📘 Castle Watch — How to Play

Goblins are marching toward your castle. You line the road with towers and try to stop them on the way. Castle Watch is a tower defense game: it rewards planning, not reflexes. You get time to think before every wave, then watch whether your layout actually holds.

1. Pick a map and a difficulty

Three maps: Green Pass is the gentlest, Snake Creek is long and winding, Narrow Gorge is hardest because its road is short. Choose Easy, Normal or Hard — Easy starts you with 22 lives and 190 gold.

2. Tap empty grass to build a tower

You can build on any tile that is not road, tree or castle. Tapping shows the range circle, so you can see how much of the road that tower covers.

3. Use both tower types together

The Archer Tower (blue) fires fast at a single target and is cheap. The Bomb Tower (purple) is slow but damages every goblin near the blast. Bombs shine in crowds, archers against single tough enemies.

4. Start the wave and watch

Press START and goblins come in from the left. Every goblin that reaches the castle costs you a life. You can switch to 2x speed any time.

5. Spend your gold on upgrades

Every goblin drops gold and every cleared wave pays a bonus. Tap a tower to upgrade it — there are three levels. Build wider or upgrade deeper is the real decision in this game.

6. Finish 15 waves, then go endless

The campaign is 15 waves. Clear it and Endless Mode unlocks: waves keep getting stronger and your best wave is saved per map and difficulty.

What to expect at this age

A 7-8 year old usually builds one tower type and lines them all up next to each other — that is enough on Easy. Around 9-10 the idea that "a tower near a corner keeps enemies in range longer" clicks. By 11-12 the choice between building more towers and upgrading existing ones becomes deliberate. The game never forces this: Easy can be finished with no plan at all, but on Normal a player who only builds archers stalls around wave 13 and has to discover the bomb tower.

At home and in class

The game suits taking turns: one child builds, another starts the wave, and you watch what happens together. Asking "how many goblins got through, and where did they leak?" after a wave pushes the child to actually read the map. Endless mode creates natural competition too — who gets further on the same map and difficulty?

Tips

• Build near corners — enemies stay in range longer there.
• A few maxed towers usually beat a tower on every tile.
• Bomb towers are weak alone; pair them with archers.
• Selling refunds 60% of what you spent, so moving a badly placed tower is cheap.
• There is no timer between waves — take your time.

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