The Elder Scrolls: Castles
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10 one-time purchases from $1.99
In the United States, The Elder Scrolls: Castles has 10 one-time purchases priced $1.99 – 19.99.
| Product | Price |
|---|---|
| Pouch of Gems | $1.99 |
| Emperor's Pass (7 days) | $4.99 |
| Sack of Gems | $4.99 |
| Small Starter Bundle | $4.99 |
| Legendary Event Subject Bundle | $6.99 |
| Satchel of Gems | $9.99 |
| Emperor's Pass (30 days) | $13.99 |
| Large Starter Bundle | $14.99 |
| Emperor's Pass (1 year) | $19.99 |
| Strongbox of Gems | $19.99 |
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The Elder Scrolls: Castles reviews
4.5 out of 5, based on 21,498 reviews.
What people like
- Watching people interact is really fun
- Generational story feels unique and deep
- Art style looks polished and nice
What they complain about
- Characters die if you stop playing
- You must pay to progress fast
- Gameplay gets boring and repetitive quickly
Please make more cards
It’s a great game but now it’s so repetitive
Gay
I played for 5 minutes and saw a khajit sexually assault my elder, deleted the game immediately
Please Add Chinese Localization to The Elder Scrolls: Castles
I really enjoy this game and would love to keep playing, but the lack of Chinese localization makes the ruling system very difficult to enjoy. Since rulings require understanding detailed dialogue and consequences, language support is especially important in this game. Please consider adding Simplified and Traditional Chinese. I would gladly continue playing if Chinese localization were added.
This game is pretty boring
Someone probably enjoys tapping things in order, and waiting for things so they can build and upgrade stuff. It's boring and slow. Not for me. I'm sure fans of this sort of game will love, I only gave it a try because there hasn't been an Elder Scrolls game in a long time. Within 20 minutes I was over it.
Cool concept, needs rebalancing
First off this is not a reskin of Fallout Shelters, which I think deserves tons of credit and props. That said, they should’ve copied Fallout Shelters a little bit more than they did. Income desperately needs to be rebalanced. Most rulings either cause problems (upset a subject or start a longer bad arc) or they cost gold. Upgrading tools costs more copies of that tool plus gold. Upgrading rooms costs a mill resource plus gold. That all might be okay, but you only earn a significant amount of gold from orders, which still isn’t enough to keep up (not to mention that orders are often for resources you need for other things) The personality trait feature is unique, but it makes things way more complicated to optimize. Leveled skills would be a much more straightforward mechanic. I get the impression that this game was trying to be more story driven which I think is great, but the resource demands are so high that it pushes the player to treat the game like an optimization problem, which often feels like fighting against the game. Subjects unpredictably start interpersonal conflict or friendship, which would be fun if either (1) it didn’t have such a massive impact on resource production or (2) if resource production weren’t such an integral part of the game. I do like the game and I think it has potential to be super fun, but I think it needs to be rebalanced to get there
Enjoying
Thank you! I’m enjoying this game please keep updating it and making it unique
Biggest waste of time ever!
Find something worth playing!
More LOOKS!!!!
I love the game and it’s very good, but I strongly believe that people in the game need different looks, I am bored of seeing the same exact people 100s of times. Different face types, different hairstyles, just different types of looks for characters would make the game very amazing.
Deleting
After playing this game since it came out, today, it was telling me to continue with game Center even though I had already clicked it three times and it wouldn’t let me load in so it closed itself. When I tried to open it back up it just said game center failed to connect. Please try again later. I was already thinking about deleting it because it’s repetitive and there’s not enough events and I have all this gold and items. And it got stagnant.
Like the game but it has issues
only having second workstations be attainable through getting quartz is really frustrating when balancing between the slow aging process + making babies. I understand that they are trying to make this separate game from fallout but having the aspect of buying new machines at an increased price w new villagers stopping buy could easily fix the of accidentally making way to many kids. That or kids should age into adults faster. The aging for children is way to slow and it’s super easy to over compensate for forgetting to make them. I also wish I got more people fleeing from other villages into mine, it would make the world outside of my castle feel more alive and less staged. (Maybe give options &repercussions to reject curtain people?) and we absolutely need more then 1 file. anyway, I like the game, hope it gets some updates that fixes these issues.
Put this on pc
I love this so much I just wish it was on steam. I would play it constantly on there, I already play fallout shelter on there almost everyday for a few hours I would do the same thing if this was on there. Please put this on pc and my life is yours!❤️❤️
DEI slop and racist game
Right off the get go, we’re crammed down our throats with DEI gaming decisions for picking our castle ruler. You get 4 options, from best to worst. A redguard (black male) that’s highly spoken of, a strong willed female with head garb, an emotional female kajiit, and a “volatile” white ruthless nord. The subliminal messaging of these developers is disgusting to include this into the game so strongly, especially right out of the gate. Take this garbage out already.
