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Morbid Fortress First Look | A Dark Little Write-and-Erase Solo Game

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Prefer watching full episodes on your phone vertically? I also uploaded a phone-friendly vertical version of this playthrough here: https://youtu.be/M3ttz7qSL_A Buy this game: https://doomthoughts.itch.io/?ac=hWzDVqqHXvG I’m playing **Morbid Fortress**, a new 18-card print-and-play solo game from Doom Thoughts, the maker of *Doom Machine*. This is a teach-and-play session where I go through the setup, explain the basics as I play, and try again after a previous recording where I made one small rule mistake. In Morbid Fortress, you’re building up a necromancer stronghold while crusaders keep marching in and trying to tear it down. The fun part, at least on this first real look, is how much the game leans into erasing and rewriting the board state. Buildings take damage, shields reduce incoming attacks, resources get converted, and you’re constantly deciding whether to build more defenses or start turning everything into points. I played on the easy difficulty here and ended up with a pretty wild 14 to 1 win, which is a lot better than my first attempt. I’m not ready to say where this lands for me long term, but I like the foundation and want to try the harder sides next. ░░ Wakasm Links ░░ » Website: https://www.wakasm.com » Honest reviews, curated rankings, tier lists, and longform playthroughs for video games and solo board games. » Contact: boardgames@wakasm.com » Patreon: https://go.wakasm.com/patreon » Discord: https://go.wakasm.com/discordwp1 #MorbidFortress #SoloBoardGaming #PrintAndPlay #BoardGamePlaythrough #RollAndWrite #SoloBoardGame #BoardGames #TabletopGames #DoomThoughts #wakasmPlays #wakasm ▰ About Morbid Fortress ▹ Solo Print-and-Play: An 18-card fortress defense game where I’m building a necromancer stronghold while crusaders keep pushing in. ▹ Roll-and-Write Defense: Dice drive both my resources and the crusaders’ growing attack power, so good rolls can still come with bad news. ▹ Dry Erase Fortress Crafting: The game uses sleeved cards and dry erase marks for resources, building progress, damage, repairs, and scoring. ▹ Build, Break, Repair: Finished structures can absorb damage, unlock shields, trigger powers, and give me the points I need for the final check. ▹ Rules-Mistake Replay: I recorded this after catching one small mistake in an earlier loss, then somehow won this run 14 to 1. 🔗 Playlists & More: ► Morbid Fortress Full Let's Play Gameplay Playlist: https://go.wakasm.com/morbidfortress ► Solo Boardgaming Let's Play Gameplay Playlist: https://go.wakasm.com/soloboardgaming ▰ Date Played 06-25-2026 ▰ Connect with Me » YouTube: https://youtube.com/wakasm » Website: https://www.wakasm.com » Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wakasm.bsky.social » Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/wakasm » Twitch: https://go.wakasm.com/twitch » Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/wakasm » Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wakasm » TikTok: https://go.wakasm.com/tiktok » Patreon: https://go.wakasm.com/patreon ▰ Music Credits Intro: "Moonlit Skyline" by Nilhore Outro: "God Bear" by Nilhore Additional Music: Fesliyan Studios (with permission) ▰ Wakasm Logo (ASCII) ░██╗░░░░░░░██╗░█████╗░██╗░░██╗░█████╗░░██████╗███╗░░░███╗ ░██║░░██╗░░██║██╔══██╗██║░██╔╝██╔══██╗██╔════╝████╗░████║ ░╚██╗████╗██╔╝███████║█████═╝░███████║╚█████╗░██╔████╔██║ ░░████╔═████║░██╔══██║██╔═██╗░██╔══██║░╚═══██╗██║╚██╔╝██║ ░░╚██╔╝░░╚██╔╝░██║░░██║██║░╚██╗██║░░██║██████╔╝██║░╚═╝░██║ ░░░╚═╝░░░╚═╝░░╚═╝░░╚═╝╚═╝░░╚═╝╚═╝░░╚═╝╚═════╝░╚═╝░░░░░╚═╝

Morbid Fortress

Morbid Fortress

2026Nathan Meunier

1 players

30 - 45 min

About Morbid Fortress, from BoardGameGeek:

Morbid Fortress is a dark necromantic stronghold crafting and defense roll-and-write game for one player. This challenging print-and-play focused 18 card game revolves around rolling dice and using a dry erase marker to write on sleeved cards as its central fortress crafting mechanic. Gather and craft macabre resources, build grim structures, and defend your unholy fortress from crusader onslaughts. To win, you must build and maintain a strong enough fortress to withstand the final assault. Each round spans multiple phases. In the roll phase, you'll roll your three dice and evaluate their impact on the strength of the encroaching crusaders. As you progress down the crusader round track, you'll also eventually trigger crusader rally points that queue up future attacks based on your roll numbers. You'll then use your roll results to harvest resources by marking them down on your resource tracker - with the ability to modify results by spending available "eyes of influence." During the production phase, you can spend basic resources to craft advanced resources, buy construction cards, work towards building structures, and repairing damaged structures. Marking off all of the building requirement icons on the structure face flips the card to its built side and makes its abilities and defense capabilities available to you. When the crusaders attack on certain rounds, you'll defend, use abilities, and absorb damage across your finished buildings in a bid to prevent the crusaders from breaking through and increasing their strength for the final assault. You win by surviving long enough to reach the end of the round tracker, then scoring high enough to beat the crusaders' power gauge. -description from the designer

Designer

Nathan Meunier

Publisher

Self-published

Categories

Card GameCity Building

Mechanics

Dice RollingActing & Drawing

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