Pillage the Village

Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:33:00 GMT

pillage the village

Pillage the Village is the spiritual sequel / literal prequel to Defend the Castle. The story explains why your antagonists in DtC are angry with you in the first place… apparently you went around throwing people into the air and slamming them into the ground, occasionally crushing them with their own houses and casting wicked spells on them.

And that’s how the game plays, basically. Prevent the villagers from escaping to the left and right sides of the screen by hurting them mercilessly with simple physics. In between rounds, you can buy magic spells with your dirty blood money. It’s fun, it’s simple, it’s relatively inventive. And the game does a good job of introducing new villager types to make your life harder (God how I hate those dopes with the parachutes).

Beware some of the technical issues, though. Occasional ads displayed between levels can cause the game to hang if you have Firefox with Adblock, or Safari. The game will also churn on slower computers. Look out! (XGen Studios has since contacted me to tell me that they have since fixed these problems.)


By the way, Jay is Games (source) describes this game as “a smashmortion of click-tastic mayhem!” (Snicker, he said smashmortion.)

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  1. Jesus said about 4 hours later:

    Can you even kill parachute guys?

  2. Nikica said about 5 hours later:

    Click on the parachute!

  3. gnome said about 9 hours later:

    Oh my!

  4. Patrick said about 11 hours later:

    Heheh, yeah I read a preview of Superbad earlier yesterday, so I figured, fuck it.

  5. Jesus said about 14 hours later:

    thanks, any way this game is good after the first 6 lvls you get sick of it though

  6. krizzl0r said 1 day later:

    the game is 4w3s0m3!!!!!11einself

    but after the first bonus level it starts loading smth and then the sound comes and then nothing happens and then i went here and then i posted like a four year old.

    :|

  7. Dave Cobb said 1 day later:

    This game is seriously addictive. It’s got the exponential grinding of MMOs, a simple and casual interface, and quite impressive and rocking execution.

    Must…stop…crushing…villagers…

  8. Skye Boyes said 6 days later:

    The FF adblock hang issue has been patched and should now be resolved. A number of other technical issues were addressed with v1.0.1, and we’ll continue to patch the game as new issues are identified and resolved.

    Changelog here: http://forums.xgenstudios.com/showthread.php?t=103875

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