Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 11:41 am
Land and Castles – RTS – Action Game Review
Land and Castles – RTS is a Action/Strategy game from Andrew Moloney, first launched in 11th March 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,686+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Land and Castles – RTS Stand Out
Epic real-time strategy for everyone.
Build your kingdom, settle, explore, battle with knights and conquer enemy castles! A RTS game designed for iPhone, iPad and now macOS.
• 41 Levels
• Multiplayer
• Map Editor
• Skirmish mode
• Pixel art graphics
• Intuitive interface
Includes boats, farms, strongholds, villages, fog of war, auto-save and more!
Play online with your friends or offline against bots. Create your own scenario in Skirmish mode, add computer players with varying levels of difficulty and play on unique maps created by the automatic map generator or use the map editor to design your own. Quests include a tutorial for new players. It's easy to learn and play with 120 FPS support on capable devices.
Download now and start building your empire!
Website and support are available in English only.
Playing custom maps requires the "Plus" in app purchase.
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Land and Castles – RTS is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Big 5 year update!
NEW FEATURES:
- New Levels
- New battle animation
- Gravestones
- Game Center for multiplayer
- Daily rewards for new players
- Knight path animation (when knight selected and moving, path is shown)
- Map coordinates axis
DESIGN & UI:
- New Icon
- Improved menu and UI
- Improved tech tree interface
- New fog of war shape
- Improved scoreboard
TECHNICAL:
- Refactored entire codebase
- Dynamic Island improvement for iPhone 15+
- Upgraded online infrastructure
- Improved loading time
- Upgraded to latest APIs
LOCALIZATION:
- New languages
- Updated translations
MORE:
- Minor improvements to quests
- Online indicator
- New Anmoco splash screen
- Automated account deletion process
- Swapped Twitter icon for X icon
Thank you for playing, if you have any issues, please email [email protected].
- Andy (The Developer)
Download & Availability
Land and Castles – RTS is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Land and Castles – RTS 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:
The island for the selfie camera is blocking our whole view of the materials and we have to keep swiping up to see how much we have but overall a good game would keep playing if this gets fixed its just an inconvenience.
Really like the game. Simple playable fun, Even though Im coming across some issues with the computers being able to pass through trees and rocks when we cant. Or computer seems to have quicker resource and troop rates.
The Chinese language option is unavailable. Clicking it will not switch the language. Attempting to switch to another language (e.g., Japanese) will cause the game to revert back to English by default after a restart.
This is a great game and can probably be really decent if it fixes a few things. First, the game is basically a pay to play. Theres missions (which we have to admit is fun) but once youre done those you have the online feature and skirmish. The online feature doesnt work for us, and the skirmish cost pro. Plus you can make maps but you cant even plumage them unless you get pro. We spent a great deal of time making a map just to get disappointed that it was all for nothing. All in all its a great game, lots of potential, but needs more work.
Over Powered Computer opponents has made this game so bad.
We like the game wish there was more ways we could attack like naval ships and maybe horse and maybe some cool effects here and there.
We can't wait to see more game features. The simplicity of the game is stellar, but we think some new units, and battling animations, would be awesomely.
We have been looking for a game with simple controls, luck based for a while.
Its a really good game, but theres something we have to say that couldve been the second best game ever for us but to say that it really crushed us into the negative floor when we completed absolutely everything so Ill get a five star if theres any more than a five star Im not gonna go over that its not more than a five star, but Im just gonna make it a five starso it couldve been the best but really crushed us down.
We would highly recommend this game if your looking for a interesting take on a strategy game. Very fun game play and premise. Love the game.
We love it. Ive only done the beginning quests so far, but it does demonstrate critical thinking, and there are many different strategies that you can use throughout. We havent really played anything like it, and its also pretty chill. Nice work, devs.
We bought the perks and its worth it , its amazing been playing all day.
This is by far the best mobile game out there its so fun to play on the go but we would like the bugs to be fixed and multiplayer but amazing good work.
This game is creative and unique, fun and becoming more customizable. But, there should be more troop types in the game.
Amazing game. Played through everything twice. Only complaint is the ai is too easy. If anyone reads this and wants to play online Im 5dollarfootlong.
Its a great Mini RTS with map editing and now with online play too, definitely worth getting.
Love everything about it, the theme, gameplay and art is immaculate.
The game is great. We wanted to purchase the full game but the button for it doesnt work. Literally trying to give you our money but we cant. We tried deleting the game and redownloading it but it still doesnt work. Please fix this.
Fun game but controller support would be 5 stars.
Good game actually we like it only that sometimes it freezes or cancel the quests.
To be very honest, we though that this game would get boring fast! ( Not trying to be a Royal Match advertiser), this game was actually pretty addicting then we had anticipated. Sure the controls, buttons, and functions were pretty confusing. But all and all, this gets, thrillingAh look at us, Im acting like we get paid to do thisMabye.
Its fun but theres couple things. The title of the game made us think it was like another popular game thats in pc. Which its close but more mission based. Also theres forces ads after each mission. Other than that Id recommend it.
Its great you have multi player but when ever we join multiplayer we dont have any servers to join is that because of where we live or something else.
The only reason why Im not giving this 5 stars though is because it can get pretty glitchy when playing online, to the point where it doesnt even function. So, if you make online better we will definitely give this game a 5 stars. Also in quests it wont let us do quest level 16, saying that we need to buy it, even though the color for level 16 is red.
