Castle Woodwarf 2

I see what they were trying to do but it just fails so hard to be anything resembling the game we all know and love. I finished in just 3 hours and it felt nothing like the original. If this game is free, cool... but do yourself a favor and don't spend any money on it.

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/][b]Like this Review? Follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more![/b][/url][/quote] The Dwarfen City of Woodwarf and its dragon egg are under attack from The Black Knight and his evil minions. Selecting to Play on the main menu screen will be taken to the World Map. Here you will find Upgrade, Shop, Settings and Help, A Big Red X and your starting point, Durn Uluhm. Selecting Durn Uluhm will then give you the choice of the game's difficulty (Easy, Normal and Hard) along with choice to play the Campaign and Challenge modes. Challenge mode is only available once you have completed the campaign on that level. You can change the games difficulty at any time should you be struggling to get past a level. Selecting the Campaign will display some information on the current level. Durn Uluhm have Green Slimes which have flooded the caverns below your village. There is also some information on the enemy which is revealed when you hoover your cursor over the enemies which are indicated in the centre of the screen. This information about the oncoming enemy consists of Health Points, Strength and Speed. Paying attention to which enemy are incoming can help you decide on the types of dwarves you use to protect Woodward and its dragon egg. When you are ready to proceed clicking on Campaign will then take you to the game screen. On the game screen you will have some help so that you get the gist of how the game plays out. The screen is divided into two sections, you have the Underground Caverns and the Surface. On the top of the screen is a bearded dwarfs face, at the side of this is a row of carrots and fish. Just below the rows of carrots and fish it details how many dwarves you currently have on screen and how much gold you currently have. On the surface there’s a small home base on the left, a body of water is on the right side where you’ll do some fishing and in between is where you’ll grow your resources like carrots, various trees and other foods. You will be required to farm for resources so that you can sustain the dwarves which will battle underground protecting Woodwarf and the dragon egg which is in front of the entrance to Woodwarf. The entrance and dragon egg are located on the left hand-side of the screen. The health of Woodwarf is also on the left side and are indicated by hearts. The dragon egg also has a health bar above it, should either of these two reaches zero then the game is lost. You will also lose the game if you run out of resources and are unable to feed your dwarves, so keep an eye on the resources at the side of the bearded dwarf face. On the right hand-side is where the enemy will appear in the underground cavern. Near where the enemy appear are details on how many waves the currently level has and how many enemies are left in the current wave. To collect resources, you will need to assign a dwarf to collect and farm for them. There are three types of dwarves which you can choose from to do these tasks. These are Gathers, Lumberjacks and Fisher dwarves, each of these dwarves cost five, six and seven gold. Gathers will run back n forth collecting resources and delivering them to the home base. Once they have been delivered to the tent/hut you’ll gain some gold which can then be used to add more dwarves, upgrade the growth rate of the resources. Gold can also be used to upgrade your dragon egg into a fully-fledged dragon which you can move left and right across the screen breathing fire, helping to protect Woodwarf. Now you’ve got some resources coming in you will need to add some dwarves to protect the underground cavern. There are three types of dwarves which you can use to fight against the onslaught of the Black Knight’s minions. The dwarves tasked with defending Woodwarf are Tank, Archer and Mage which cost eight, twelve and fifteen gold each. To begin with you only have a total of ten dwarves which you can call upon. This is a total amount for both those collecting resources and those in combat so you must strike a balance between both. It’s no good collecting loads of resources if you’re failing to protect the caverns and vice versus, if you don’t have enough resources to feed your dwarves then you’re only going to fail in the caverns. After successfully completing a level you’ll be rewarded with one to three Stars depending on how well you’ve done. You can use these Stars to upgrade your home base, field maintenance, dragon, dwarves and resources. Each of these categories consists of six levels which you can use to help you as you progress through the levels. You will also earn some Gems upon completing a level. These can be used in the Shop where you can use them to buy various special abilities such as, Bomb, Freeze Potions, Gold and Hearts which may just help you in while in combat. You can also buy various new resources like Strawberries, Eggplant, Pine and Maple trees, Trout, Redfish and Tuna. Unlocking new resources will help maintain your growing dwarfen army. There are fifteen levels to complete in campaign mode, completing campaign in normal mode on each level will then unlock Challenge. Completing all fifteen levels will also unlock the Endless Mode where you will need to combat waves of enemies until you fail. After which you will unlock the last level which is where all the dwarves take a break from fighting now that you’ve delivered peace and go for some peaceful fishing. In the settings there’s options for Music and Sounds with volume sliders, Windowed, Start Over (you can reset the game wiping any previous game played) and Quit. The game looks good and it plays well, it’s not very hard to learn but it can become a little frustrating later in the game, but who don’t like a little bit of a challenge. There are only fifteen levels in the campaign so it’s quite short, I would have like some more levels. However, I have enjoyed playing Castle Woodward 2. Positives + Simple and fun game + Campaign, Endless and Challenge modes + Has achievements Negatives - Not very big - No cards currently Collect resources and defend Woodwarf and the Dragon’s Egg from the onslaught of the Black Knight and his minions. 7/10 [quote]Key provided by developer/publisher for review purposes via THE CPT FROGGY CLUB! Any opinions expressed are entirely my own! [/quote] [quote]For more reviews, great game giveaways and much more. 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Castle Woodwarf 2 is simplified tower defense game with little addon of time management. You have two tasks: first you need to place your workers to cut trees, gather wood (which gives coins) and catch fishes. Second and little more interesting is to summon your warriors (there are few types of them but I still don't understand the difference between crossbowman and archers - in my opinion there is none) to protect you from waves of enemies. Except that you also may use your dragon which is some kind of super unit. Generally game is very simplified, it looks like mobile game rather than PC and probably it has mobile roots. But the most important question is: is this a good game? To be honest no, it's not very bad, but it's not good enough to waste your time on it. I played it only because it has dwarves in the title, but to be honest it doesn't feel like a game about dwarves. You don't feel this dwarven vibe at all. VERDICT: If you're tower defense fan, this is just too simplified to give you good fun. If you're dwarves fan as I'am, you will be dissapointed - you won't feel that you command clan of dwarves. But if you like casual games with some lite strategy element - you may try it, maybe you will like it. but probably the best experience would be on mobile. If you’re dwarves fan and want to check other games about/with dwarves, consider to follow our [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42612053-Dwarven-Kingdom/#browse]Dwarven Kingdom[/url] curator.

