Castle Panic
About
A Coop survival game as you and your friends fend off waves of monsters that are trying to destroy your castle. While it's one of the simpler coop games available, it's a fine introduction and playable with a wide range of ages.
- Expansions Include
- The Dark Titan
- Engines of War
- The Wizard's Tower
- Variations Include
- Munchkin Panic
- Dead Panic
- Star Trek Panic
Thoughts
Tim:
2.5/5
A fine little game, but lacking in depth and strategy. The strategy is to simple play every single card you can on your turn every time. This leads the game to "playing itself". Other people have mentioned that they find it to easy and recommend the Wizards Tower expansion. Unfortunately they don't seem to say that it adds a great deal of strategic decisions, rather it just makes it more difficult. A shame as I think there should be a few simple tweaks that could really improve this game. But, after lots of trying, I have yet to think of any.
Laura:
2.5/5
A fine game for the target audience, but not a lot of replayability beyond that. Castle Panic is a light and fun game appropriate for children learning to play cooperative games with one or more adults. There aren't many difficult choices, and the player is allowed to reveal what cards they have, so everyone can create a plan of attack together. While I found the game easy and limited on choices versus luck, it was still a cute game. I would be interested in attempting to increase the difficulty and amount of strategy to make it an ice breaker game for adults.
Trivia
- Created in 2009
- Technically there is a "winner" but I have no idea why anyone would wish to play with this rule.
4-5-2021