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Lost Castle

Lost Castle is a super cute, super hard action RPG with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons. Brimming with a host of hand drawn, humorous characters and environments that embrace retro action with…

70 31 August 2016 ESRB T

Lost Castle is an adventure developed by Hunter Studio, released 31 August 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Lost Castle is

Lost Castle is an adventure game developed by Hunter Studio and released in 2016. It was published by Another Indie. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Lost Castle is a super cute, super hard action RPG with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons. Brimming with a host of hand drawn, humorous characters and environments that embrace retro action with modern twists. Prologue In its glory days, Castle Harwood was the heart of a happy land governed by wise and virtuous nobles. But those days are long gone now. Calamity has befallen these lands, and wicked magics corrupt the castle and all that surrounds it. Demons have claimed this rotten place for their domain and even the might of the empire is thwarted by their dark army... and slowly, the corruption is spreading. Castle Harwood is lost. Yet at the heart of this nightmare, something…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 98 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Lost Castle holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.6 Ghz, 2 GB RAM and GeForce 8800 or Radeon® HD4800 series, 512 MB of memory. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.

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What it launched against

Lost Castle launched on 31 August 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

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Lost Castle — frequently asked questions

When did Lost Castle come out?
Lost Castle was released on 31 August 2016 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Lost Castle?
At minimum, Lost Castle needs 1.6 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, GeForce 8800 or Radeon® HD4800 series, 512 MB of memory graphics, 2 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Lost Castle?
The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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