PlayFortress

PlayFortress is a castle-building game about constructing medieval fortifications and settlements. You control characters including the Lord, Master Mason and Engineer while building and managing the settlement’s economy. The game focuses on how castles were constructed during the medieval era.

Shape the castle

In Master Mason Mode, you place and adjust castle pieces, walls and buildings. Castle pieces include keeps, free-standing towers, drum towers and gatehouses. You can connect towers and forebuildings to castle pieces, add or remove floors, and change pieces’ size, rotation and edge scale. Walls can connect to castle pieces or to each other, and can be bent into curved sections.

You can customise castle pieces by changing crenellation styles, roof types and gatehouse entrance types, and use the paint mode to change the stone style. Attachments include windows, doors, arrow loops, shields and banners. Castle pieces, walls and buildings can be placed on uneven ground, allowing construction on slopes and mounds, including castle mottes.

Buildings and settlement

Available buildings include the Master Mason Lodge, carpenter hut, blacksmith and market houses. Scenery objects include statues and market stalls.

Other modes

Building Systems mode for customising town and settlement buildings, Engineer mode for terraforming the landscape, and Lord mode for viewing the castle as it is constructed are works in progress.