Great game! No Pause. :(
This game is VERY fun! Very immersive and interactive, thoroughly enjoyable. Your lil guys can have dynamics with each other and they can either be enemies or best friends, and keeping your subjects happy and content isn’t a chore. The missions are manageable, not too hard where you get frustrated but not too easy - so you do have to pay attention. I love the concept of this game so very much, and my ONLY two gripes are that: 1.) You have to pay for a subscription essentially to get some of your rewards, which is neither here nor there and seems to be the status quo for these apps nowadays. And 2.) There is unfortunately no option to pause the years from passing when you want to take a break from checking in everyday. This is unfortunately what I’m facing right now; I really like the subjects and their families that I have currently, and while I understand the main feature of the game is being a real time kingdom - I do wish that we could halt the time so that when we want to get back into the game, we can restart it and no one will have died from old age. Overall, super awesome game with such unique features! Totally start playing if you don’t get easily attached to fake beings, or you LIKE being reminded that time is an ever present, nonstopable horror !!!
Returned to Chaos
I stopped playing for a little while and when I redownloaded the game my favorite gold characters were missing. And i can no longer tell who was married to who, or who each persons family is/was… i was running a like RPG in my castle and people are just gone and i had to choose a new king…
Nothing to do
Can’t think of a good reason to continue to log in. Collect resources to make items to make money to do… what? Buy more resources to increase item levels for… what? There’s a very basic linear combat quest that just seems like it’s just there to give you a few items to make and level.
Crashes often, but has plenty of potential.
Game crashes a lot. Playing it is spotty but still works so long as I keep the villager count low and castle small. I hope to see this game on PC soon, please bring this game to steam…
abomination
this not only makes a mockery of fans, your FIRST INTERACTION.... THE VERY FIRST THING YOU DO... is deal with game gems its a hot garbage fire shame on the devs that destroyed this IP
Good but needs more!
This game could be so much more, please add more content! Even paid dlc would be good, id love a trial system. More production roles, multiplayer, being able to go to war with other kingdoms. It is a great base game but needs more please!!
Cute but the bg sound issue is a deal breaker
I want to listen to my podcasts/music while playing this, which you can do in shelter but this one just overrides the audio of anything else playing.
It’s fun but then it gets repetitive
After like a week it’s like okay is this it
PLEASE UPDATE THE GAME
I would love if the game saw some real love from the developers and added in features from the fallout version of the game. Wars, exploration, raids, arena, and other cool features. Thank you and much love.
Broken Game
Loved this game for the month I had it. For some reason it stopped working and I can no longer get it (Game get’s stuck on the loading screen). Please fix this issue.
Fun but a Couple Problems
I think it would be great if it was more feasible to build more kitchens. The easy of expansion doesn’t add up to the capacity for food production. It’s awesome to get so many people but to not be able to build more kitchens or even more work stations feasibly dampens the game play.
Not much content
Limited rooms, growth is capped, quest are tedious
Amazing but some suggestions
Make it possible to sort the population by their traits. Also include the ability to spend gems to get certain weapons only if you can’t make them yet, but still need them for optional objectives on the war table also let me run Spotify in the background while I play, for the love of all that is holy
Very Imaginative
Loving this little medieval world. I have renamed all the characters (mostly because I have had a few mistakes putting the wrong two people together and ended up with a few affairs ending in murder!). I lost my queen to jealousy too! But very fun and interesting. I enjoy watching the people walk around and interact. I haven’t quite figured out the fighting and rarely manage 3 stars even when I think I have met the requirements so some kind of hints would be nice. Love the decor.
Meh
Not interesting and too cartoonish
It’s fun but gets boring
It’s a fun game truly it is but after a while it gets really boring! I mean really boring give us more to do more to see! Let us have knights that we send out to explore other kingdoms and maybe even show those other kingdoms!
Sunflower
This game is okay but complicated and a bit boring because have to wait to get more supplies before upgrading. There are no additional instructions in settings. To add friends is by text only and that's not the best way to find friends. This game would be far better with some upgrades.
