PlayFortress PC

Build castles and settlements in PlayFortress by directing characters like the Lord, Master Mason, and Engineer. Construct fortifications with keeps, towers, gatehouses, and walls that connect seamlessly, bend into curves, and adapt to uneven terrain like slopes and mounds. Customize pieces through floor additions, size changes, rotations, crenellation styles, roof types, stone paints, and attachments such as windows, doors, arrow loops, shields, and banners. Place buildings like the Master Mason Lodge, carpenter hut, blacksmith, and market stalls to manage the economy. This Early Access strategy simulation offers Castle Editing in Master Mason Mode for precise control. Players shape medieval-era structures with authentic construction details. Indie creators target fans of detailed castle building and economy management on PC.

PlayFortress is a castle building game where the player controls characters such as the Lord, Master Mason and Engineer using them to construct elaborate castle fortifications and settlements whilst managing their economy.

The inspiration for the game was to attempt something new with the castle building genre, to create a game focuses upon how castles were constructed during the medieval era.

Early Access

The following features are currently implemented in the Early Access version:

Castle Editing (Master Mason Mode)

• Place down castle pieces such as keeps, free-standing towers, drum towers and gatehouses
  
  • Connect towers to castle pieces
    
  • Connect forebuildings to castle pieces
    
  • Add/remove floors
    
  • Manipulate castle pieces (change size, rotate, scale edges).
• Walls
  
  • Connect walls to castle pieces
    
  • Connect ends of walls together
    
  • Bend walls to create curved sections
• Customise castle pieces
  
  • Change crenelllation styles
    
  • Change roof types
    
  • Change gatehouse entrance types
• Paint mode for changing castle styles (type of stone)
  
• Attachments for adding windows, doors, arrow loops, shields and banners
  
• Buildings
  
  • Various buildings are available such as the Master Mason Lodge, carpenter hut, blacksmith, market houses and scenery objects such as statues and market stalls.

All castle geometry pieces, walls and buildings can be placed on uneven ground ensuring castles can be built upon slopes and mounds (castle mottes).

Work In Progress

More features will be added later, some of these features are currently work in progress and can be seen at the end of the PlayFortress trailer video including:

• Building Systems mode for customising (town/settlement) buildings
  
• Engineer mode for terraforming landscape
  
• Lord mode where the castle can be viewed as it is constructed.

More information will be posted on our Steam store page forums and website.