Castle Combo (Danish)

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

Each player uses coins to take 9 cards from 2 open markets on the table (the lower and upper town), creating a 3×3 grid of people who interact with one another to trigger immediate effects and end-of-game bonuses.

Each turn you add a character to your tableau a seemingly straightforward action that is central to strategic decisions. You must manage your keys carefully to influence the Messenger pawn at critical moments, as it controls which characters are available for recruitment from two different areas peasants and nobles.

It is just as important to balance your gold reserves so that you can afford the characters that best suit your strategy throughout the game. Choosing the right characters is crucial to maximising their immediate effects and the points they will contribute at the end of the game. Finally, it is important to arrange these characters carefully on your 3×3 board to unlock their full potential.

When everyone has played 9 rounds (i.e. everyone has 9 characters in front of them), the player with the most points in their tableau wins the game.