Castle Corp

A 2009 Nitrome strategy game where you deploy jetpack knights onto launch pads, then click to fire them into a discount rival's towers across 25 levels of office-war absurdity.

🏰 Castle Corp: Jetpack Knights, Corporate Targets

Nitrome's 2009 Flash strategy game casts you as management. Your firm sells castle fittings, a discount rival has taken the trade, and the boss wants that rival's towers brought down. Briefings come as breezy internal emails, and the men sent out fly on jetpacks.

What makes it unusual is that your units are the projectile. You set a man on a pad and click a target; most stages fall to one well-angled launch.

🎯 How a Stage Unfolds

1. Choose one of your knights from the menu and set him down on a pad.
2. Leave him alone and he marches until a guard blocks the way.
3. Click a destination and he blasts toward it, wrecking whatever he meets.
4. Collect gold bags and crack chests to pay for gear.
5. Scroll stages wider than the window by pushing the pointer to an edge or holding an arrow key.

⚔️ Staff, Cages and the Shop

Four knights answer on day one: Sir Andrew, Sir Galahad, Sir Edmund and Sir Francis. The roster runs to 23, with the rest caged around the stages; free one and he signs on later.

Gold pays for the shop near stage 3; hover an entry for details, and sell back anything you regret.

• Barbarian Beef-Up Shake, $300 — swells his frame and adds a mace, so blows land harder.
• Power Bomb, $300 — three charges that detonate seconds after placement.
• Battery Chicken, $400 — a thin bird that flies and rarely lays an egg.
• Triple Crossbow, $500 — three bolts at once, bouncing off metal and ignoring spikes.
• The $800 Chicken — carries him the full width of the field and drops exploding eggs more often.
• Sword Cannon, $900 — three large blades wherever you click, good at range.
• $1000 Remote Control Steed — a wheeled robot horse that rolls fast, clears the path and ejects its rider.
• Magic for Dummies, $3000 — turns him into a wizard; the pink blast frogs whatever it touches.
• Dragon Breath, $5000 — a purple orb that passes through walls and metal, and the priciest entry.

👹 What Guards the Towers

Each stage mixes its defenders: enemy knights holding the walkway, bats hovering near gold, domes lobbing cabbages and turnips. Dragons arrive late, two on stage 19, with ghost knights, arrow towers and pig guns behind them.

💡 Practical Tips

• One fight each. A newcomer beats a single guard; send the same man into a second bout and you lose him.
• Pipes are lifts. They bounce a knight upward, which is how ceiling gold gets collected. Spikes bounce nothing.
• Aim ahead. Momentum carries, so aim past a moving knight rather than at him.