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Asmodee Expedition Northwest Passage

4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
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Age Range (Description) 14 years to 18 years
Number of Players 2
Brand Asmodee
Theme Adventure
Material Wood

About this item

  • The powerful theme of travel and adventure mixed with innovative mechanics
  • Plays in 60 minutes
  • For 2-4 players, ages 14 & up
  • Colorful art and wooden tokens
  • Push your luck to beat the other players and explore the Arctic Circle - recreate a piece of history
  • Place tiles and choose your route carefully
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In 1845, Sir John Franklin led an expedition to discover the route that would connect the Pacific and Atlantic. When he disappeared, explorers from Britain and America set out to find the missing voyage and succeed where Franklin failed - by finding the Northwest Passage. Carefully place exploration tiles, maneuver around ice floes, discover islands and send your crews on sleds across solid land. Be careful - as the seasons progress, the North gets colder and the last thing you want is to find yourself stuck in the ice, losing crews and equipment. Be the first to discover the route to the Pacific to earn the Prestige you need to bring victory for your team! CONTENTS 1 board, 64 large exploration tiles, 32 small exploration tiles, 9 cairn tokens, 9 Inuit tokens, 10 Franklin tokens, 12 strait tokens, 20 cartography tokens, 4 Northwest Passage tokens, 3 Greenland tokens, 1 solar disc, bag; 4 individual boards, 4 ships, 4 sleds, 4 scoring discs, 32 crewmen; 1 rule booklet.

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4.2 out of 5 stars
4.2 out of 5
26 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the theme, saying it's a really cool and sweet idea. They also appreciate the mid-19th century look, and the sturdy map tiles. Customers also describe the game as fun, enjoyable, and a great euro strategy game.

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Customers find the game fun, enjoyable, and great. They also appreciate the use of exploration and narrative in the game.

"...-gathering and worker placement work very well to give a sense of navigating unexplored territory...." Read more

"The game is pretty fun. I loved the use of exploration tied in with the narrative. The flipping and pairing of titles provided a nice game element...." Read more

"Good game but the theme of a race to get to the northwest passage does not always win you the game. May things give you points in this game...." Read more

3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

Customers find the theme of the tabletop game cool, sweet, and nice. They also mention the map tiles are sturdy and the mid-19th century look is augmented by the wood.

"...The game pieces are made of wood, which augments the mid-19th century look; and the map tiles are sturdy and thick...." Read more

"...The flipping and pairing of titles provided a nice game element. I've played once so far with a full group of people and it was really enjoyable...." Read more

"...The sun moving around for the seasons on the ice is a pretty sweet idea. Making the landscape with the tiles is also a challenge." Read more

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Hans Walters and Martha Hiatt
5.0 out of 5 stars Great game!
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015
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Great euro strategy game with a really cool theme! The game pieces are made of wood, which augments the mid-19th century look; and the map tiles are sturdy and thick. The combined mechanics of tile-laying, resource-gathering and worker placement work very well to give a sense of navigating unexplored territory. The movement of the solar disk adds tension to gameplay, and keeps the game moving at a good pace (as well as preventing overly-long game time). Rulebook is short and easy to understand. This has quickly become one of our favorites.
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Pablo Perez
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy buen Juego.
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2019
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Llego en tiempo y forma.
El producto era lo que esperaba.
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Sean Matthew
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Exploration Game!
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2014
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The game is pretty fun. I loved the use of exploration tied in with the narrative. The flipping and pairing of titles provided a nice game element. I've played once so far with a full group of people and it was really enjoyable. After going through all the instructions and storyline it took an hour or so to get through the game. I narrowly lost, shameful.

Would suggest this game to people who enjoy Catan, Carcassonne and Thurn & Taxis.
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I. Wells
2.0 out of 5 stars The moves are quite stilted and do not feel like a ship on water or a sled on ice
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2017
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The moves are quite stilted and do not feel like a ship on water or a sled on ice. It becomes quite an effort to play because it is not too fun. The games looks and feels nice. The sun moving around for the seasons on the ice is a pretty sweet idea. Making the landscape with the tiles is also a challenge.
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A. Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars Good from what I hear from the
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2017
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bought as a gift. Good from what I hear from the recipient
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YourCallCannotBeConnected
5.0 out of 5 stars Unique gameplay design requires long-term strategy as well as play-by-play tactics.
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2016
A much more involved take on tile placement games. I like Carcassonne, but while it's simplicity makes it great for super casual quick gaming or as an intro game, it's not really that involved when you want more strategy and game play.

