Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 06:14 pm
Medieval: Defense & Conquest – Simulation Game Review
Medieval: Defense & Conquest is a Simulation/Strategy game from Vojtech Jesatko, first launched in 13th January 2023.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 7,625+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Medieval: Defense & Conquest Stand Out
Unique mix of wave tower defense, war strategy, idle game, and kingdom management warrior game – all created by me as a single developer.
Discord: https://discord.gg/ekRF5vnHTv
You are a medieval knight, serving your king as a mercenary. Impressed by your victorious battles and leadership skills, the king offers you a chance of a lifetime – sail on a crusader ship to a new island and start a settlement there.
You will be in charge of both the settlement’s military and economy. Your goal is to build up the crusader settlement, profit from trade and farming, and then use the income to improve your army and defenses. Strong walls manned by archers and ballistas will help you withstand constant enemy attacks. To defend your settlement, you will need to train your army, upgrade equipment, and research new unit types to grow your empire.
Then, once your economy is up and running and your crusader army grows in size and power, it’s time to go on the offensive and start expanding your stronghold. Attack enemy outposts, conquer their walls, and turn them into a new source of income for your growing colony and warrior empire.
Welcome, future king! Your first task is to build up your small village on the coast of an unexplored island. Starting with just a simple wooden fence and a modest fort, you need to grow your defences and train your crusader soldiers to be able to defend yourself against endless waves of enemies.
To be able to withstand constant enemy attacks, you will have to:
• Train your soldiers from simple peasants to experienced warriors
• Build up defences and strenghten your stronghold's walls
• Place skilled archers and terrifying ballistas on your walls
• Use your blacksmith to get better swords and armors
• Craft more powerful bows and sharper arrows
• Clash for survival against hordes of powerful enemies
• Defeat epic bosses who will try to destroy your village
As your power grows, you will soon have the opportunity to take the initiative from your enemies and go on the offensive. Start conquering small neighbouring outposts – take them, build up their economy, and start earning passive idle income even when offline!
Together with trading ships, skilled merchants, farmers, and profits from repelled enemies, you will soon be able to build up even better defences, expand your network of money-making outposts, earn more money farming valuable crops, and conquer and unite the whole island under your just rule.
Medieval: Defense & Conquest features:
• 70+ enemy unit types with unique stats and skills
• Boss levels with giant enemies
• 40+ enemy outposts to conquer and develop your economy
• Beautiful pixel art game map and characters
• Idle income and trade progress works even when you are offline
• Your own village, trading ship, merchants, blacksmith, farm
• Upgradable soldiers, knights, archers, and fast horsemen at your service
• Walls which can grow from simple wooden fence to a massive stone castle wall
• Archers who can be placed on your walls to improve passive defence
• Ballistas to boost your defensive efforts
• Merchants and trading ships as source of income
• Bank which automates collecting gold from your outpost colonies
• Skilled blacksmith to improve your gear, armor, swords, and sharper arrows
• …and more fun stuff being added with each future update!
About me
My name is Vojtech, I'm a solo game developer based in the Czech Republic and I created this game without any external funding – big thanks to everyone who provided valuable feedback and support!
New content is constantly being added to Medieval: Defense & Conquest to provide more depth and a smoother experience – please send me your feedback and suggestions so that I can improve the game even further and support its future development and new projects. Thank you for playing!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Medieval: Defense & Conquest is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd March 2023
Recent improvements include:
Small bugfixes and database optimization, ad consent screens updated.
Download & Availability
Medieval: Defense & Conquest is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Medieval: Defense & Conquest 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 only thing that needs to get fixed is the coins you earn from battles because leveling up is hard because you dont make enough coins per battle.
Pressed the starter pack deal pay for $8.99 that said it was 20% off its original price and our card was charged $30.59.
Yo, we just love this game. We dont have the horses, we just like horses. Okay guys, love you, bye bye.
Very fun game but we wish they had more lands.
This game has to be one of our favs Im always grinding but the adds are a lot but great game.
