Renegade Game Studios 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Raiders of The North Sea - Conquest, 26 x 19 inches, Features Art from The Critically Acclaimed Board Game, Raiders of The North Sea, Age 10 & Up

This is a different and fun worker placement game for 2-4 players. Game play takes about 90 minutes. My family thoroughly enjoys this game! The viking theme is extra fun - it is especially good if players are about the same ability as far as game playing skills go. I highly recommend this game. Please mark if you find my review helpful. Thank you so much!

Fun and strategic. Quick to pick up once you learn the iconography.

Easy to teach and fun every time I replay it

Very good game. Worker placement with collection to pay for viking raids. Played it today with one other person it was really great. I would like to play it again with more players and see how it works. I have already kickstarted the 2 expansions for this game.

We enjoy playing it

Game itself is great. But box was damaged when delivered to me. Some knife scratches on it.

We REALLY enjoy this game! We first played it at a friends house and loved it so much that we bought our own copy. It’s pretty quick to learn and is super fun. I love how high quality the materials are; actual wooden pieces and my favorite part are the “silver coins” that are actual metal and are very detailed. It makes it even more fun that they seem legit. :)

Desde que lo jugué se volvió instantáneamente en mi juego preferido. Es muy inmersivo e intenso, la temática va perfecta y la mecánica de juego es muy entretenida. Muy sencillo de aprender, he jugado con personas que no juegan juegos de mesa y les encantó y se lo compraron. En estos momentos es mi juego preferido sin lugar a dudas. Since I played it, it instantly became my favorite game. It is very immersive and intense, the theme is perfect and the gameplay is very entertaining. Very easy to learn, I played with people who do not play board games and they loved it and they bought it. In these moments is my favorite game without a doubt.

Granted, this is a good game in the sense that it’s easy to learn and teach and is about as simple a euro-style, worker placement game as you’re going to get... ...and admittedly it’s fun... BUT! It suffers from some major issues. I’m going to have to compare this to Lords of Waterdeep which, as of this writing, is actually $33 and this is $35. Even if LoWD was selling for $40 or $45 I’d say go with that LONG before you get this (unless this is going for $25 or so). So, you’ve watched videos on YouTube on how to play and read other reviews here that explain it. But how is it, really? The experience that is. Pros - as stated previously, it’s VERY easy to learn and teach. It almost a “filler” kind of game to me but with the length of the game sort of over shooting that mark. But yeah, it’s that simple. It’s a beautiful game, great artwork and production quality (the coins are metal!). While simple, it does have some strategy to it. Cons - it felt like it was missing two things to me, choice and combat. The village choices didn’t seem “chunky” enough and the selection is limited. LoWD KILLS this game in that respect allowing players to add more options to the board during play. Also, when it came to “raiding” I felt I was doing it wrong the first time because it was so anticlimactic. Have the Viking and the provisions required? Done. You “raided”. Collect your loot. It felt like there should have been SOMEthing to denote a battle of some kind. Sure your Vikings have strength values, sure your roll upnto two red dice...but these are just to determine how many victory points you’re going to get for the raid. Vikings have strength but don’t use it in actual battle?? Hmmm. This one really is a no brainer - MUCH better worker placement games out there and for the same price! This one has its little elements (place a worker, remove a worker) but it’s boring compared to a game like Lords of Waterdeep. UPDATE! So, we’ve pulled this game out now a few times since my original review and I’ve upgraded it to 3 stars instead of 2. Since my original post, many expansions have become available for this base game that have done an effective job of making it “better”. However, you’ll need to invest in those expansions to get there, obviously. It’s also a legitimate turnoff for many people who don’t want to have to buy expansions to make an “ok” game better. They want something good -great right out of the box! I don’t blame them! Plenty of those games out there. But, I did want to say the game has grown over time and coincidentally, with the numerous expansions to choose from, you can grow with it. In essence, you can scale the game to your liking by adding an expansion to it.

This game is so fun. It was a little confusing when we started, but after 1 play through it all made sense and its become one of our favorite games.