Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 07:03 pm
King or Fail – Castle Takeover – Roleplaying Game Review
King or Fail – Castle Takeover is a Roleplaying/Casual/Entertainment game from SayGames LTD, first launched in 27th February 2023.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 16,280+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes King or Fail – Castle Takeover Stand Out
► ARE YOU A FARMER OR A FIGHTER?
In this fun new idle role-playing game, you’re both, with sidelines in mining, crafting, construction and management too. In fact, you’re a king, with a kingdom to protect, expand and develop, and if you want to succeed there’s a lot of work ahead of you. Start with just a small squad of swordsmen and a few berry trees, then get working to build a city, feed your people, raid enemy castles for resources and experience, expand your army and turn your tiny village into a flourishing and fearsome empire.
► ARE YOU WORTHY OF THE CROWN?
• Turn your swords to plowshares: Start the game farming berries, sell them at market to feed your hungry people and use the coins you make to invest in the development of your kingdom and your wars of conquest.
• …and your plowshares into swords: Spend the profits you make from crafting in this all-action RPG on expanding and upgrading your army, with five different types of soldier to recruit and improve. Turn your small band of raiders into a mighty horde of fiercely armed knights and archers, ready to conquer the known world.
• Head for the longboats: Time management and resource mining aren’t enough: a great king has to prove themselves in battle. So, once you’ve taken care of your subjects’ basic needs, earned coins and upgraded your army, sail off to war, raiding over 90 enemy towns and castles for plunder and XP.
• The builder king: Equip your town with new houses and facilities. The game has over a dozen different types of resources for you to craft into over 150 different new buildings and industries, from warehouses to taverns to luxurious palaces, that will also bring you idle profits when you’re out of the game.
• By royal command: Of course, a king needs soldiers, but you’ll also need a whole host of other workers to keep your kingdom and your idle income ticking over. Hire and upgrade farmers, woodcutters, miners and more to really make your craft empire flourish.
• Go ballista: Start every battle with a bang by using the ballista to hit the enemy where it hurts. Upgrade this powerful weapon to get access to ten increasingly destructive types of projectiles so you can really show the enemy who’s king of the castle!
► ARE YOU READY FOR A ROYAL ADVENTURE?
Download King or Fail now and dive into an all-action RPG that combines crafting, conquest and world-building in a fun and addictive casual format. If you like the idea of role-playing as a hard-working, hard-fighting medieval monarch determined to build the biggest, fiercest, most prosperous kingdom, you’re guaranteed to enjoy King or Fail. Failure—like boredom—just isn’t an option.
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This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, King or Fail – Castle Takeover is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th May 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bugfixes and various improvements
Download & Availability
King or Fail – Castle Takeover is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
We LOVE this game its a fun game but we were having fun and it turn black all of the sudden and we could not play!So we deleted it plz fix.Also theres to many adds plz fix for more players.
This last update really increased some things like wood cutting, but there are some bugs we see as well. First, carrots are unable to be harvested by the king in two of the three rows. Second, the health and attack power were brought back to level one, which is fine since it looks like coins were granted to raise the health and attack level. Even after raising the health level back to where we were previously we are getting one-shot killed by everyone. Im sure there are other bugs Ill run into, but these we noticed within five minutes of playing the new update. Im going to give it a week or so and see if it is fixed, otherwise Ill delete. Its been a fun game, but this makes it almost unplayable.
This game was great until the new update. Now we are completely unable to win battles even with watching like 12 videos to use the catapult. Our king is useless in battles and our attack is as low as the beginning of the game. We upgraded all of our troops as high as we can but its impossible. The new weapons to the update are a good addition but if you have been playing the game it ruins it. We cannot go any further.
We never give reviews, but we had to this time. We play this game daily for hours. We spent our own money. But this update has taken away all our experience in fighting battles and all weapons are now level 1. Almost impossible to win any battles without watching a ton of ads or spending more money… Which we will not do again. We're so frustrated, we're really to the point of just deleting the game. Why do you do this? Thanks for ruining our gaming fun and wasting our money.
We love king or fail Thank you King or fail for making in Level 25 and the best part is at the war there is a bomb to kill the enemy before your army attacks and You can get wood so fast (Dont Listen to the 1 stars).
We love this game omg its so fun.
Every 5 seconds there is an ad too much.
If you like commercials, this is the game for you.
You update the game great and set us back so far from where we were theres no point to continue. Bravo.
The game was a lot of fun until this last updateit allows you to upgrade pass items you need.. Example There is a pit to make charcoal..you can end up upgrading it to the next resource even though you still need charcoalthats where we are stuck now we cant upgrade and progress because we didnt know about it changing one resource to a different one and the game allowing you to do itshould be a warning that you are about to change resources or the game not allow it until you have finished with previous resource first.
Im telling you this is like the best game Ive played it entertains us and we love the Viking times thanks for making this game.
We loved this game so much! We cant wait for more levels. We literally deleted and redownloaded it so we can start over again to keep playing.
One of the funnest games ever at first we thought it would be like to other ones that are Minecraft war or something we dont know but when we started playing we were Bombarded with ads (pro tip)disconnect from Wi-Fi to get no ads dont buy the no ads pass its worthless.
Now it all comes back, we remember the game from before. The game is great, the ads stop you from playing.
Game might be good but you get bombarded with ads. We hit delete.
Played 5 minutes, 4 minutes was ads, with 2 random forced ads. 1 ad was 90 seconds. Wow, what a foul taste. Get it off, get it off! Cant uninstall fast enough! We actually took the time to track down this app to leave this review, it is that bad.
