Eurogames with theme are my jam! Worker placement, hand management, and tableau building in spades. The game flows smoothly with minimal downtime, encouraging deep strategic planning across multiple turns, such as hiring staff to unlock better events or managing the timing of tile usage. Production quality is top notch.
Great game, especially with 4 players. The attrition mechanism that occurs after every round means that resources become scarce very quickly and the outlook for making it through the northwest passage bleak. Stays very true to the theme throughout the game. My only issue is that it needs a lot of room to lay it out but I love the way the map is revealed as you play the game making it harder to predict what will happen next.
