The Castle Doctrine

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The Castle Doctrine

Short description

The Castle Doctrine is a massively-multiplayer game of burglary and home defense. It's 1991, and things are bad. You're a guy with a house and family. Other players are coming to take what's yours. Build security to stop them. Study their houses, buy tools, and break in to take what's theirs.

Developer
Jason Rohrer
Publisher
Jason Rohrer
Release
Wed, Jan 29, 2014
Price
$3.99
Reviews
264
Positive
45%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
50K – 100K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Strategy
Features
Multi-player, MMO, Cross-Platform Multiplayer
Tags
Indie Massively Multiplayer Strategy Perma Death Difficult Puzzle 2D Pixel Graphics Simulation Rogue-like Dark
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$47ksomewhere between $21k and $398k · roughly 5K–100K copies

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