Entdecker is a German-style board game designed by Klaus Teuber and published in 1996 by Goldsieber in German. Although the game won 2nd prize in the Deutscher Spiele Preis, many gamers were disappointed with the game after the success of Teuber's previous game, Settlers of Catan. An updated version, Die Neuen Entdecker, was published in 2001 by Kosmos; this version was published in English by Mayfair Games under the title Entdecker - Exploring New Horizons. This version of the game won the Essen Feather for that year. German-style board games, also known as Euro games, designer games, family strategy games or hobby board games, are family games designed to appeal simultaneously to older children and adults. ... Klaus Teuber Klaus Teuber (born 1952) is a well-known German designer of board games. ... The Deutscher Spiele Preis (German for German Game Prize) is arguably the next most prestigious award for German-style games after the Spiel des Jahres. ... Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game invented by Klaus Teuber, first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. ... Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. ... Mayfair Games is a publisher of board and roleplaying games in the US and UK. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English, most notably the Settlers of Catan series licensed from Kosmos. ... The Essen Feather (German: Essener Feder) is an award for German-style board games, given at the Deutscher Spiele Preis ceremony at the October game fair in Essen, Germany. ...
Gameplay
The game begins with an empty grid. As players move their ship counters to explore the grid, they place tiles which determine the shape of islands. When islands are completed, they have the chance to explore those islands.
External links
Mayfair Games' Entdecker - Exploring New Horizons page
Entdecker is a game that integrates a number of different types of gameplay (exploration, majority control, tile-laying) in an interesting and cohesive way.
Entdecker is staid in some ways (namely the turn-by-turn unilateral increase of units), but does allow some possibilities for surprise, through the play of more expensive units, particularly as an island closes, and through either cutting off islands that another player had thought would be combined or else putting together islands that had looked separate.
Entdecker is one of the best exploration games I've played, and it's considerably enriched by the inclusion of good majority-control and tile-laying systems and by the impressive aesthetics of the game.
A computer implementation of the revised edition was also published by 2003 by Dartmoor Softworks.
It is considered to be one of the three "brothers", as Löwenherz was born from the same idea that brought forth Settlers of Catan and Entdecker.
Like the other two, Löwenherz is critically acclaimed, the original edition having won the Deutscher Spiele Preis and the revised edition having won the Schweizer Spielepreis while finishing fifth in the Deutscher Spiele Preis.
Feeds |
Contact