Last updated on June 1st, 2023 at 11:00 pm
Escape the Dark Castle
Escape the Dark Castle is one of the best $1.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Themeborne Ltd, Escape the Dark Castle is a Board game with a content rating of 9+.
It was released on 22nd April 2021 with the latest update 19th May 2021
Whether you are a fan of Board, Entertainment, or Adventure games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
16 people have rated 1.1
You can download the game Escape the Dark Castle from APP STORE.
Description
Track your prisoners’ stats in style with the Escape the Dark Castle companion app, featuring atmospheric sound and animation that blend with and enhance the tabletop experience.
Sitting alongside your character card, the companion app offers the following features:
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Track your Prisoner HP
Brutal heavyweight shackles represent your prisoners current HP. Press and drag to see the chain-links glow and rattle as you adjust your HP, while a tension building heartbeat increases in speed as you draw closer to death! -
Record your Plague Level
The Plague menu allows you to keep track of your plague level using tally marks as directed by the game rules. When you pass a Plague Threshold an animation is triggered – automatically adjusting your HP on the shackles. -
Manage Companions
When Companions enter the game, select them via the Companions drop-down menu, where you can adjust their HP and trigger their special abilities to mirror their in-game actions. -
Access Digital Rules and FAQ
Via the Settings menu you can access browser-based searchable digital rules and FAQ to help you get quick clarifications during play without hunting through the physical rule book. -
Connected Soundtrack
The settings menu also has links to the atmospheric ETDC soundtrack on Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp – meaning you can easily play it in the background, combining with the SFX from this app for full immersion into your dark adventure. -
Solo or Local Multiplayer
You can play a 2-prisoner solo game on one smartphone, or Host a game which up to three other players can Join using their own devices. During hosted games, all player’s prisoner names and HP levels are displayed in real time on each device, and you will phase in and out of game states together as a group for maximum atmospheric connectivity. -
Pass the virtual ‘YOU’ token
Tap on the YOU icon and a list of your fellow prisoners will be displayed. Choose who to pass the token to and you’ll hear a heavy metallic sound on that players’ device as the token lands with them! -
Free Integrated Death Book!
When your prisoner dies, enter the code of the card which finished you off and the app will display your doom – a contextual death scene to read aloud and bring full narrative closure to the story. The Death Book is normally sold separately for £9.99 but is included and integrated here for free!
Please note:
-A copy of the Escape the Dark Castle board game is required to use this application.
-This application is compatible with iOS 11 onwards.
-An internet connection is required to use the network features of this application.
-This application is limited to one user per device.
Escape the Dark Castle © Copyright 2017-2021 Themeborne Ltd. Escape the Dark,
Escape the Dark Castle, the Escape the Dark Castle logo, Themeborne and the
Themeborne logo are either ® or ™, and/or © Themeborne Ltd, registered in the UK. All rights reserved. No part of this product may be reproduced without specific permission. Actual components may vary from those shown. Themeborne Ltd is located at Kirkham. House, Norwich, NR3 2AG, UK. www.themeborne.com
Updated on 19th May 2021
Audio bug fixed.
Escape the Dark Castle Reviews
Kinda lame you have to have your friends all buy the app too instead of one person buying the game and hosting it. Like jackbox or something. Otherwise its cool!
The board game is great, and we bought this mostly because it had the death book. But am we really to expect all of our friends to buy it too? What if we have someone new? Do we require them to buy it as well? This app is great for single player, but there really needs to be free version that allows friends to only join games. Hosting can still be behind a paywall.
We love Escape the Dark Castle and the idea of an app to keep track of HP and have a virtual death book is great. Unfortunately, even though you have to pay $1.99 there are so many bugs and issues that makes the experience frustrating. Themeborne really needs to overhaul this app or at least make it free. We also dont like how every person in the party needs to pay for the app in order to use it. If theres a paywall, it should only be there if you want to host a game or play solo, but not everyone playing should have to pay 1.99 for this.
A lot of app add little except a distraction to a game, ending up as little more than cumbersome single use calculators. Not the case here. Clearly carefully designed to fit the mood of the game and to work with rather than against you this app adds a great deal to the standard play experience. A pleasure to have purchased.