''Age of Empires: Castle Siege'' was a free-to-play

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game in the form of a Windows app, designed for

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and

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. Released in 2014, the app featured micro-transactions to aid in rapid development of a castle and to improve defensive and attacking capabilities. It was developed by Smoking Gun Interactive and Microsoft Studios, and was formally announced on August 26, 2014. Unlike any preceding ''

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'' game, ''Castle Siege'' takes the form of a tower defense game. ''Castle Siege'' was made available on

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in 2015 and Android in 2017. On November 13, 2018, Microsoft Studios announced that it would close the game on May 13, 2019, and since then, it is presently not working.

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* {{Age of Empires series 2014 video games Castle Siege Android (operating system) games Free-to-play video games IOS games Tower defense video games Universal Windows Platform apps Video games developed in Canada Windows games Windows Phone games