Review
Northern Pacific
Northern Pacific is a small, fast game that becomes far more tangled than it looks, especially with a big group around it. It has almost no rules, plenty of player pressure, and perhaps only so much life in it.
- Published
- 2013
- Designer
- Amabel Holland
- Publisher
- Rio Grande Games, Winsome Games
- Players
- 2–6
- Playing time
- 60 min
Northern Pacific is a compact little game with proper meat on it. The rules are practically nothing — the rulebook gets a clean A-minus — the play time fires past, and it accommodates a large table. Then the game knots itself up. Properly.
Almost no rules, slingshot pacing, a big table, and turns that become much more complicated than a game this small has any right to be. You will watch each other, decide whom to help, and, yes, make somebody else king. That is the whole meal.
Almost no rules, slingshot pacing, a big table, and turns that become much more complicated than a game this small has any right to be.
TheCuttlefish
It was the best new game I played recently. I am not convinced it has limitless replayability, though: its central idea is so clean that it may show its hand fairly early. Still, if you want to make friends, find out who at the table enjoys kingmaking, and get a satisfying dose of retro design, this is exactly the thing.
Northern Pacific may not live on the table forever, but while it does, it has claws.
Northern Pacific may not live on the table forever, but while it does, it has claws.
TheCuttlefish
Source: BoardGameGeek
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