Tired of mobile games needing wifi
Castles has incredible potential as a mobile games, especially when put up against the mobile game industry’s general lack-luster effort. The game has flaws, sure, but it feels like an effort was made to make an enjoyable time waster. My biggest problem however is that you need wifi to play. I’d be completely okay with this if they at least allowed you to play through a cellular connection, but that doesn’t work. The fact I can’t play this game while on the move or waiting around in public is a real shame since while it’s a good competitor against most other mobile games, it doesn’t hold a flame to anything I could do in the comfort of my own home.
king and queen
Love this game I hope the developers see this. Please let there be two monarchs like king queen
Waste of time and money
Waste of time and money
能不能出个中文
一直看不懂
“Madam or food is running low
“Madam or for run low “ Baseda “ please send more money so food doesn't run low YOU HAVE NO CHOICE
Options
At the very beginning all I wanted was a Dunmer kingdom. I refused to allow entry of any non-Dunmers, only allowed Dunmers to have kids, etc. It just became impossible and eventually realized the only way to play this game was how the developers want you to play, you can’t really do what you want. But other than that failure the game was lacking things to do. As others have said it has potential, but feels like it was released in Early Access mode.
Great game
Please add simplified Chinese language option
Love it but overheating
There is no reason this should be overheating a iPhone 17 pro max that’s not even 8months old. Sad because I spent money in the store before realizing.
Why is there a max on decorations?
I really like this game but I lost interest when I reached the max amount of furniture a castle can have, despite having more than enough room to put more furniture in. I really like this game but if that one aspect is changed, I will definitely play it again.
Fun But Horrible
The game is just barely fun enough to keep fish like me on the line. Not a good thing. Pretty repetitive gameplay and WAY TOO MANY micro-transactions. There are cool and fun elements to the game that I enjoy, but the progression is just barely slow enough to keep me playing, and I KNOW it’s because they want me to spend money to speed things up. There’s a lot of potential in this game, a lot more that Fallout Shelter IMO, but it just isn’t a good experience when every other level requires the battle pass or whatever they decided to call it here to unlock stuff. I hate games like this, and yet I play them all the time. I hope things change for this game (for the better,) but hope doesn’t change the fact that I know it won’t.
Needs some work on long-term play
Overall, love the game and everything about the style. It really feels like medieval fallout and that’s my fav part about it. It’s overall really fun at first and I love having generations with the characters. I have stopped playing the game after maybe a week or two though purely because I can’t advance unless I buy the in game currency. At a certain point it’ll take forever to farm the materials to expand the kingdom. I wish it was like fallout where you can basically go on forever without this restriction. Great concept, just need work on the actual core gameplay loop to keep me interested.
Cute castle simulator.
Love the game, it’s funny ow watch all the babies roam the castle and do missions. I really wish there was an alchemy lab feature to make healing potions, that would make exploring to higher levels easier for low lvl players as well as add another craft. The limitations to castle size is a little disappointing too. Can’t place everything you collect eventually.
Garbage
Love when you leave a game for a few months and all the characters you had are dead. Garbage, this and fallout shelter are scams that steal your money and delete your progress when you’re gone too long
russian language add
please, add russian language
Fun but typical Bethesda pay to play
You get to a point where you just have to pay to continue playing
Dealbreaker
I absolutely love this game but when it comes to an rpg experience, I believe it breaks when time keeps going when you don’t play. To me, not being able to continue where I left off when I want to play and on my time is a dealbreaker.
BEST GAME I HAVE PLAYED IN A WHILE
THIS GAME DESERVES 6 STARS but I do have a idea for a new feature basically a break room that takes a 3x3 space filled with beds and chairs I think this would be a GREAT feature 😅
Inaccessible
Sadly this game isn't accessible with voiceover, and I was looking forward to playing it and see how well I build my castle. Is there a possibility of implementing voiceover accessibility in future updates?
A Brilliant RPG With Untapped Potential
This is one of the most promising mobile RPGs I’ve played in years. The core gameplay loop is engaging, the art and interface are polished, and the generational mechanics offer real storytelling potential. However, there are some frustrating design choices that prevent it from reaching greatness—especially for players who don’t purchase the pass. A few key suggestions that could significantly elevate the experience: • Lineage & Lore Depth: Allow players to view the ancestry and legacy of past characters. It would add a sense of continuity and help us appreciate long-term dynasties. • Custom Titles & Names: Please expand name length limits and allow commas and special characters. Naming heirs “[Name], Crown Princess” or “[Name], The Brave” adds so much immersion. • Council Role Logic: It’s jarring when a chef delivers diplomatic letters or a blacksmith negotiates alliances. Role-specific interactions would enrich the narrative. • Balanced Trait System: High-rarity characters often come with conflicting traits—like being skilled in daggers, melee, and summoning, but lacking synergy across their stats. There should be an increased chance that rare traits actually cohere and support each other. • Trait Inheritance & Education: Children should have the chance to earn their rarity through schooling or training, rather than relying entirely on randomness. Introducing an education system would give purpose to childhood stages and allow strategic grooming of heirs. • Trait Limitations: Right now, characters can stack far too many negative traits. A limit on debuffs and a rebalancing of how they affect performance would make rare characters more meaningful. • Soft Caps on Rarity?: It sometimes feels like there’s an invisible limit on how many blue, purple, or gold characters you can have at once. If true, this needs transparency—or better yet, removal. Despite these frustrations, I really enjoy this game and see immense potential in it. If even a few of these changes are implemented, I’ll gladly revise this to a five-star review. Thanks to the devs for their hard work so far!
