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Escape the Dark Castle

Board · Paid · 3.2 out of 5 from 29 ratings

A companion app for the physical board game that tracks prisoner health and plague levels with atmospheric sound and visuals—if everyone in your group buys it.

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GenreBoard
PricePaid
Difficultyeasy
Ad intensitynone
In-app-purchase pressurehigh
Typical sessionvariable
DeveloperThemeborne
Rating3.2 out of 5 from 29 ratings

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★★★★★ Wonderful App for an Incredible Game I played the Dark Castle… ONE GAME… with my sons. Instantly fell in love with it. I purchased the Kickstarter collectible kit and discovered there was a companion app. The app is great - simple to use and it’s never let me down. I love that - if you lose - you can put the card code in the app and
Cool in theory… The fact that each player needs to pay is insane, and feels a bit scammy. Micro-transactions in a physical game is crazy.
★★ Nice idea but I thought this would be a true companion app for playing with friends locally, in person. But it seems each person needs to own the app. That is a no go. I was hoping I could use this one (paid) app instance on a single ipad to track all of our hp and add a soundtrack. Does not seem to work that wa

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