We just wont play or support any game that forces you to watch an Ad every 60 seconds of gameplay. If we like the game we would be willing to spend money to buy no ads, but we have to have be able to play the game more than we watch ads before we can decide. This is just another copycat cash grab game with forced ads.
The game is ok not great. Forced ads, gives a time of 8 minutes or so to buy no ads discount. If buy no more bonuses from ads without buy the tickets. Its from watch ad for bonuses to buy the tickets for bonuses. But it does stop the ads and ads are very numerous and almost unplayable with ads. There is no offline progress on resources at all.
This is a great game!! PLEASE! Add more content. Stuck at level 30, and want to play it some more.
This is a great game. We enjoyed playing it so much that we maxed out at level 30. An update would be awesome.
Really addicting first we thought itd be boring then when we started playing it we couldnt put it down When are they going to have more levels and more weapons and more houses and more resources.
We love the game overall. It has great gameplay,we love getting new soldiers and upgrading them to see their new looks. We enjoy taking some territory for rewards. But when we build one thing or grind coins for a minute or 30 seconds, boom, we get a ad. We really hate how ads can ruin a game with great gameplay. Although theres an ad overload,its addicting. We play this every day when we have the chance. This game is one of the only games with an ad overload that we actually enjoy playing.
Fun game overall but the ads kill it for us. It says you can pay to remove them but we cant figure out where otherwise we would do so.
If you like watching ads, this is the game for you. They throw them at you so often the gameplay is like 70% watching ads.
Cute little game so far but unreasonable amount of ads.
This game is fun but there WAY TOO MANY ads. Its awful there needs to be an option to remove ads.
Come on guys love the game but Im at a wall need to add more content. Lets goo.
We love this game and if you hate the ads well just turn off your wifi and no more ads.
We love this game its like all the games Ive played into 1 could cut down a bit on the ads but besides that its truly a great and addicting game.
The game is great. We do have two suggestions. 1. Pay to be Ad free option. 2. Find a way to optimize power consumption. This game drains the battery.
Pay to remove ads please cant stand ads.
Pretty fun game. We actually check the store from time to time to see if you guys have a released a new game. Ive played a lot of them. Please let us have the ability to purchase no ads from the very beginning.
Attack upgrade in skill menu has no in-game effect.
To many adds . The game also need to be updated and completed.
Great game, turn off wifi to remove ads. Which developers, why bombard ads that heavily? We almost uninstalled with a 1-2 star on how bad the ads are until we saw you can turn them off. Your gameplay is 70-80% ads otherwise. Loaded:ads walked:ads start round:ads end round:ads mid round for ballista:ads upgrade:ads stationary for 30seconds:ads farming:ads ads:doubled up ads idling:ads give your players a chance to play without needing wifi off and this would easily be 4-5 stars but your intentional inconvenience deducts 2 stars in our book. Plenty of better games free with no ads set aside such a copious amount.
The game itself isnt bad, we enjoyed what we could play of it. There are way too many ads though. We decided to delete the game when they started playing through the battle parts of the game. How are you going to have an ad pop up in the middle of storming a stronghold? Dont waste your time or memory on this game.
Game works but every time you do anything theres a video add. Even when you select no video. Ive gotten two videos since we selected write review.
But theres way too many ads. Add a NO ADS button and Ill give you 5 stars.
If we wanted nothing but ads we'd download a game called nothing but ads.
We love the way you chop trees and stuff Ive been looking for a game like this for a long time but there are just too many many ads and no ads is to much money so please just get rid of ads.
Please update game or Im deleting it and wont be starting over.
When we play, we always get ads. For some reason they are always some sort of scam game and the ads will come like every minute to 30 seconds. With our dying soul we beg of you to do less ads.
Ive paid to remove ads, totally worth it. The new update has made us re invest our time into the game BUTTT Ive been stuck for a few days looking for a silver metal to upgrade but we cant find it anywhere??? HELPP.
The recent upgrade has us stuck needing resources we have no clue what they are. Everything is different and moved around. Im so confused.
We have been playing for a bit now and Im on level 50 but none of the locked green zones opened up. At this point we have upgraded the trees, fish, fruit and now Im on a new type of corn and metals! When will the other zones unlock.
Ive been playing for several months daily and truly enjoy this game. We have had a couple of problems with it. It has, on several occasions, taken gold from us but not applied it to the item we were paying. Also, the prices increase much faster than the gold output, even though we continually upgrade all of our items, farm help, all the things. It gets boring running in circles for almost 40 minutes to collect enough for the basic upgrades. The gold and upgrade costs were pretty steady in tandem, but it slowly deviated from that. Losing those coins and having them not be applied after working so long and hard for them is annoying. But we do really enjoy the game itself.
While it seems there are a lot of neat features now, the complete overhaul of the game and its gameplay have us very confused and growing tired of this game we once loved and frequently played. :( can we get a FAQ or something.
We used to love this game but now we cant even complete the next task because it wont let us smelt it.
Been playing this game daily for like a year. They did an update a month or so ago that changed the structure of the game. Now you have points that you accumulate to level the town hall. We are on the mission to level the town hall to level 13 but it wont accept our materials to unlock it even though we are green and have everything we need. We figured maybe it was because we distributed the points all over the types of levels instead of completing the levels as a whole and now Im finding our self on an impossible time consuming path where we have to just beat the castles to get more points. Its been a month of this and Im frankly just over it. We know there wasnt much to the old game and we appreciate the update. But the game is just unplayable so this point.
Loved the game then life got in the way n we havent been able to play for a few months came back to a completely different village n nothing worked the same really disappointed.. Deleted the game cuz it wouldnt let us start over.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.33.5
- Size: 276.77 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: SayGames LTD
Last updated: 27th May 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Casual | Developer: SayGames LTD