Castle Panic – Loads of Fun

Tuesday, February 16 2010 -

I went looking for a new game to play with the kids this weekend and stumbled across this title by Fireside Games.

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This is a cooperative game, which games it great for the younger kids. The game plays fast and takes very little time to setup.

The basic play is as follows

Setup you castle towers and walls. When all your towers have fallen, it’s game over.

Setup the initial attacking monsters.

Let the mayhem begin.

Each turn the monsters advance on your castle and the players take turns playing cards: Archer, Knight, Swordsman and try and kill all the monsters before they get beyond your walls. Watch out for the boulders that crush everything in their path, including your towers.

Players can trade cards, give advice, etc. Everyone wins or looses together. There is an element of scoring, should you survive, so that means there is an additional level of strategy, but if you get greedy everyone might die!

I played a couple of solo games to get the feel (lost). Devan and I played two games (won both) and then Devan and Jade and I played (won). After that Devan and Jade played another couple of games. All told we got a good 5 hours of entertainment out of this one game on the first day we owned it. Not bad.