Escape the Dark Castle

Recommended for Ages 14 & up
1-4 Players
20-45 minute playtime

Description:
Escape the Dark Castle is a simple, cooperative game of retro-atmospheric adventure.

Players take on the roles of prisoners, wrongfully incarcerated in the depths of The Dark Castle. Whether it™s the Abbot, the Tailor or any of the six playable characters, each prisoner is represented by a character card and a custom character dice showing that prisoner™s unique endowment of Might, Cunning and Wisdom “ the game™s three traits.

Embarking on a desperate quest to escape, the players must work together using custom dice and item cards to overcome the castle™s many horrors, traps, and challenges - each of which is represented by a large, illustrated chapter card. At the beginning of each game, 15 of these chapter cards are drawn at random from a larger deck to create a unique castle every time.

Gameplay involves one player revealing a new chapter card each turn, in a motion like turning a page of a book. When a card is turned, the next chamber or passageway into which the prisoners have stumbled is revealed.

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Designer(s):
Alex Crispin
Thomas Pike
James Shelton

Artist(s):
Alex Crispin

Board Game Geek Category(s):
Adventure
Card Game
Dice
Fantasy
Horror

Board Game Geek Mechanic(s):
Cooperative Game
Dice Rolling
Paper-and-Pencil
Push Your Luck
Role Playing
Storytelling