2026

Cats & Dungeons

2–6 players 20–40 min Ages 8+ 1.0/5 complexity 0.0/10 rating

About this game

A fast-thinking card game where you are an adventurous cat fighting for the greatest treasure. Choose your class, sabotage your friends' plans, and escape the Dragon's dungeon! In Cats & Dungeons, players are adventurous cats escaping a dungeon while grabbing as much treasure as possible. The game is played in real time. All players act simultaneously, placing tiles from their hand onto the shared table. To place a tile, it must be aligned against at least one tile already on the table and form at least one door to door connection. Tiles cannot be rotated, and once placed they cannot be picked back up. Each player also has a Collapse tile that can be played on top of creature tiles to block enemies. Once a player places all their tiles, they grab an Exit tile from a shared stack. The player who takes the last Exit tile ends the round. But beware! There is not enough Exit tiles for everyone, so you must hurry! Scoring uses a rock-paper-scissors system. Each cat and creature tile shows a symbol. When two tiles are connected side by side through a door, their symbols duel: wins score the defeated creature's coin value, ties score 1 coin, and losses score nothing. The Exit card also adds its printed coins to the player's total. The round winner earns a gold chest, the runner up earns silver. Two silvers convert into a gold. The game ends when someone collects 3 gold chests.

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Rock-Paper-Scissors Tile Placement Grid Coverage Square Grid Race Real-Time Zone of Control Connections Score-and-Reset Game Map Addition Action / Dexterity Real-time Party Game

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