Castles of Mad King Ludwig
2014 · 1-4 Players · ~60-90 min · Competitive
Castles of Mad King Ludwig lets you build absurd, sprawling castles by purchasing rooms from a rotating market where the current master builder sets the prices, creating a dual puzzle of spatial placement and economic manipulation. The castle you build tells a visual story of your strategic priorities, and the pricing mechanism adds player interaction that pure tile placement games lack. The room market randomness can feel punishing when the rooms you need don't appear, and the master builder rotation creates a learning curve for the economic metagame.