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Castle Arena
Build your base. Shape your army. Bring down the enemy castle. Choose your faction and outthink your rivals in online duels and team battles.
Castle Arena
Not available to buy yet. Follow development to hear first when you can play.
About this game
A strategy game about building, not micromanaging. You never give orders to a soldier: you raise buildings in your territory, each one trains troops on its own rhythm, and they march down the lanes and attack whatever they meet. Your part is deciding what to build, when to build it and where to spend your gold, until the enemy castle falls.
Fourteen factions
Each with its own buildings, troops, upgrade paths and abilities, and every attack type strong against some armors and weak against others.
Gold that works
Income comes in every few seconds, and the more you invest in troop buildings, the more you earn. Idle gold earns nothing.
One Rescue per match
Once per match you can wipe out every enemy troop in a large area. Use it to turn a fight, or save it: at the time limit, saved Rescues decide the winner.
From duels to 4v4
Online through Steam, from 1v1 to team battles with eight players, with rematch, reconnection and spectators. Or against the AI, with a training that teaches by playing.
From the devlog
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A Rule That Fits in One SentenceThe first Midnight Pancakes game has one rule that changes everything: you never command a soldier. If the player controls no one, what is left for them to do? The answer is in the gold.
When the Leaves Began to FallFrom a mute field and five-pixel troops to a world with sky, weather, leaves in the wind and wildlife that flees explosions. The honest list from day one, what answered each item, and what's still missing.
When the Numbers LiedA test match stuck for 114 minutes, soldiers marching in place, flyers that scrambled everything and an economy three times richer than it should be. How thousands of matches without graphics taught us to distrust our own feel.
The Hydra That Wouldn't SplitFourteen factions is a lot for a two-person team, and for a while some of them were just sketches. How abilities became data, why the first round of tests was a reality check, and what the balance of the factions still doesn't prove.