Castles by the Sea + Riptide Expansion + Wooden Upgrade ComponentsCastles by the Sea is a puzzly sandcastle building game for 1 4 players. As a group of tiny folk called "shorelings," your goal is to build and populate a seaside kingdom. Each turn, you'll place blocks and meeples on the map to earn victory points. The core gameplay is similar to abstract strategy games like Santorini, in that players must optimize three dimensional placement on a shared grid. Hazards are the only source of randomness in the game,