Expedition Northwest Passage adds several elements to the tile placement that keep it engaging, strategic, slightly tactical, and fun. First of all, the way you track your actions by moving crewmen around is really cool, theme-relevent, and make it easy to keep track of things - but at the same time, additional actions on that turn cost more, so you really have to judge when the best time is to do certain things. You can spend a lot more actions to swoop past your opponent and grab some quick points, but lose out on the rest of that round and possibly fall behind. It's a fun game of exploration and strategy.

What makes it extra fun is that the seasons change and the water freezes and thaws, and this adds an entirely new dimension to the game than just your turn/my turn/game over; this aspect alone makes it quite unlike 99% of any other Euro-style games out there, and it guarantees you *must* have a long-term strategy in mind rather than just play-by-play tactics.

Overall, the gameplay is really great - historical, easy to grasp, and with enough variation to keep it from getting repetitive. The game pieces are slightly under par for the usual Euro-style meeples and tiles, though. They're not *bad* quality, but compared with the nice hefty pieces from Z-Man's Carcassonne, for example, they're definitely a rung or two down.

Overall I can't think of a reason why this isn't 5 stars in my book.
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Neil
5.0 out of 5 stars With creative dynamics like seasonal freezing and thawing that allow you to split ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2015
A very well designed game. With creative dynamics like seasonal freezing and thawing that allow you to split your expedition into sea and sled teams is brilliant. Well balanced, a good amount of player interaction and tonnes of replay value.
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E. Johnson
4.0 out of 5 stars Missing English rules
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2017
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Though game box is covered in English writing, the game rules included within the box are in a few languages....none of them English. You can find them online (& print pretty easily), but if the game is not going to include an English rulebook it should probably specify that on the box and in the product description.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting !
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2019
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Adult Eurogamers will enjoy this one. Plays well with 2 , 3 or 4. The combination of progressing across the board as the ice moves in, while collecting items of interest along the way means there are many different strategies to try. If you know about the Franklin expedition the game is even better!
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Jordi G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Buen juego
Reviewed in Spain on December 3, 2018
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Juego temático sobre la expedición del Northwest Passage, interesante mecánica del sol y el hielo.
Buena calidad de componentes.
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Client d'Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars original
Reviewed in France on July 19, 2016
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Original en tout.

Mécanique, esthétisme, le fait de vivre et ressentir une aventure passée ( à l'image de Lewis et Clark...)

Encore un achat sans regret
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4.0 out of 5 stars Calidad Matagot
Reviewed in Spain on December 11, 2018
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Muy buen juego. Temática interesante y rejugabilisad absoluta. Los tableros individules demasiado finos y los tokens de exploración demasiado pequeños. De ahí que no le doy 5 estrellas
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Voldenuit
4.0 out of 5 stars Una piccola opera d'arte
Reviewed in Italy on October 22, 2016
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Il gioco è stupendo da un punto di vista grafico e per la qualità dei materiali. Tutto è ben curato, dalla scatola, al tabellone di gioco, alle pedine. L'ambientazione artica è resa in maniera ottimale, il che conferisce un'atmosfera di tutto rispetto, favorendo l'immersione nel gioco e l'identificazione con le vicende che si svolgono durante le partite.

Resta, tuttavia, un difetto, purtroppo comune a molti giochi da tavolo: una volta compresa la strategia vincente, cosa che in questo caso avviene piuttosto rapidamente, l'interesse cala rapidamente. Personalmente, mi capita di provare altre strade (letteralmente...), tanto per variare un po', consapevole delle difficoltà aggiuntive che questo comporta e del vantaggio he in questo modo si offre agli avversari...

Nonostante questo, si tratta di un titolo bello anche solo da possedere, per cui lo consiglio vivamente a tutti gli appassionati di giochi da tavolo.
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