Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
8+
Playtime
45 min
Complexity
2.2/5
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Description
A tile placement drafting game for one to four players where players build vertical castles over twelve rounds while fending off wolf attacks and scoring village tokens
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TheGameBoyGeek - Hi Quality Hi Energy Board Game Reviews Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Amazing table presence with verticality of building walls.
- Drafting tiles facilitates strategy.
- Village tokens multiply action strength, creating an exciting arc.
- Cooperative and solo modes available.
Cons
- Losing points for wolves getting through wall sections.
- Losing points for archer wolves attacking.
Thematic elements
- The three little pigs defending against an army of wolves by building castles.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — There's also cooperative and solo modes.
- End game scoring — Setting your strategy for endgame scoring for the specific section of your village it's in.
- Set Collection — Establishing prestige, which is worth two points at the end of the game.
- Solo Play — There's also cooperative and solo modes.
- tile drafting — You'll be drafting wall tiles and placing them to defend against the wolves.
- Tile Placement — Placing them to defend against the wolves. These wall tiles also activate abilities that they cover.
- Variable player powers — Establishing prestige, which is worth two points at the end of the game.
- Worker Placement — The wall tiles can also help you settle villagers, which strengthens actions you'll take throughout the game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- In Castle Raisers, the three little pigs are no longer little, and the big bad wolf is no longer one, but an army.
- Brick houses are not enough to repel their forces, and so the pigs have turned to castles to save their hides.
- Castle Raisers has an amazing table presence with the verticality of building the walls of your own castle.
- It really feels like you're trying to keep those wolves out.
- Drafting the tiles facilitates your own strategy for your castle, knowing the actions on that wall will be ones that you'll be able to possibly take later by covering them.
- Placing the village tokens help multiply the strength of actions, creating an exciting arc to the game as you have more powerful turns as the game goes on.
- There's also cooperative and solo modes, both introducing threat cards that present challenges which need to be completed as you outscore the wolf threat.
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Tabletop Tolson Review at 0:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Delightful, well-made components
- Excellent asymmetry and startup variability
- Fun mix of drafting, building, and floor/line interactions
- Multiple play modes: competitive, cooperative, solo, and two-player variant
Cons
- Fortification tiles may seem underwhelming at first but are powerful and essential
- Attack mechanics can introduce conflict depending on group dynamics
Thematic elements
- Fortress building and defense against wolves invading from three sides
- Medieval fairy tale fortress siege inspired by The Three Little Pigs
- Fairy tale framing with pig characters and wall-building.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- asymmetrical player boards — Each board starts with slightly different icons/positions, creating dynamic starts.
- Direct interaction through attacks — Players can attack others by triggering certain actions, affecting table dynamics.
- End-of-age timing — Three ages with end-of-age effects that affect scoring and wolf siege.
- Icon-based activation and cauldrons — Covering icons activates bonuses (e.g., cauldrons) and affects future actions.
- tile drafting and placement — Players draft and place wall tiles to extend their fortress, overlapping lines with underlying tiles.
- Tile Placement — Players draft and place wall tiles to extend their fortress, overlapping lines with underlying tiles.
- Village tiles and scoring zones — Tiles placed in specific colored regions grant victory points, with line-crossing scoring bonuses.
- Wolves and siege tokens — Wolves are drawn and placed; weaknesses and enemies create negative points and threats.
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Quotes (from this video)
- "Castle Razor. delightful game."
- "The two-player variant is dynamite."
- "The competitive version of this is really fun. It's light."
- "There's some nice bag draw with the wolves"
- "do not underestimate fortification tiles."
- "Just enough going on here"
- "brain tug where you're activating what you cover up which you can't see anymore"
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Brains On Games Review at 0:41 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Accessible entry point for drafting/placement games
- Short, thematic, and strategically rich for a family-weight title
- Beautiful component quality and well-thought box organization
- Knits multiple mechanisms into a coherent, satisfying puzzle
- Non-targeted attack mechanic reduces interpersonal friction and keeps it fun
Cons
- Rulebook can be confusing in the box; older versions had inconsistencies
- Villager/token scarcity can limit options in three- to four-player games
- End-of-round and end-of-age scoring can feel a bit opaque at first; some players may prefer a clearer scoring flow
Thematic elements
- drafting, fortification, wolves attacking a castle
- Three Little Pigs-inspired medieval castle defense across straw, wood, brick eras
- abstract thematic veneer with cute art but with notable strategic depth
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action activation via icons — when a wall covers an icon, the corresponding action is activated.
- Drafting — players draft walls and villagers from a market to place on their castle board.
- end-game scoring across zones — points are earned for villagers, attested bonuses, and tall walls, with penalties for wolves entering the castle.
- era-based progression — game proceeds in three ages (straw, wood, brick) with end-of-age effects and scoring adjustments.
- first player token and prestige — the first-player token provides both initiative and prestige/points bonuses.
- reinforcement and attack flow — attacking actions force all opponents to draw wolves from a bag, creating a shared risk mechanic.
- soup/kettle mechanics — kettles of soup remove certain wolves from the board, adding a resource management layer.
- Tile Placement — walls are placed on the castle to create a staggered layout that blocks or enables actions and raises defenses.
- tile/placement and wall-building — walls are placed on the castle to create a staggered layout that blocks or enables actions and raises defenses.
- wolf tokens and variable threats — wolves of several types enter the farm/forest/ocean zones; wolves reduce points and must be removed by various means.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a brand new game. It's got a Three Little Pigs theme, but it's not a game for kids at all.
- Castle Razor is a greatl looking game actually for one to four players.
- it's not really a kids game, even though it looks that way.
- It's not too long um that you could have in between some heavier euros, for example.
- this is a neat game with some strategy, but it's very quick.
- I was surprised to see that this was a game for grown-ups, a good filler game because it's not too long.
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