{"product_id":"a-grade-escape-the-dark-castle","title":"*A Grade* Escape the Dark Castle","description":"Escape the Dark Castle is a casual, cooperative game of retro-atmospheric adventure.\n\nPlayers take on the roles of prisoners, wrongfully incarcerated in the depths of The Dark Castle. Whether it ’s the Abbot, the Tailor or the Cook, each prisoner is represented by a character card and a custom character dice showing that prisoner ’s unique endowment of Might, Cunning and Wisdom  – the game ’s three traits.\n\nEmbarking on a desperate quest to escape, the players must work together to overcome the castle ’s many horrors, traps, and challenges - each of which is represented by an over-sized chapter card. 15 of these chapter cards are drawn at random from a larger deck to create a unique castle at the beginning of each game.\n\nGameplay involves one player revealing a new chapter card each turn, in a motion like turning a page of a storybook. There is no turn order. Instead, players decide as a group who will turn the next chapter card, and there are often grisly consequences for the one that does. When a card is turned, the next chamber or passageway into which the prisoners have stumbled is revealed.\n\nOnce revealed, the chapter card will explain the situation facing the group and what must be done to get through it. In the style of choose-your-path adventures, most chapters offer the group a choice about how to proceed. Bribe the drunken guards or attack them? Charge the beast or lure it out? Steal from the kitchen stores or keep moving?\n\nEach chapter is a unique mini-game and a variety of mechanics are required to complete them, from push-your-luck dice rolling to the playing of item cards collected along the way that bolster player ’s tactical abilities. \nWhen the players choose to enter (or fail to avoid) combat, all players roll simultaneously to make an attack against the enemy. They need to collectively muster the right combination of Might, Cunning and Wisdom to defeat the foe in question, or risk taking damage.\n\nThe goal of the game is for the group to complete every chapter in the castle deck, and then defeat the final boss. To win, they must keep every member of the team alive - if any player is killed the game ends immediately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Please note that all items within our outlet section contain a level of damage to the packaging, which in no way effects game play. A Grade products will arrive in their cellophane and have superficial damage to the box. Full descriptions of our grades can be found on our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.board-game.co.uk\/outlet\/\"\u003eOutlet page\u003c\/a\u003e, for more information please check our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.board-game.co.uk\/terms-conditions\/\"\u003eterms and conditions\u003c\/a\u003e.","brand":"themeborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56711373128058,"sku":"OUTLET-ZBG-THETBL001-A","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/9970\/8282\/files\/ZBG-THETBL001.jpg?v=1774012057","url":"https:\/\/zatu.com\/products\/a-grade-escape-the-dark-castle","provider":"Zatu Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}