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Open The Gates!

72% positive of 66 Steam reviews

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Released
2022
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Robin van der Horst.

About the game

Build, manage and defend your medieval castle in this crazy sidescroller RTS game. Build walls, towers and traps to protect your fortress from enemy sieges before launching your own. Command powerful siege weapons and design the perfect strategy to take back the empire.

Tagged by players

  • RTS
  • Real Time Tactics
  • Military
  • City Builder
  • Base Building
  • War
  • Building
  • Linear
  • Economy
  • Medieval
  • Strategy
  • Historical

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Open The Gates! is a medieval real-time strategy game developed and published by Robin van der Horst that presents a creative spin on the castle-building formula by shifting the action into a side-scrolling perspective. Instead of simply imitating genre classics, it builds its own identity through a combination of settlement management, defensive planning, and tactical warfare. The story follows a fractured empire…

    7.5 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    This is a fun little game, until it suddenly gets way too hard. I like tug of war games like that - while different, the Kingdom and Circle Empires series are some of my favorite games, but they are balanced, or offer sandbox that prevents you from hitting a wall. It's a shame, because Open the games is charming little game that reminded me of Stronghold, and the game is cheeky - when was the last time when you…

    5.7 h played when written. 10 found it helpful.

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