Castle Panic

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Castle Panic
Designers Justin De Witt
Publishers Fireside Games
Publication2009
Genres Strategy board game
Players1–6
Setup time10 minutes
Playing time60 minutes
Skills Strategy

Castle Panic is a board game designed by Justin De Witt and published by Fireside Games in 2009 [1] [2] [3] Castle Panic is a tower defense strategy game in which players work cooperatively to protect a castle from monsters. The game was a nominee for the 2010 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game.

Contents

Gameplay

The game is set up in a circle. The circle is divided into 6 arcs of 4 rings each. Each arc is assigned one of three colors; blue, red or green. Each ring of the circle is subdivided and labeled either forest, the outermost ring, moving inward with, archer, knight, and swordsman rings respectively. [4] [5] The objective of the game is to kill the monsters invading from the forest before they can destroy your castle. Each player has their turn in order trading, attacking, and potentially repairing their castle. After the players turns, monsters are added and move toward the castle. If they have already reached the edge of the walls or towers of the castles they will attack the obstacle in front of them. If all the towers are destroyed the monsters win and the players lose. Monsters are defeated by using cards from the current players hand to attack them. Each card attacks in its colored area and class location, e.g. a blue archer can only attack in the blue archer space. The exception to this rule is the hero who can attack in any ring of their color.

Each turn consists of 6 six steps

  1. Draw cards up to the hand limit.
  2. Discard and then draw a new card (optional). This is useful to remove cards that aren't helpful to the player.
  3. Trade cards with other players (optional). This allows you to get the cards you need to survive while giving players cards they will also want or need.
  4. Play as many cards as you want. This of course is used to defeat monsters and protect your castle.
  5. Move monsters into the next closest ring.
  6. Draw two new monster tokens and add them to the board. Their position is determined by a roll of the dice.

Awards and accolades

ToysBulletin.com's Best of the year 2014 [6]

Castle panic was nominated for an Origins Award. [7]

Castle Panic was also played on an episode of TableTop, a popular internet series. [8] [9]

Castle Panic: The Dark Titan by Justin De Witt won the 2016 Origins Fan Favorite Award for Best Game Accessory. [10]

Expansions

Castle Panic: The Wizard's Tower released in 2011. [11] This expansion adds many new things. These include a new wizard's tower with a wizard card deck which includes new spells to attack monsters and defend and rebuild the walls and towers. There are also new monsters, bosses, game modes and fire to add more challenge to the original game.

Castle Panic: The Dark Titan [12] released in 2015. [13] This expansion adds a new boss monster, Agranok, along with more powerful enemies. Players now have a cavalier, boiling oil, and barrage to help combat the new threats. [14]

Castle Panic: Engines of War [15] was released in November 2016. This expansion gives the enemies encampments and siege engines, but provides the players with ballistas, catapults, and an engineer who can build pits, traps, and barricades on the battlefield.

It has been revealed on Fireside Games Instagram that there will be a fourth expansion to the game with an unknown release date

Promotion Items

Promotion items have been released each year in connection with Gaming Conventions.

Panic Variations

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