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Castaway

Castaway 2020

Design Ellie Dix Publisher The Dark Imp
7.3 /10
BGG rating
2.0
Weight
1–100
Players
20–30
Minutes
7
Age

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About the Game

You are stranded on a desert island. Use the resources at your disposal to make life more comfortable and/or increase your chances of rescue. Get points for developing your island. But will you try to make a home on this tropical paradise or do everything you can to get out of there?

Castaway is a 'roll and write' game. One player rolls the dice and each player decides how they will use the dice rolls on their own board. The dice show the coordinates on the map and indicate the area you must work on each turn. The choice of action within that area is yours. Will you cut down trees or plant new ones? Will you build a shelter or plunder a shipwreck? The choice is yours.

The game finishes when one player is rescued, abandoned or becomes self-sustained.

Castaway is a 'Placemat' game - a game contained entirely within an A3 placemat (including the rules). Just add two standard D6 dice.

On the reverse side of each placemat is a second game - Beach Life.

Both games have a desert island theme.

—description from the designer

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Mechanics
BGG ratings
2
BGG data
refreshed Aug 13, 2026