Ive played this game for 2 weeks and conquered 2 island and on the way to the 3rd. Im not really sure if there is anything after this or if its just the same. After we conquered the 1 Island we thought we would see different units such as mages and goblins that we could use ourselves. It seems we reached the maximum the game could offer for now. Extreme potential. Hopefully they will add more stuff later. To everyone who is wondering, the diamonds are supposed to be used to build you castle. Prioritize doing that to speed you yours troops spam and the game will be easy. After you conquer an Island we receive diamonds. Its worth it. We will be back after a couple months and hopefully there will be more stuff. For now – uninstalling In game profile – Ghost.
Its simple, fun and easy to get started. Love it.
With out buying gems you will be grinding this out for day and hours 5$ for ad free plus minimum 2$ for 10 gems is high.
OMG thx for lowering the prices in bought so may gems also can ya update.
This game is the first mobile game in a while that doesnt feel like a copy of everything else. Its so original, its refreshing.
The amount of hard decisions we made in this game is great because as a king in reality, you need to also make hard decisions.
Very good game and a must try go.
We dont write many reviews but when we do the game is either incredible or terrible and this one may be have to be one of our favorite games. A few of the reasons we like this game is the art style the gameplay and the simple design. We also love and thank the creator for only making the no ads only $4 USD unlike others that make you pay hundreds to remove back to back ads. Other than those things we dont have much else to say except thank you and we hope everyone who reads this or not has a beautiful day everyday. Also heres a cookie because you read this entire long paragraph.
An amazing game that does not have an excess of forced but skippable ads, which then allows you to actually immerse yourself in the dynamics which are a fun in an incremental kind of way.
Best game over ever had the chance to play and it's not bad at grinding, usually games either are "pay to play/win" or you grind soo much only to get so little progress but this one is very balanced. It's honestly one of our favorite games to play.
Addicted since we played it amazing game and very fun.
Good game so far. However sometimes we accidentally click retreat. If there was another message asking if Im sure we want to retreat that would be great.
This games takes all worrys away, fight endless battles, upgrade your units theres so much to do the possibilities are endless, thanks for making the best game ever.
This game really got the stress out of us.
This game improved our quality of life, got us in shape and got us a supermodel girlfriend (ok, thats a lie, 2/3 aint bad though). Great to have going on in the background while we focus on daily tasks, its like getting a reward in game for boring real life accomplishments. Truly beautiful design, paying to remove ads was absolutely worth it for a seamless experience.
Love it, its refreshing to play a game like this.
We have just downloaded this game on August third, 2024, and we love it! The game has pressure, because some elders and other attackers were attacking our wall! We were on Wave 7 when that happened. This game is possibly one of the best mobile games we have ever played! Good job on whoever made this! And sure, theres a lot of ads, but this game deserves it because its somehow free! Czech version: Tetho srpna 2024 jsem si sthl tuto hru a moc se mi lb! Hra m tlak, protoe nkte star a dal tonci toili na mou ze! Byl jsem na sedm vln, kdy se to stalo. Tato hra je mon jedna z nejlepch mobilnch her, kter jsem kdy hrl! Dobr prce pro toho, kdo to vytvoil! A jasn, je tam spousta reklam, ale tahle hra si to zaslou, protoe je tak njak zadarmo.
Good game, just is such a grind. Please add more flavour and unique things to the game, all 3 islands feel much the same and the progression is slow and painful.
Its a real fun game we just dont like the ads, other than that, its really fun.
Game is some good simple fun, but ive noticed a couple bugs that make it a little worse. The biggest one is that the trading post doesnt have anything to collect after starting a long 1hr or 8hr sell to make some gold, and it doesnt make any.
Its a great game, fun concept for sure. But once you figure out the best strategy, you can blow through an island in a couple days without buying anything. Just wish there was more to spend money on or to upgrade, because you can complete ever island without buying blacksmith upgrades or castle upgrades. Look forward to seeing if they add more.
We love this game we think the pacing is really great but we wish there wasnt so many ads.
