Rogues Gallery will be hosting a demo of Castle Panic, a cooperative strategy game for 1 to 6 players ages 10 and up, which will be hitting the store for sale in the last week of September. Though it is getting national distribution, Castle Panic is the first game from a new local game company, Fireside Games. Some of the staff have already played the game, and found it to be a lot of fun in the vein of Pandemic or Shadows Over Camelot. The demo will be on Saturday, October 3rd from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
The basics are: Players must work together to defend their castle, in the center of the board, from monsters that attack out of the forest, at the edges of the board. Players trade cards, hit and slay monsters, and plan strategies together to keep their castle towers intact. The players either win or lose together, but only the player with the most victory points is declared the Master Slayer.
Players must balance the survival of the group with their own desire to win.
You can find more details about Castle Panic at the official website for Fireside Games.