The extra twists in the raid and seige game modes are fun. The tech research tree gets maxed out very quickly, and there is some RTS snowballing where getting a majority lets that player grow that majority ever easier and easier. We wish there were more unique playstyles possible.
This game has a great concept however try to add more buildings units etc.
The issue with this game is its never updated, has too many ads and pay walls, and the game gets old. Its a great concept but needs work. 5/10.
The iPhone 15th max has a screen cutout that cuts off functions of the game. Even if you were to go from vertical to horizontal you will find it prevalent. Please fix, thanks.
First we need to say its a good game and a little over 5 dollars for the full version is a steal. But what confuses us is the fact it says paying for the full game unlocks 8 new quests which we would assume would be the last 8. But that doesnt explain why everything from the 6th quest on is in locked status. It also says paying for the full version disables ads which we havent seen any of in the free version yet. But itll be hard to get us to watch an ad since we cant do anything else since we already cleared the 5th quest and online play is broken we know after saying all that 3 stars seems like a high review. But tbth its a good game.
Loved the game but we cant play quest 6 or anything else in the app. We dont know if it is frozen and bugged or simply blocked and we dont know but we wish we had more of the game.
Love the aesthetic and simple gameplay. Troop movement is messy to the point where it's actually quite frustrating towards the end game. If the devs fix this then we would spend money on it. The biggest problem is that when you send a soldier to a location, it frequently gives up midway because its path was temporarily blocked. It's really frustrating when your basic game controls only sometimes work. They also constantly shuffle around the rally point for no reason while blue stands in the way doing absolutely nothing. Other than being distracting, it traps soldiers in the middle. To use your own troops it's like untangling necklaces quickly while they're spinning. It's not fun, mostly anger inducing because you're usually in a hurry. Simple fix: Let them walk past each other and don't allow them to give up when you send them to a location. Smaller problems with movement: New spawns take a really long time to start heading towards the rally point. We don't see why it's not immediate. Sometimes soldiers go to an old rally point and stay there for a while. They also take very meandering routes and you can't help them by placing grass blocks. We think this can be fixed by running the path finding algorithm at each step or every other step.
You can download the game for free but to play the actual game offline or online you need to pay $5 for it.
It is torture looking at the skirmish and not being able to DO IT MAKE IT FREEEEEEEE.
Great game and does have a great potential but their is so much premium that makes it in fun to play.
We dont know what they did to the AI, but its way more passive now. Quests or skirmishes arent a challenge anymore because the boys cant seem to remember how to attack, and will actively avoid combat to build more structures. Really wish theyd revert that change, but its otherwise a solid, basic rts.
The game is way too expensive but is still pretty good! We hope it replaces the micro transactions with ads, Id really prefer that.
Its a great game and an awesome concept but the things you actually want to do in the game are locked behind transactions. Its relatively cheep to unlock all of the features as well as help out the developer but if you are like us, you dont pay for app games. It would be genuinely more fun if all features were unlocked for free for everyone. Thank you.
All of the connections to servers are broken in this game. You cannot connect to anything and you cannot purchase the game because of it. Thus you are stuck with ads and cant even access half of the game.
We love this game, its super addictive. We completed quests 1 through 15. Tried to play 16 and it told us we had to unlock the full game. We were willing to pay, but no matter how many times we click on the buy now button, nothing happens. It will not let us unlock the rest of the game, So we guess we cant play any more. Playing on an iPhone 16 so its not our phone. Will give 5 stars if this is fixed.
Every time we load in it says error and we can only play quests we love the game but we want to play online devs if you have a solution please tell us your game is great we just am new.
To play Offline cost money? Couldnt get an online game for like 10 minutes of waiting so unfortunately immediately delete, could be good if only offline didnt cost 6 bucks and online didnt take literally forever to find a game.
There are lots of buttons and that put a pretty big hit on our (your) attention span. Theres also no tutorial and we dident know how to play.
Interesting game, but the dynamic island on iPhone 15 Pro Max cuts off important UI elements no matter which orientation you use. We really hope this gets fixed.
The random combat generator feels unfair most of the time. Enemies are able to defeat a 4 dot guy with fully upgraded combat percentages when they only have one dot. We were playing and one enemy wiped our entire village it just needs to be made better imo.
Ever since Ive had this game like back in August this year, Ive never been able to play online. It would just load forever Ive let it set there for 10-15 minutes and gave up. Ive seen reviews saying people playing online but somehow we cant.
Excellent mix of simple , strategic, and well paced.
We thought it was fun. Give it a try.
Theres already so many games that want you to spend money to gain skins.
Would be a 5 star is bugs were worked out. On skirmish, we get a red x on areas we should be able to put land as well as on our own castles. We cant upgrade.
We like the simplistic game play. A little odd when the units sort of go off and do there own walking. Its a little off when you start getting a few to many units and a big map. And setting waypoints is ok, but is it for all of the buildings or do we need to do it individually for each keep? Thats a little misunderstood. Maybe Ill do the tutorial again. Still fun little command and conquer game play. Id give it 5 for solid replay except for the units walking off sometimes when we dont think we intended to move them. Again maybe thats our fault. And how do we get coins? Is that strictly by purchasing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.0.3
- Size: 129.38 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Andrew Moloney
Last updated: 8th September 2025 | Genre: Action, Strategy | Developer: Andrew Moloney