Has potential
There is definitely potential here. Having multiple save files would be handy, Specially if I wanna start over or lose track of what’s going on. I wanna restart my castle but there is NO way to do so.
Cute game but over quickly
I’ve really enjoyed the app and it’s quite addictive, but once you finish the quests at level 175, the game is basically over. You can of course repeat quests to get supplies to increase levels and do special events, but it’s really finished except to poke around every few days. Breeding system is totally random, bad traits remain no matter what system you use. A few hours a day for a month and it’s complete.
The Elder Scrolls: Castles price by country
A one-time purchase costs $3.99 in Jamaica and $14.99 in Cote Divoire — 4× more for the same thing. Below is the going rate for each plan in every country that sells it — the middle price of what the app charges there, in the country's own currency with the dollar equivalent beneath it.
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| Afghanistan | $11.99 |
| Albania | $5.99 |
| Algeria | $11.99 |
| Angola | $11.99 |
| Anguilla | $11.99 |
| Antigua And Barbuda | $11.99 |
| Argentina | $3.99 |
| Armenia | $5.99 |
| Australia | A$14.99$10.71 |
| Austria | €7.99$9.09 |
| Azerbaijan | $4.99 |
| Bahamas | $4.99 |
| Bahrain | $12.99 |
| Barbados | $14.99 |
| Belize | $11.99 |
| Benin | $14.99 |
| Bermuda | $11.99 |
| Bhutan | $11.99 |
| Bolivia | $3.99 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | €12.99$14.78 |
| Botswana | $11.99 |
| Brazil | R$59.90$11.50 |
| British Virgin Islands | $11.99 |
| Brunei Darussalam | $3.99 |
| Bulgaria | €5.99$6.81 |
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| Canada | CA$12.99$9.15 |
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| Chad | $11.99 |
| Chile | CLP 5,990$6.23 |
| Colombia | COP 24,900$7.54 |
| Congo | $14.99 |
| Congo, Democratic Republic | $11.99 |
| Costa Rica | $3.99 |
| Cote Divoire | $14.99 |
| Croatia | €5.99$6.81 |
| Cyprus | €7.99$9.09 |
| Czech Republic | CZK 249.00$11.61 |
| Denmark | DKK 89.00$13.55 |
| Dominica | $11.99 |
| Dominican Republic | $3.99 |
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| Egypt | EGP 499.99$9.82 |
| El Salvador | $11.99 |
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| Finland | €5.99$6.81 |
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| Ghana | $14.99 |
| Greece | €5.99$6.81 |
| Grenada | $11.99 |
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| Hong Kong | HK$58.00$7.40 |
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| Maldives | $11.99 |
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| Mauritania | $11.99 |
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| Philippines | ₱299.00$4.78 |
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| Spain | €5.99$6.81 |
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| Sweden | SEK 129.00$12.95 |
| Switzerland | CHF 9.00$10.82 |
| Taiwan | NT$320.00$10.06 |
| Tajikistan | $12.99 |
| Tanzania | TZS 34,900.00$13.19 |
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| United States | $6.99 |
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| Vietnam | ₫149,000$5.75 |
| Yemen | $11.99 |
| Zambia | $14.99 |
| Zimbabwe | $14.99 |
The Elder Scrolls: Castles FAQ
- Is The Elder Scrolls: Castles free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 169 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $1.99 (US), across 10 one-time purchases.
- Does The Elder Scrolls: Castles have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- Where is The Elder Scrolls: Castles cheapest?
- A one-time purchase costs $3.99 in Jamaica and $14.99 in Cote Divoire, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to The Elder Scrolls: Castles?
- Shop Titans: Fantasy Crafting (4.7 from 117,770 reviews, premium from $1.99), Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus ™ (4.8 from 98,800 reviews, premium from $4.99) and Knighthood (4.7 from 93,037 reviews, premium from $1.99).
The Elder Scrolls: Castles download
Last updated 8 months ago.
The Elder Scrolls: Castles sells in 169 countries. It was released 2 years and 8 months ago, on 17 Jan 2024. It holds a 4.5 rating from 21,498 reviews.
Supports 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.
How much does The Elder Scrolls: Castles make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- One-time 100%
Revenue by country
- United States 73%
- Canada 5%
- United Kingdom 4%
- Germany 2%