Review
Navegador
Navegador is a dry, clever German euro with more than one path to victory. It did not win me over as much as Hamburgum, although that impression may also depend on which of the two you encounter first.
- Published
- 2010
- Designer
- Mac Gerdts
- Publisher
- PD-Verlag, Cranio Creations, Ediciones MasQueOca
- Players
- 2–5
- Playing time
- 90 min
Navegador was a Gerdts title I had somehow missed, and I ultimately found something very close to Hamburgum, both in its overall logic and in how it feels to play. It is one of those classic German euros: clever, restrained, and dry as ship’s biscuit, with no unnecessary decoration.
Its central appeal is that it does not push you toward a single recipe for success. There are several victory paths, and the game invites you to build your own direction through your choices, with the familiar clean logic of a euro that asks for careful planning.
In practice, though, I felt that its flow rewards commitment to one particular strategy more strongly. A little bit of everything does not seem to stand as comfortably against a player who has chosen a route early and pursued it consistently, and that is the part that left me more reserved.
I did not have a bad time with Navegador—far from it. It simply did not blow me away, and personally I would pick Hamburgum before it. Still, I suspect the order in which you discover them matters: someone starting here may well see it more warmly.
Source: BoardGameGeek
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