Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
30 min
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Description
Combative game of hidden information and bluffing where leaders of raiding parties battle for control of outposts with eight unique Norse Gods
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Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- A favorite small box strategy game
- Good for players who like to outsmart opponents
- Full of intrigue
- Plays in 30 minutes or less
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- raiding
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players compete to win outposts by having the most strength in a particular color.
- Card deployment — Players deploy cards as a raiding party from their hand.
- hand management — Players select three cards from their hand to play face down, with options to reinforce or add glory tokens.
- Hand refill — Passing allows players to take muster groups to get more cards for the next round.
- set collection — Players attempt to capture outposts by playing cards with strength.
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you're looking for a small box strategy game, Red North is one of my favorite ones of the year.
- I love that this game is full of intrigue.
- This is a great little strategy game that plays in 30 minutes or less.
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Video EgR1lXQpbtc
Rules Teach at 0:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Small box card game that takes about 30 minutes to play
- Filler zone length but still strategic and decision-rich
- Theming with raiding and outpost construction is exciting
- Interactive and intertwined card interactions between players
- Multiple viable strategies and good replayability with different counts
- Yals add dynamic shifts in game state
- Travel-friendly design; small box with compactable elements
Cons
- Beginning strategy is not immediately apparent and becomes clearer with play
- Not strictly compact in physical size; some ambiguity around box compactness
Thematic elements
- Raid-based conquest with outposts; strategic card play
- Viking-themed raiding and outpost control
- card-driven, with god powers and muster groups
Comparison games
- Elaine Battlers
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deployment (raiding party formation) — Each round, players simultaneously choose three cards from their hand and place them face down to form the raiding party; positions cannot be changed in the next phase unless actions allow.
- inspire — Place one glory token on a face up raider or hero card in your party. Each token adds one raid point to the card.
- Invoke (god cards) — In the third round, you may use the power of the god card by discarding the god card; god cards provide various powers and are chosen as part of muster groups when you pass.
- Outposts and color control — Outposts provide scoring/first-player/tiebreaker effects; colors inform specific end-of-round/round-end scoring rules.
- Passing / Muster groups — After all players have finished actions, you pass by taking a muster group into your hand; passing may involve choosing God cards or other cards.
- promote — You can only take this action if you control the blue outpost and have the champion token; you place a champion token on a face up card you have, which adds plus two raid points to each adjacent raider or hero card.
- reinforce — Turn one face-down card face up and then add one card from your hand to either end of your party.
- Scoring / Raid points — Raid points are calculated for each outpost; yals boost the raid points of adjacent cards and glory tokens add one point per token on the card.
- withdraw — Return any face-up card from your raiding party to your hand; if this creates a gap, you slide the cards together to close the gap.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Red North is a two to four player game designed by James Dickinson and published by Mighty Boards.
- The yals can switch your game entirely, especially if positioned correctly.
- It's a small box card game that takes about 30 minutes to play.
- You can win by one point.
- The cards you collect, the cards you collect from the middle when you pass, the god powers that you have, everything intertwines.
- All in all, it is a very interactive game between you and other players.
- I think Red North is a perfect example of a game you should check out.
- The yals are fun.
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Grant's GameRex Top 10 List at 20:35 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Strong tension and bluffing dynamics
- Smart decision-making under pressure
Cons
- Can be fiddly for new players
Thematic elements
- Bluffing and outpost ownership for points
- Outpost-themed conflict with suit-based control
- Tense, strategic, competitive
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Outposts grant future abilities and points; muster groups influence card influx.
- area_control / outposts — Outposts grant future abilities and points; muster groups influence card influx.
- Betting and bluffing — Decide when to pass and how to adapt strategy based on hidden information.
- bluffing / tension — Decide when to pass and how to adapt strategy based on hidden information.
- flip_and_play / face-down cards — Play cards face down with values and suits, then flip to reveal.
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Quotes (from this video)
- these are essentially all the smallbox games I really enjoyed this year that are not card games.
- these are, you know, they might be dice games. They might be uh dexterity games.
- Tricky Kids is a unique and interesting trick taking card game where you set the number on the cards you are playing.
- we are together trying to pick up this drone and moving it and then oh everything topples and everybody laughs
- There is no right or wrong answer.
- This is probably the most divisive game on this list.
- the components are coasters
- the end of the game when the deck runs out creates tension
- Neco Syndicate is a really thinky smallbox game.
- My Favorite Things is a great party game, smallbox game.
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