The Castle Doctrine overview

Overview

The Castle Doctrine comes from Jason Rohrer and is published by Jason Rohrer. It arrived on Steam on Jan 29, 2014, and it sits naturally among Multi-player, MMO, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Castle Doctrine's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 5 October 2026 - 00:02:52 UTC, with a tracked peak near 2. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 49% positive across 379 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Castle Doctrine is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Castle Doctrine has sold up to 21,442 units and has 265 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $223,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Castle Doctrine overview details

The Castle Doctrine combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

The Castle Doctrine is a massively-multiplayer game of burglary and home defense. It's 1991, and things are bad. You're a guy with a house and family. Other players are coming to take what's yours. Build security to stop them. Study their houses, buy tools, and break in to take what's theirs. Everything you do is permanent. I'm Jason Rohrer, and The Castle Doctrine is my 10th game. It's a bit hard to describe, because there's never been anything quite like it before. It's a brutal game in terms of its perma-death and perma-destruction consequences, and it is turn-based, so it's rather Rogue-like. But building such a brutal game in a multiplayer context, with absolutely no cushion between players to stop them from brutalizing each other, is quite strange and new. Everything is real in this game. When you rob someone, you are actually hurting another player in a permanent way by destroying and stealing their hard work. When someone dies in this game, they lose everything and start over. If you devise perplexing security systems, you can perma-death other players when they come to rob you. Watching those security tapes, where someone gets what's coming to them, is an exhilarating experience. On the other hand, you just killed someone and perhaps caused them to lose days of their hard work. And you've been on the other side too, losing everything because of some thoughtless move you made in someone else's house. But there is no randomness in this game, so everything is fair. When you die, it is always your fault. When things get dicey, you can always retreat back out the front…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Castle Doctrine is listed as a game with $3.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Multi-player, MMO, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, Massively Multiplayer, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 5 October 2026 - 00:02:52 UTC, a tracked peak of 2, and 49% positive reviews.

Overview tags

IndieMassively MultiplayerStrategyPerma DeathDifficultPuzzle2DPixel GraphicsSimulationRogue-likeDark

Support and legal notes

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