Best Bag Games in 2026

Tense Teamwork: You and your friends are in the castle desperately strategizing and playing cards to defend your towers from a charging horde of monsters.

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Choose Your Challenge: Play this value-packed cooperative board game for adults and kids in 4 different ways. Fight alone, work together, become the Master Slayer, or survive an all-vs-1 battle.

EXPANSION TO CASTLE PANIC FAMILY STRATEGY BOARD GAME BASE: To play this expansion, you will need a Castle Panic base game. The Wizard's Tower adds a deck of spells to play against the Monsters, but now there are flying Monsters, Mega Boss Monsters, and fire to deal with. Can be played with 1 to 6 players, ages 10 and up. Average playtime is 60 minutes.

COMMUNITY/SOCIAL EXPERIENCE: The Wizard's Tower extends the social experience of Castle Panic and helps families and board game groups bond. As you explore the unique magic spells and talk through the best ways to defeat the new Monsters, you will enjoy getting to know the other players.

FUN GAME WITH HIGH REPLAY VALUE: With new Castle cards, a whole new Wizard's deck of spells, 49 new Monsters, flame tokens, a new Tower, and Monster draw bag, players will have new fun experiences every game.

"EXPANSION TO CASTLE PANIC FAMILY STRATEGY BOARD GAME BASE: To play this expansion, you will need a Castle Panic base game. The Dark Titan adds an 8-point Monster, his army of Elite Monsters, a Cavalier, Boiling Oil, and Support tokens. Can be played with 1 to 6 players, ages 10 and up. Average playtime is 60 minutes.

COMMUNITY/SOCIAL EXPERIENCE: The Dark Titan extends the social experience of Castle Panic and helps families and board game groups bond. As you work together to strategize how to defeat the 8-point Monster, you will enjoy getting to know the other players.

FUN GAME WITH HIGH REPLAY VALUE: With five different levels of play for Agranok, new Castle cards, 17 new Monsters, new Support tokens, and a Cavalier with new in-game rules, players will have new fun exploring this expansion every game.

EXPANSION TO CASTLE PANIC FAMILY STRATEGY BOARD GAME BASE: To play this expansion, you will need a Castle Panic base game. Engines of War brings an Engineer, new Resource cards, new weapons, and Siege Engines to battle. Can be played with 1 to 6 players, ages 10 and up. Average playtime is 60 minutes.

COMMUNITY/SOCIAL EXPERIENCE: Engines of War extends the social experience of Castle Panic and helps families and board game groups bond. As you decide together which new weapons to build and how to best defeat the Siege Engines, you will enjoy getting to know the other players.

FUN GAME WITH HIGH REPLAY VALUE: With an Engineer to build 5 new weapons, a new Keep, new Siege Engines, and new Monsters, players will have new fun exploring the new, economic element of this expansion every game.

A crazy cat collecting game for 3 - 6 players

40 custom cat miniatures in three different poses

Easy-to-learn, fast playing game that appeals to a broad audience

A COMPLETE ALL-IN-ONE COLLECTION: Castle Panic Big Box includes the base game (Castle Panic), 4 expansions (The Wizard’s Tower, The Dark Titan, Engines of War, and Crowns and Quests), and 13 promo items in the new 2nd Edition art style

STRATEGY GAME: Players draw, discard, and trade cards to plan the best attacks on the monsters in this highly thematic game. As monsters emerged from the forest, players must plan for monster effects that can change the monsters or cards in their hands.

COOPERATIVE BOARD GAME: Teamwork is essential to defend the castle against the horde of monsters streaming out of the forest so work together and plan carefully to slay monsters as they move and enter the colored arcs and rings.

Combines the all-for-one feel of Castle Panic with the all-for-me play of Munchkin

New card combos created from mixing the decks of the 2 source games

Hopeful, desperate, addictive gameplay keeps players coming back for more

Each box supports 4 players (add a box to include more players) for 20 minutes of fun

Perfect for families, parties, icebreakers, and mixers

High-energy gameplay with quick decision making and high tension

Supports 1 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, for 45 minutes of city-smashing fun

Clever movement options heighten choices and limit downtime

Riotous Monster combat system combines luck and skill reading opponents

Supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up, for 60 minutes of fun

High-energy real-time dice-rolling mechanic to generate resources

Varied development card choices to build custom compounds

EXPANSION TO CASTLE PANIC FAMILY STRATEGY BOARD GAME BASE: To play this expansion, you will need a Castle Panic base game. Quests change up the way the game is played and adds variety to your weekly game night. Can be played with 1 to 6 players, ages 10 and up. Average playtime is 60 minutes.

COMMUNITY/SOCIAL EXPERIENCE: Crowns and Quests extends the social experience of Castle Panic and helps families and board game groups bond. As you explore the unique abilities of each character and talk through the best ways to complete the quests, you will enjoy getting to know the other players.

FUN GAME WITH HIGH REPLAY VALUE: With 12 different characters and 18 quests that take on a different feel when paired with each other, players will have fun every game. Win conditions change from the base game, and the quests change the game so much that they are more like mini expansions.

BALANCED FAMILY STRATEGY: Great cooperative game for teaching kids strategy and logic; Try Castle Panic to kick off your next weekly game night; Can be played with 1 to 6 players ages 10 and up; Average playtime is 60 minutes.

GATEWAY GAME TO THE WORLD OF STRATEGY: Perfect for newer players and for a less competitive gaming experience; Work with friends to defend your castle against a horde of monsters or risk them tearing down your walls and destroying your precious towers

FUN GAME WITH HIGH REPLAY VALUE: Four ways to play (fully cooperative, cooperative with a winner, one-vs-many, and solitaire), customize level of difficulty, and random monster draws; Add any of the 4 expansions to the base game to deepen the experience.

Fun, steampunk - themed card game!

Build the best steampunk airship to win

For 2 - 5 players, aged 8 and up

This upgraded version of Castle Panic features the same great mechanics you've loved for over 10 years, now in a special, limited edition.

This collectible version includes all-new art, plastic pieces for the castle, plastic monster miniatures with a unique rotatable base to track damage, wooden monster tokens, promo items, and more!

Includes 10 promo items!