Castles by the Sea | Kites, Babies, and Dogs! OH MY! | Kickstarter Preview

Will you be able to support the shorelings in building their castles and protecting them from hazards? Here comes the BABY! Thanks for watching our overview and review!

Question of the Day: Tell about your beach adventure!

Castles by the Sea is designed by Jon Benjamin and Michael Xuereb and illustrated by Marby Kwong. This game is published by Brotherwise Games who helped sponsor this preview for you!

In Castles by the Sea you'll take a role of the shorelings working to build and rebuild a tiny sandcastle kingdom through this three dimensional spatial puzzle. Each turn you'll acquire sand blocks and place them on the beach board, ensuring you're able to meet the conditions of your pieces so you can place as many as you can as having pieces placed on the board will earn your sand dollars each turn. The player with the most sand dollars at the end of the game will win!

Will you be the most successful group of shorelings?

Just a reminder that what you see here today is a prototype so the final product may look slightly different!

0:00​​ Sand Castles
0:14 Castles by the Sea
1:08 How To Play
6:53 Player Count
7:53 Theme & Artwork
9:36 Hazards & Dynamic Gameplay
11:52 Who Would Enjoy This Game?
14:05 Shorelings!
14:51 Check Out The Kickstarter!
15:26 Question of the Day!
16:42 Thank you!

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[kovray]

Share a memory with us! Have you been to the beach before?

[BramBeardGaming]

What a creative use of plain wood blocks!

[timshaw]

I have backed this game and am excited for it. Growing up, I never went to the beach often as we camped in the mountains more often than not. That being said some of my favorite memories are swimming in the ocean and hanging out at the beach.

[karenpatterson]

What a cute theme. Def want to learn about this one. We go on family holidays to the beach each year with my mother and 2 sisters and the familes. Beach holidays are the best and so relaxing and a time for lots of board gaming.

[GutoGerbase]

Lovely tutorial and review, thanks folks

[brookruck]

It has been a long time since I've been to the beach since I live in a state now without much water, but one of my favorite times of year when I lived in Savannah, GA was the annual sand sculpture contest. It's crazy what people can create with sand and it all gets washed away!

[Seryn]

My earliest memory is going to the beach to collect shells, taking them back to the family cabin, laying them all out on the table and then one of them *moved* (I'd inadvertently grabbed a hermit crab). I completely flipped out and hid in bed 😅

[benjamindebetencourt]

Great video ! The theme is absolutely adorable, looks like Arietty at the beach ! Will definitely have a look at the kickstarter !

[inoutsoccer]

Thanks for this overview! I love Brotherwise and don’t have any games like this in the collection. Likely an insta back for me (pending price+shipping cost).
Fun fact: Boss Monster by Brotherwise was the first board game I ever backed.

[stephenlake]

When the kids were younger we used to take them to Post Stephens in NSW Australia. We would go down to a little sheltered beach and the kids could swim until it got too cold for them. But every now and again they would be joined by dolphin or penguin that took an interest in little humans.

Great review too, I think my favourite of the Brotherwise Games in Night of the Ninja, which only seems to get better as you add more people.

[maggieotter]

This theme looks so cute! Not sure if I’ll back it though, will have to keep an eye on the project.

When we lived in Florida, we took ours dogs Maggie Moo & Emmett Otter to the dog beach all the time and had so much fun. No destroying of sand castles involved though HAHA

[BoxedMeeples]

We love Brother Wise games for Overboss and Boss Monster. But didn't really get on with Santorini. Do you think this would be for us ?

[BrotherwiseGames]

Thanks for this awesome video! Because this is a prototype, we just wanted to share two updates you'll see in the final rules:

1. In a 2- or 3-player game, you'll move one Hazard and flip *both* other Hazards.
2. The Dragon will take out everything on the top two levels, but never takes out the bottom level.

Both of those updates add a little more danger and tension, but the game is still approachable for a wide variety of skill levels. In addition to the core game rules described in this video, check out our Kickstarter for advanced rules and variants that really amp up the game's strategy!

[gs-xor]

It seems cool and fun, but my concern it's who could I play it with. So what would you consider it's the weight of the game, according to BGG?

[olloplays]

It's been since pre-pandemic that I got to an ocean beach. But the great lakes are really stunning if you're in the Midwest. I promise you can build sandcastles there too 🤍🏖️