Very short but nice game. Lacks of variety but good for a coffee break. Really needs WASD instead of arrow keys. For right handed people it's difficult to handle the dragon and the mouse at the same time. Some more differend dwarfs would be nice and please give the option back, to upgrade the dwarfs hall ingame, like at the first game. Got the game on sale. Sadly I don't think it's worth 6€. If you liked the first game, this may be worth a look.

Simple and boring

Castle Woodwarf 2 is a Kongregate refugee soldier defense game (soldier defense being a dumbing down of tower defense games where you just build soldiers to combat the waves of enemy soldiers). There's some lightweight resource management as you have a cap on units and you also need to allocate some of your units to gathering supplies and gold, but this is a very shallow addon to the core gameplay. Unlike traditional TD's, this is shallow and linear, there's no strategising about where to put towers or worrying about enemy pathing because enemies attack on only one line. Yawn. This wouldn't fare well even as a mobile app (I checked, it doesn't look like it's on app stores). One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards. So, should you buy this game? Castle Woodwarf 2 has the gamer gouging price of around $7 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

What I like the most about this game is that it is slowpaced and you can skip the waiting if you need more of a rush. I really like the experience of seeing my small dwarves and whatnot milling around and collecting ressources for the warmachine.

It is what its is. That does not make this a bad game. Simple strategic game while you are waiting for results like brewing beer. So the game is broken down into the top land where you gather resources and the dungeon and fight hordes of monsters. You on control the dragon as the other NPCs do their own thing. You only have control of buying units. You can make it as hard as you want and still progress in the game. There are also levels of unlimited hordes for you to challenge. For the price, it's worth the buy Good for a quick game to kill time.

i really paid for that!!??!!?!?

Quite fun, got it's own character!