This indie strategy game has hit its Kickstarter goal

Trendy survival games likeRustandDon’t Starvehave had one interesting feature that rarely get’s talked about: you can’t actually win at these games. That’s the main concept behind the small-scaleRetro-Pixel Castles, an indie strategy game from Raymond Doerr. Yep, that’s right — Raymond has done all the coding, art, and music. Pretty darn impressive.

The main component is building your tiny little pixelated village and surviving against the harsh elements and invading monsters.Retro-Pixel Castlesreached its fairly modestgoal of $5,000 on Kickstarterbut there’s time left in the campaign to reach some stretch goals.

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Raymond’s been working on the game for over six months and there’s an early build that you candownload from the official websitein case you want to try it out beforehand.

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