this game by a friend, and as soon as we had a character of a decent level we were playing with him all the time. Makes it so much fun. There are occasionally problems with multiplayer, but when we get playing we're having too much fun to care Anyway just get it. So fun 5/5.
Absolutely brilliant 3D graphics seem less character motions and endless gameplay totally worth the money we spent on it.
LOVE the game. We think you should make a campaign for Evil, and level up evil heroes, but we love the game otherwise.
What an Amazing game, endless possibilities and fairly active gameplay. Great replay value and isn't a pay to win.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.1.1
- Size: 503.99 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Foursaken Media
Last updated: 24th August 2017 | Genre: Strategy, Entertainment | Developer: Foursaken Media