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Castles of Mad King Ludwig, the tile placing board game adaptation, is on sale right now for iPhone and iPad

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Castles of Mad King Ludwig, the tile placing board game adaptation, is on sale right now for iPhone and iPad
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Castles of Mad King Ludwig is on sale right now on the App Store for just 99p / 99c, which is a pretty good price for a pretty good board game adaptation.

It's a game about building castles. But, as you might be able to tell, you're building castles for a mad man. Called Ludwig. And he's got some very strange ideas about what a castle should be like.

These ideas make the rules of the game, which is all about pulling tiles from a deck and using them to build a sprawling palace for the slightly bonkers ruler.

This makes no sense

Every turn you buy a room from a set of tiles. Then you need to place them in your castle. There are a huge number of possible combinations, and thanks to the king's delirium each tile is crammed with text and additional rules.

The game is mainly offline, with a campaign that sees you struggling against both an AI and Ludwig's own increasingly confusing rules. There's pass and play multiplayer too, if that's the sort of thing you're into.

So yeah, The Castles of Mad King Ludwig. 99P / 99c. Buy it on the App Store right now by clicking this link here.

Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.