Menu

A mystery box filled with miniatures to enhance your RPG campaigns. All official miniatures and for a bargain price!

Buy Miniatures Box »

Not sure what game to buy next? Buy a premium mystery box for two to four great games to add to your collection!

Buy Premium Box »
Subscribe Now »

If you’re only interested in receiving the newest games this is the box for you; guaranteeing only the latest games!

Buy New Releases Box »
Subscribe Now »

Looking for the best bang for your buck? Purchase a mega box to receive at least 4 great games. You won’t find value like this anywhere else!

Buy Mega Box »
Subscribe Now »

Buy 3, get 3% off - use code ZATU3·Buy 5, get 5% off - use code ZATU5

Rule The Reef In Coral Castle!

Mermaids. I didn’t think I had an opinion on them, to be honest with you, but hey, once you start thinking about something you never know what’s going to pop up. This is just the way my brain works, right, but it’s not a bad life, being a mermaid. You ever notice how they tend to turn up more often in the Med, the Caribbean, places where I’d like to go on holiday? Never see them lolling around Whitley Bay on a grey January morning. It’s not a coincidence. If I was a mermaid (anything’s possible) I’d be away too. Hang around this miserable isle, or live the high life around Capri? See ya. It’s not all fun and games, though. Mermaids have got a job to do…

Coral Castle is a game for 2-6 players aged 11 up (with a solo mode also planned) and should take around 45 minutes to play. It’s designed by Travis Deere and published by Lime Green Games, and the mermaids here drift (haha) more towards the nice ones than the fangy ones you see in one of them Pirates of the Caribbean films. And do you know what nice mermaids do? (No, not that.) They tend gardens under the sea. This is a card drafting game in which the aim is to have the best mer-garden in this part of the ocean.

You’ll draft nine cards per player, using the pass around technique, so think carefully about which card you want to choose before you pass the deck on. Once drafting is finished, count up the pearls in the top corner of your cards and collect that many from the central supply. This is where your card selection in the drafting phase will prove essential: the sole purpose of some cards is to afford you pearls, and they cannot be played in the next phase.

Easier to learn than 7 Wonders and more depth than Sushi Go, Coral Castle is great for hardcore gamers, casual gamers, gamer families, and anyone that wants more mermaids in their life! Coral Castle sounds to me like an ideal family game, one that might be great to introduce some of your younger family members to new mechanics in the board gaming hobby – train ‘em people, get ‘em involved. All mermaid fans get yourselves over to the Kickstarter page and sign up to get notified on the crowdfunding launch date.