2021 · Exploration

Stroganov

Players take the roles of 16th-century Russian expeditions pushing east across Siberia to acquire furs, settlements, and resources. Play unfolds over four yearly cycles (spring, summer, autumn, then winter return), and each year players advance across a map, optionally spending horses to move farther. After moving, players perform a basic action (for example trading, collecting furs, or gaining coins) and may take an advanced action such as visiting villages, placing yurts, claiming a Tsar’s wish card, building hunting lodges, or buying landscape fields. Exploration, resource management, and tableau-building generate victory points, and scoring at the end of four years determines the winner.

groupPlayers

1–4 best 3

schedulePlaying time

90 min

cakeAge

12+

psychologyComplexity

3.3 / 5