Castles of Mad King Ludwig

4,3
1,04K reviews
10K+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this game

"Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a great port of a really cool castle building board game." TouchArcade

"A diverting tile-laying game. Excellent series of puzzles and tough AI." PocketGamer

Ted Alspach's castle-building board game comes alive on Android! The winner of the prestigious 2015 Mensa Mind Games award tasks players with building extravagant castles for King Ludwig of Bavaria. Castles are constructed one room at a time, with a different player each round setting the prices for the others, resulting in a competitive, engaging game where building is as much fun as winning!

Choose your strategy carefully as you compete against your friends or computer AI opponents. Or take on the Campaign, and travel to 15 real-life castle sites, each with up to 3 unique Crown Goals, providing hours of fun and challenge.

• Two to Four Player Pass-and-Play/Computer Matches
• Campaign Mode with Levels based on Real Castle Sites
• Training Tower Levels teach Game Basics
• Help System with Illustrated Rules, Tips, and Tile Reference
• 75 Different Room Tiles
• Orchestral Soundtrack
• Share Your Castle on Twitter, Facebook, and more

* For the best user experience, devices with 5-inch screens or larger running Android 4.4 (KitKat) or higher are recommended. *
Updated on
28 Sept 2025

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Ratings and reviews

3,9
822 reviews
JT Siren
11 July 2024
This is a great game, and a good implementation with two minor gripes: 1. In one-player mode, I always begin as the first player, always. It would be better if that was variable. 2. The pass button is right where my thumb is for scrolling the board, and on several occasions I've passed on accident while just trying to look around. I would recommend a "confirm decision" step for this and other times when I wasn't quite ready to commit to my placement. Otherwise a great little game.
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Jenn Brouse
11 March 2024
Extremely fun game! My only complaint is that it's missing a few key components from the official board game, such as swan tokens, secret passages, purple (bonus) cards and actual castles. Despite all that, if this game had an online multiplayer option, rather than having to pass around a device, I would give it 5 out of 5 stars!
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A Google user
22 December 2018
This game seems okay at first but it is buggy af. Don't ever go to zero coins or the computer will only ever get gold on its turn when you should get it (even if it already has 60+). The computer players always seem to know what cards are in your hand and will alter how much they charge accordingly. there are levels of the campaign downright unbearable unless you happen to get ridiculously lucky every single turn. I only gave two stars because if fixed it would be really fun. As is, sucky.
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