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Semi-unrelated but this reminded me of the countless hours I spent playing Castle of the Winds[1] as a kid.

Based on this thread I went searching for it and, as it turns out, the original author is working on porting[2] it to Unity!

[1]: https://www.mobygames.com/game/842/castle-of-the-winds/

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/CastleOfTheWinds/comments/172ckn6/i...

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While imperfect, I nevertheless adored Reign of Swords/Clash of Kingdom on my old iPod touch back in ~2008.

I've looked for a replacement for years but 99.9% of similar games on the App Store are spam/pay to win/microtransaction hell with the typical cheap ugly "international" art style.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/10/06/reign-of-swords-revi...

https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/08/03/reign-of-swords-2-re...

https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/02/07/mobile-battles-reign...

http://web.archive.org/web/20111001213349/http://www.mobileb...

Oh man, that reminds me of my childhood in rural Greece, where the only software I could get was from magazines, where they downloaded demo/shareware versions of stuff and put it on a CD.

Obviously there was no way for me to pay or get the full software, so I spent hours and hours playing the same levels over and over in the demo.

I loved Castle of the Winds, and another turn-based games with pirates. There was also a similar one with tanks and such, called Metal Knights maybe?

Holy fuck I completely forgot about that game. I spent hours and hours and hours playing that game as a kid.

I probably logged 50 hours just in the free demo level.

So many hours trying to farm cube slimes to get rare items in that game. I loved it.

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