Ten years on from A Feast for Odin, one of the most sprawling, tile-stuffed euros ever printed, Uwe Rosenberg is sending the Vikings back out to sea. His studio Feuerland has opened a Gamefound page for The Danes, a standalone game set in the A Feast for Odin universe, and more than 6,500 people have followed it before the campaign has even gone live.
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Find events near youFor the uninitiated, A Feast for Odin is a heavyweight worker-placement and resource game where you spend a couple of hours farming, hunting, raiding and, famously, slotting oddly shaped tiles onto your player board to cover up penalty squares. It landed in 2016 to a rapturous reception, and Feuerland points out that it still ranks 27th on BoardGameGeek nearly a decade later. The Danes is designed by Rosenberg with Gernot Köpke, who has been posting development diaries as the game comes together. Cover and board art come from regular Feuerland collaborator Dennis Lohausen.
This is a standalone box rather than an expansion, so you will not need the original to play. Gamefound lists it as a competitive worker-placement and economy game for one to four players, aged 14 and up, which puts it squarely in Feast for Odin territory rather than a lighter spin-off. Rosenberg knows the house well: he co-founded Feuerland in 2012 alongside Frank Heeren, and the studio has published some of his meatiest designs.
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See how it worksThe campaign is still in its "coming soon" stage on Gamefound, gathering followers ahead of launch. If you backed the original or its Norwegians expansion, this is the one to keep an eye on. Fans of Rosenberg's other landmarks, Agricola, Caverna and Patchwork among them, will want to follow along too.
Sources: The Danes on Gamefound | Mr Boardgames | BoardGameGeek
