Castlebound
A downloadable game
You wake in a dungeon cell with a pounding head and no memory of how you got there. The castle staff consider you little threat. That is their first mistake.
Lure a maid or guard into the cell, take her uniform, and use your new disguise to explore the castle. Complete duties to earn trust and rank, enter restricted areas, and uncover clues about the curse hanging over the castle.
Every uniform opens new doors. Every task makes you better at your role—but the castle gradually rewrites the body and identity of anyone who works within it.
Rise through both the maid and guard ranks, investigate the castle’s hidden rooms, and piece together what happened before the curse erases the person you used to be.
Features:
- Two interconnected progression paths: Maid and Guard
- Duties, tools, promotions, and changing uniforms
- A task journal, investigation notes, and clue tracking
- Restricted areas unlocked through rank and exploration
- A magical shrinking ring with hidden routes and new dangers
- Multiple endings determined by the clues you discover
- A single-player, story-focused RPG Maker adventure
This is an early playtest build. Progression, dialogue, balance, artwork, and some scenes remain in development.
Content notice: All characters are adults. Castlebound contains imprisonment, amnesia, non-graphic violence, involuntary magical body and identity transformation, coercive role-conditioning, and size-changing peril.
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Development log
- Quest break fix12 hours ago
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I cannot start any maid tasks. The quest log says I need supplies from the Maid Storage Cleaning Station, which is not a room anywhere on the map. I can't get the tools, I can't do the tasks, I can't progress the game.
The commenter below me couldn't proceed at all either. There's a difference between releasing an early build and releasing a build with no play testing at all. Please actually confirm basic functionality of your game, and preferably have some friends do a bit of initial testing, before putting out a public release.
How much of the game is done? Because I cannot do much of anything, and I can't tell if it's a bug or not.
Interacting with all the things at the checkpoint does not progress the quest, I cannot take any duties as either a guard or maid, and the only interactivity is being punished for entering the Head Maid/Guard's office as the opposing type. The punishment duty can be finished at least. And leaving the castle entirely to get the first bad end.
no that would be a bug. you should be able to take tasks of the guard/maid the one you dressed as. I'll have to see where i missed a flag as the game is meant to be closer to 80% just in need of art and some other bits. thanks for pointing that out.
I should have it fixed from what I've seen; hopefully, things are fixed the rest of the way through.
they aren’t. I understand this is a work in progress and that you are only one person. HOWEVER-
Can only do training drill and armory inspection as guard. Maid storage room is either not labelled, or is hidden so well I cannot locate it. Is it that little section in the northwest area of the common room?
Referring to the guards by their duty in the work log is all well and good, except I have no idea who is what when all I have is their name.
Cannot switch jobs as either maid or guard. Attempting to change outfit only displays “change into guard uniform” when dressed as a guard, with both changing rooms. Vice versa when wearing a maid outfit.