Escape the Dark Castle

🇺🇸 United States
Themeborne Ltd  | 
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App Rating
4.3
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Votes
4K
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App Age
4y 8m
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Last Update
Dec 09, 2025

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Category Top Average
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Installs
4.1K
70.8M
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Rating
4.19
4.51
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
1.6K
78.1M
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App Age
4y 8m
6y 6m
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Price
$1
$1
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In-app Purchases Price
$0
$93
Update Frequency
43d
64d
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Title Length
22
24
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Short Description Length
78
67
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Description Length
3 296
2 730
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Number of Screenshots
680
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Escape the Dark Castle
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An atmospheric companion app to enhance the Escape the Dark Castle board game.
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Track your prisoners’ stats in style with the Escape the Dark Castle companion app, featuring atmospheric sound and animation that blend with and enhance the tabletop experience. Sitting alongside your character card, the companion app offers the following features: • Track your Prisoner HP Brutal heavyweight shackles represent your prisoners current HP. Press and drag to see the chain-links glow and rattle as you adjust your HP, while a tension building heartbeat increases in speed as you draw closer to death! • Record your Plague Level The Plague menu allows you to keep track of your plague level using tally marks as directed by the game rules. When you pass a Plague Threshold an animation is triggered - automatically adjusting your HP on the shackles. • Manage Companions When Companions enter the game, select them via the Companions drop-down menu, where you can adjust their HP and trigger their special abilities to mirror their in-game actions. • Access Digital Rules and FAQ Via the Settings menu you can access browser-based searchable digital rules and FAQ to help you get quick clarifications during play without hunting through the physical rule book. • Connected Soundtrack The settings menu also has links to the atmospheric ETDC soundtrack on Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp – meaning you can easily play it in the background, combining with the SFX from this app for full immersion into your dark adventure. • Solo or Local Multiplayer You can play a 2-prisoner solo game on one smartphone, or Host a game which up to three other players can Join using their own devices. During hosted games, all player’s prisoner names and HP levels are displayed in real time on each device, and you will phase in and out of game states together as a group for maximum atmospheric connectivity. • Pass the virtual ‘YOU’ token Tap on the YOU icon and a list of your fellow prisoners will be displayed. Choose who to pass the token to and you’ll hear a heavy metallic sound on that players' device as the token lands with them! • Free Integrated Death Book! When your prisoner dies, enter the code of the card which finished you off and the app will display your doom – a contextual death scene to read aloud and bring full narrative closure to the story. The Death Book is normally sold separately for £9.99 but is included and integrated here for free! WARNING - This app contains fast flashing images. It may cause discomfort and trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Please note: -A copy of the Escape the Dark Castle board game is required to use this application. -An internet connection is required to use the network features of this application. -This application is limited to one user per device. Escape the Dark Castle © Copyright 2017-2021 Themeborne Ltd. Escape the Dark, Escape the Dark Castle, the Escape the Dark Castle logo, Themeborne and the Themeborne logo are either ® or ™, and/or © Themeborne Ltd, registered in the UK. All rights reserved. No part of this product may be reproduced without specific permission. Actual components may vary from those shown. Themeborne Ltd is located at Kirkham. House, Norwich, NR3 2AG, UK. www.themeborne.com Privacy Policy: https://themeborne.com/policies/privacy-policy}
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4.3
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Some Latest Reviews

Madeline Folz
26 Dec, 2025
2
Would have loved to try, but found out after purchase that EVERY player must purchase not just the host. Unsurprisingly, no one wanted to. Even worse, the app still has ads despite having paid for it which is ridiculous. IMO, app should be free with ads- this would be especially helpful for players who don't own the game and aren't intending on keeping the app downloaded. or give out 4 vouchers for app with the board game- already spent money on this game it sucks to have to spend even more
Black Normandy
07 Jul, 2025
5
Works great! Love that it has the deaths included!
Jimmy Forrester-Fellowes
12 Apr, 2025
1
not a game, listed under board games! can't refund
christopher lz
11 Jun, 2021
5
Amazing companion app! Death book ☑ Soundtracks ☑ Health bar counters ☑ Cool animations and sounds ☑ Tracking plague ☑ Multi characters counter ☑ Ease of use ☑
David Quirke
31 May, 2021
2
Disappointing, no ability to run a multiplayer game off the one device. And making every player pay for it, seems like a bit of a cash grab. Better solution would be for the host app to be paid, and additional players can have a free app that lets them only join games.
Knightworm
28 May, 2021
5
Great companion app for my favorite board game. Sometimes you don't want to use pen and paper or don't have the collector's box health tracks
LordOfDirections
25 May, 2021
5
A great addition to the board game, the SFX and music are a nice way of adding to the immersion
bret stelmar
21 May, 2021
5
Very well-built app, for a great game. I love that includes the soundtrack as well, very handy if you own the game
Shaun Mohr
20 May, 2021
2
Not a super helpful app, you should be able to run the game from one app. You need four apps for four people, which is really just a money play sin e only the game owner gets it for free. Loved the idea, but I am not asking my friends to buy an app to play a game.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.25
Voted: 4K
Google Play Link:
Price: 2.67 $
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Categories: Board
Size: -
Installs: 3.93K
App Age: 4 years 8 months
Release Date: Apr 22, 2021
Last Update: Dec 09, 2025
Version: 1.3.3
Version history
1.3.3
Dec 09, 2025
A bug with the victory screen has now been fixed
1.3.2
Oct 16, 2025
Extra bug fixes
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