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Escape the Dark Castle
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Escape the Dark Castle is a simple, fantasy adventure game for 1-4 players, with a focus on storytelling, atmosphere and player cooperation – perfect for newcomers to tabletop gaming. It takes 2 minutes to set up, lasts around 30 minutes, and no two games are ever the same.
Players take the roles of prisoners and 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, beautifully illustrated chapter card.
As these immersive chapter cards are revealed one by one, the game takes on the form of a shared storytelling experience, with the players making decisions about what to do each chapter as they embark on a desperate quest to escape.
The goal of the game is to complete every chapter in the castle deck, and then defeat the final boss. To win, you must keep everyone alive - if any prisoner is killed the game ends immediately.
Contains:
- 45 chapter cards
- 35 item cards
- 6 character cards
- 3 boss cards
- 1 start card
- 9 chapter dice
- 6 character dice
- 1 scorepad
- 4 pencils
Escape the Dark Castle on BGG
Theme: Dark Fantasy
Players: 1-4
Game Length: 20-45 Minutes
The Team:
Designers: Alex Crispin, Thomas Pike, & James Shelton
Artist: Alex Crispin






The game itself is a bit repetitive, and a few times rather easy while most other play throughs are fun and challenging. There’s been a few play throughs that ended quite quickly and turned out to be rather easy, but those are few and far between. Really it’s just a the luck of the draw.
Overall this title has turned into my go to game whenever I just get that itch to play but don’t want to deal with an elaborate setup. It’s not complicated, easy to learn and as I said, it can be a bit repetitive after you’ve played through it enough times, however, there’s enough variety to hold my attention and there’s something addictive about the game that keeps me coming back to it.
Highly recommended!