Castles of Caleira (2018)

About this game

Castles of Caleira is a beautifully illustrated, fantasy landscape microgame that uses clever interaction, and strategic decision trees to garner incremental advantage over your opponent. Players build their castle using one of the 18 cards per turn, to hinder their opponent or build the strongest citadel, to ultimately end up with the Castle that history remembered. Castles of Caleira hopes to incorporate vivid story-telling, and luscious art direction to immerse players in an epic prelude to the Cutlass Boardgame Universe. —description from the designer

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.1/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 8 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.