

The player traverses the levels by sneaking past guards, impersonating Nazi soldiers and sometimes even killing opponents. The game is played from a top-down perspective, though the characters are seen upright like in a side-scroller. It combines adventure game elements with real-time action. There are eight ranks, beginning with Private, culminating at the rank of Field Marshal.

Progressively higher military ranks are earned upon each successful escape with the war plans, and the game becomes correspondingly more difficult as each higher rank is achieved. The game's main objective is to traverse the levels of the castle to find the secret war plans and escape alive. It was first released in 1981 and later ported to MS-DOS, the Atari 8-bit family, and the Commodore 64.Ĭastle Wolfenstein is a stealth-based action-adventure shooter game set in World War II. Castle Wolfenstein is an early stealth-based action-adventure shooter video game developed by Muse Software for the Apple II.