Ive had this game for over a month now. Its definitely a solid game for playing against waves of enemies with your own upgradable armies. Though it can be as simple or complicated as you wish it to be. In reality theres not too much needed to progress through the storyline. Which makes it appealing to younger audiences who may desire this style of game (or adults trying to encourage this genre onto the children in their lives). But it still allows for certain styles or flair to combat and general gameplay. Pros and cons: its a solid game with decent graphics and scratches that medieval combat itch when Im away from our cpu. It is engaging with different ways to earn gold and a generous way to earn diamonds (in game purchasable currency) thats directly tied to game progress. And one part that sets this company apart from others is their choice of ad placement. All of the ads are optional except when defending the waves of attackers for gold. Every three to five waves has an advertisement. The rest of them are optional with worthwhile rewards for watching them. The cons are that it can be overly simple with gameplay after the first island (maybe allow access to different troop types that we see from the enemy side? Or use archer and ballista mechanics for the enemy side to increase difficulty? Would love to see more freedom of creativity from the devs) the graphics and troop movement could be better polished and updated (not a big deal personally. But when enemy troops walk over their wall when defending an attack its not the best for imersion) other than that Im looking forward to continuing to play this game. Thank you devs for the hard work youve put in already and we hope that yall get the opportunity to update the game and expand upon it.
Very few games in mobile tend to impress us anymore but the simplistic bit style of this game along with the gameplay never cease to bore us, its very well crafted with its ambitious mixture of genres. For a singular developer this is amazing, kudos to you, if you need to kill time this is a great game to do so.
Were you inspired by the game GrowCastle? It is similar to that game. A few suggestions would be quests to complete or daily quests, a skill tree to improve, and maybe a wizard enemy if that isn't a thing.
We absolutely love the game but devs. Please add some other ways to get gems to keep gameplay rewarding. Such at watching ads for some good amounts of gems and adding rogue-like dungeon game mode or a daily challenge mode with a set gold amount to spend on a defense to gain a medium amount of gems.
Simple and fun, gives a good challenge that scales over time allowing you to try different tactics and strategies over different islands. Trying new tactics may give you new challenges, and choosing what to update first or focus on, or to try to beat an island with only a single unit type are fun things to do, and you keep your bank upgrades between islands or when starting over, so your offline earnings get bigger the longer you play, letting you upgrade faster. Definitely recommend.
Love this game, the developer did a really good job on making something that has everything you want out of a mobile game. Plus, it has probably 80% less ads then all other games we have.
We usually play this game offline so the ads dont bother us.
This game is fun, not overwhelmed with ads, and is a beauty to look at. Finally! The app store is filled w so much garbage lately, but no this. This is epic!! Thank you.
We dont know if Im finished with the game almost, but Im on the ice level, real fun game, thank you guys for makeing it.
We love this game and how its played and everything but we have a few suggestions: first you should add a button in the wave mode that allows you to hold your troops so you can build them up, second you should add clans and you can donate troops and stuff you should also add a thing like the farm but it would be a fishing area.
A little simplistic but a fun little idle game if you need to just chill.
The games great, we would just love to see more customization for your own characters, be able to select different colors for your own armor or even different creatures like the hoards coming from the other castles. More islands, different castle fighting styles. The key idea just being more of an immersive world. Great job on the app! Hope to see you guys continue to work on this.
The graphics dont matter when your having this much fun.
Its pretty laidback and enjoyable.
Yes there are some ads but honestly with the quality of the game we dont mind.
This game is great, has a rewarding progression loop, and most importantly, it doesnt punish you wish ads. We wish more mobile games were like this – and all by one developer. Bravo.
Sure, it doesnt have the best graphics available; but if you truly give it a chance, you will be satisfied by this game as well. A+ production.
This is amazing! Good work, Dev.
A lot of ads but still a good game.
So we think you chould add a mage with the upgrades being different types of magic like lev1 fire mage lev2light mage lev3 dark mage and level four can be choose either healing mage or damage mage leading to different play styles you might not see this or might not like it but we think we whould like the game better Syncerly player.
Great game fast paced but a great build up.
Not bad, easy to grind and just chill game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.0.88
- Size: 60.37 MB
- iOS: 10 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Vojtech Jesatko
Last updated: 22nd March 2023 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Vojtech Jesatko