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Citadels (2013)
Released On: Jul 25, 2013
20
1.2
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
20
0% Positive
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0% Mixed
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0 Reviews
100% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
It is clear that a lot of hard labor went into Citadels, but it is difficult to ascertain whether it was a labor of love. If it was, it never shines through. Citadels feels empty of spirit, empty of passion and the crashes destroy what little fun there is to be had playing it.
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 94 User Ratings
1.2
4% Positive
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4% Mixed
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91% Negative
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 94 User Ratings
1.2
4% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
4% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
91% Negative
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
Citadels seems to be inspired by the Settlers and Stronghold series mostly. You can build up your economy, refine materials, build defensive towers and walls, train troops and attack your opponent. Each element of the gameplay is unfortunately pretty basic and unfinished, though. The base for a promising game may be in place but it's like the developer didn't have the resources to finish it. It also contains some glaring bugs and glitches (i.e. peasants getting stuck idle while constructing because of poor pathfinding, glitchy selection boxes making unit selection difficult...) that suggest that this game should have remained in development much longer. It should definitely not have been released as a full-priced game.
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Put it back in the oven; this game is not ready. Citadels is simply tedious to play. I never once found myself having any semblance of fun. Not only is Citadels not worth the $40 price tag it is somehow selling for, I couldn’t recommend this game even if it were free-to-play.
There might be an honest-to-goodness game somewhere in here, lurking underneath the slew of technical issues, uninspired gameplay, game-breaking mechanics and cryptic explanations for how everything fits together. Not that the game would have fit together in the first place, anyway. Whatever may be underneath the game, it’s really not worth the trouble of finding out.
Citadels is a sorry mess that should be avoided. Perhaps the
developers will fix at least the basic functions in a few months but
there is nothing here that raises any hope that it will even match its
competitors then.
Not only is Citadels an incredibly awful mixture of Stronghold and Age of Empires with outdated graphics, it also features an abundance of bugs: Persistent crashes, physics errors, AI mishaps and non-existent path-finding are but the tip of the iceberg.
Meh, half-finished game that needs alot of polishing. It looks more like an early acces project. Its simply not done and should not be sold as a full game.
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I thought this game would be everything the pc game stronghold wasn't. I couldn't be more disappointed. Poor AI, peasants can't gather ore without getting stuck at something and immobilizing'em. Poor graphics, everything is bad. Campaign is also awful. Sorry guys who made this game but you guys failed.
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Seriously, I want to give this game 0, but I decided to give it one, because of the developers' skill of making quick money and then hiding in the shadow. I bought this game because I was so stupid, and because I am a big fan of stronghold games, and was hoping for any castle building RTS to replace Stronghold since the big disappointment of SH 3, but again SH 3 looks so perfect comparing to this garbage that they call it Citadels, its buggy, ugly, doesn't work, unoriginal, even things they copied it from other game they made it worse. Bunch of **** can make a better game than this, please avoid it at all cost, and if you already have it, please uninstall it and don't play cause it may gives you AIDS.
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THE WORST game in last 5 years
from the first moment i got a control of units , i felt i wasted $39.99 on this crap
dev has gut to charge people on this abysmal failure.
i expected to revive good moments when i played stronghold 1 and crusader (not second one. that one is piece of junk like this but in lesser degrees)
boy did i get robbed by blindfolded
not a redeeming quality in this game
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Should have read metacritic reviews before getting this game. At least if your reading this and haven't bought the game consider yourselves lucky. Any review higher than a 0 is too generous for this horrendous game. In another 1000 years the future people will find this game and think of us as sad and lonely people for having such dismal and lackluster games. I certainly would agree to eat a large bucket of plain freshly picked cotton then take another shot at playing this horrid game. I also want to start a new movement to completely eradicate this game from existence, hopefully we can lift this large and unmooving stain on humanity.
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Summary In Citadels, the player experiences the Arthurian legend in two campaigns; one fighting on the side of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and the other on the side of Morgana and Mordred. Citadels tells a spellbinding story in a time of kings, noble knights, and mighty castles. It offers epic battles with extraordinary characte...
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Jul 25, 2013
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