Let’s Play: Escape the Dark Castle
June 23, 2017 by lancorz
Tonight we Escape the Dark Castle from Themeborne!
Join Justin, Az and myself as we attempt to narrowly escape the depths of this wet, mysterious castle.
With only rags, mouldy bread and blunt weapons to defend ourselves with, will we make it out safely, or will the Castle consume us all?
Click Here To Back Your Own Copy Of Escape The Dark Castle On Kickstarter
Themeborne founder Thomas Pike said...
"We set out to capture the atmosphere of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, and from there design something a group of players could share at the gaming table.
Crucially though, we wanted it to be truly accessible for newcomers, even non-gamers. The result is an innovative, immersive game that anyone can play. The simple rules can be learned in five minutes and it lasts less than an hour."
**As a playthrough note, on the boss level it's ONLY the player who overturns the Boss Card who loses their items, not the entire team.
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Az’s heart clearly wasn’t into stealing that pie lol. Love the art on this one.
My morals! My morals! A bloodthirsty pair those two 😛
Az
Already love this after getting half way through the playthrough. Looking forward to getting this when the Kickstarter delivers.
And now I have to back this :O
Just played this with the family, amazing game (particularly intense for Manny my 4 year old lol)
But a vote at the end had 10 hands out of 10, held up high for more! 🙂
Good news, I’m looking forward to scaring my two boys with this one 🙂
Great entertainment for a cold winter night. I really like the art style.
Amazing game, backed on kickstarter as soon as I saw at the Games Expo and can’t wait to play
Just one thing… Minor spoiler alert… That last card it says ‘you’ discard your items and the you is bold, does that not refer to person who drew the card rather everybody? Would seem to make him a little less overpowered, what do you guys think?
We are aware of that and reckon it’s the player that draws the card rather than everyone. Otherwise, that is very hard indeed!
ah we would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for my Bad card reading (also I’m sure some pesky kids were involved) 🙂
retro cool story telling. with Ben and Lance on the kickstarter it’s in danger of becoming fashionable.
group play fighting fantasy with a clever dice mechanic, nice. Honestly, story telling is the future.
you did a great job setting the mood.
I’ve just watched the trailer and it’s epic.
Yea unfortunately we got the last card wrong, Justin did update the video comment but I actually feel it added some real intensity while playing so I’m very happy it all played out how it did 🙂 Az
Reminds me of Darkest Dungeon a bit (the PC game)…not sure if its based off it or not but it looks like a lot of fun 🙂
Bit of a mix between Darkest Dungeon and (take your pick) Fighting Fantasy. Very desperate and deadly!
I think this’ll be a classic in years to come. Backed the Kickstarter and I am pleased to say this looks great fun 🙂
If this has tickled your nostalgia bone, get yourself down to Fighting Fantasy Fest in September 🙂
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Thanks for sharing! This video not only introduced the Kickstarter campaign to me but gave me enough information to decide to back. Woot finally hearing about the cool ones while I still can back them.
I’m kinda sad I didn’t back this kickstarter. This game looks brilliant.
love the narrative style of this one, interesting dice mechanic too!