Castle Combo - Board Game Review - What A Surprise!

Castle Combo - Board Game Review - What A Surprise!

A quick and nifty card game by the publisher of Faraway.

Each player will spend coins to draft 9 cards from 2 open markets on the table (the lower and upper city), creating along the game a 3x3 square of people interacting with each other to trigger instant effects and end-of-game bonuses.

Castle Combo is a tableau-building game that combines simplicity with deep, engaging gameplay, offering highly satisfying experiences.

Each turn, you add a character to your tableau—a seemingly straightforward action that packs a punch regarding strategic decisions. You'll need to carefully manage your Keys to influence the Messenger pawn at critical moments, as it controls which characters are available for recruitment from two different areas – peasants and nobles.

Balancing your Gold reserves is equally important, ensuring you can afford the characters that best suit your strategy throughout the game. Selecting the right characters is crucial to maximising their immediate effects and the points they will contribute at the game's end. Finally, carefully arranging these characters on your 3x3 board is key to unlocking their full potential.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
01:24 - Basic Overview
03:08 - The Review

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[lajeit]

"But he tends to love everything"😂😂😂 glad that I'm not the only one who thinks that about Rahdo.

[ourfamilytogether]

I preordered. I also preordered Faraway last year and was so pleasantly surprised with it. 30+ plays of Castle Combo on BGA already. Love it.

[jamescartwright]

Excellent stuff as always Luke. Reminds me of Skulls of Sedlec.

[mattp]

Thanks for the insight. Picking up my copy today and wanted to see what an honest reviewer had to say about this game. 🍻

[alicia]

This has been a lot of fun to play on BGA. Great little game!

[mikaeki]

These short reviews are golden. Thanks, Luke.

[JayBee]

Between Faraway and now this, I’m excited to see what this team puts out next in terms of little card games. Both are great to play on BGA and a lot of quick fun!

[ralphbecket]

What a splendid review -- thank you! This sounds like it might have that Lost Cities magic.

[MrJonnyalpha]

I've got this on the way already. I think we'll like it a lot.

[Malacheye]

Loving this game on BGA. I also love your scale. You give real meaning to a 1-10 scale! I need to watch your seti review! If gave it a 10 ot must be amazing!

[leoesu]

Super excited about this. Thank you for the review. Looking forward to it hitting retail stores in the US.

[VikingKittens]

I finally found this game and you were right. What a fantastic filler. Great review! Cheers

[boazdror]

Love this game, play it a ton on BGA and have ordered it from Australia for *way too much* money. It reminds me of Downtown Farmer's Market but better. Thanks for your review!

[玩物喪志-vw]

I have finally tried castle combo on BGA but I would say I prefer faraway...

Luke if you haven't played faraway you should try it! Castle combo is more convoluted version of faraway and its easy to get caught into AP problem.

[FalkFlak]

I get Village Green and Point Salad vibes from this.
Both games I own and it's hard to see what it adds to the mix.

[nobbynobbs]

Makes me think of Fantasy Realms, but with an additional spatial orientation on top

[elqord.]

Oh Luke, every now and then you surprise me with how much you adore these absolute run of the mill games. I played this and thought. It’s fine. That’s it. Nothing wrong it but it gives me nothing. To come here to find out that you found this one excellent truly baffles me. Of course I respect your view but for the life of me I fail to see what makes you hand out a 9 to this when we have seen dozens and dozens of games that work similarly and don’t do a bad job to get their point across

[icarusmustburn]

I’d like to see this at 2 players compared to Confusing Lands, which may be a bit deeper with less components, and possibly the better game.

[TabletopTurtle]

You're right, this is easily one of the best filler games available right now and it feels like it came out of nowhere. I've played this game into the ground on BGA.

[KidJV]

10:30 man i wish this plays good with higher player count as our playgroup is growing but will pre-order nonetheless