Action game

Castle Lane

Raiders are walking the lane. Build towers and hold the castle gate.

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Castle Lane

Castle Lane

Raiders are walking the lane. Build towers and hold the castle gate.

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How to play

  1. Tap a plot beside the lane and pick a tower from the ring. Grey towers with a lock cost more than you have.
  2. Tap a tower to upgrade it (twice) or sell it.
  3. Press SEND WAVE when you are ready. After each wave a countdown sends the next; call it early for bonus coins.
  4. Every raider that reaches the castle costs lives. Survive every wave to hold the map.
  5. Keep more lives for more stars. Each map you hold unlocks the next; MAPS lets you choose.

Controls

Keyboard

  • ← → ↑ ↓ move between plots and buttons
  • 1–4 build Arrow, Cannon, Frost, Gold Mine
  • Enter open or confirm, U upgrade, S sell
  • Space next wave, F speed 1× or 2×, M maps
  • P or Esc pause

Touch

  • Tap a plot for the ring of towers, tap a tower to upgrade or sell
  • SEND WAVE, speed, pause and MAPS are along the top of the screen

Controller

  • D-pad or left stick to move
  • A / Cross for action, B / Circle for secondary
  • Start to pause

Tips for a better score

  • Towers aim at the raider furthest along the lane, so a plot inside a bend, where the lane passes on two sides, is worth far more than one beside a straight.
  • Arrows do only a quarter of their damage to shield bearers, and cannon shells do half as much again, so put a cannon where the shields will walk.
  • Calling the next wave early pays 2 coins for every second left on the countdown, and a gold mine pays 20, 35 or 55 coins at the start of every wave after the one it was built in.
  • Selling returns 70% of everything spent on a tower, upgrades included, so moving a tower to a better plot late in a map costs less than it looks.
  • Stars go by lives kept: 18 or more of your 20 for three stars, 10 or more for two, and any win for one. A brute costs two lives and the captain eight.

About Castle Lane

Castle Lane is a tower defence game on a parchment map. Waves of little rounded raiders walk a winding orange lane toward your castle gate, and you hold them off by building towers on the plots beside it. Arrow towers are quick and hit one raider at a time, cannons are slow but splash a whole group and break shields, frost towers slow everything near them, and a gold mine pays coins every wave. Every tower upgrades twice and sells back for part of its price. Walkers, runners, shield bearers, swarms and brutes each need a different answer, and a captain leads the last waves of the harder maps. Every raider that reaches the gate costs lives. There are twelve hand-made maps that unlock in order, each with three stars for the lives you keep, plus an Endless road generated fresh every run. A map in progress is saved at the start of every wave.

A free tower defence game that runs in your browser. Category: Action games. Made for RetroWorld with original art and sound.

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