Greenland

Greenland is a tableau-building game for one or more players, set among four tribes inhabiting Greenland from the 11th to the 15th centuries: the Tunit (Player Green), Norse (Player Red), Sea Sámi (Player Blue) and Thule (Player Yellow). You lead a tribe, gathering food, resources and technology to grow its population and support children, elders and livestock. You can also wipe out competing species or gather resources to score victory points, while managing changing weather and dwindling natural resources.

You send your population to hunt native species in Greenland and explore the North American coastlands, though some hunters may not return. You can raid other tribes for wives or animals, negotiate deals to protect your wives, and choose between monotheism and polytheism. The game lasts 10 turns, each representing a generation, and the player with the most points wins. Final scoring depends on your tribe’s theistic worldview: polytheism scores successful hunts, while monotheism scores resource gathering.

Game modes

You can play solo against AI, locally with others or online against other players. The digital version also includes an introductory tutorial to help you learn the game, whether you play the app or the physical board game.

Six phases per turn

Players complete each phase in turn order before moving on to the next:

• Resolve events: Reveal an Event Card, which may bring elder deaths, animal migrations, feuds or global cooling. If a trade ship arrives, players auction for its wares.
• Assign hunters: Send hunters to hunting grounds, resource gathering, colonizing the New World, raiding other tribes for wives or animals, or becoming elders.
• Negotiate: Bribe other players to withdraw hunters peacefully, including by marrying them to your daughters. If you have a War Chief Elder, you can use hunters to attack others on the same card. The New World becomes hostile if it has too many colonists.
• Resolve hunting: Each hunter provides a die roll, modified by technologies and marriage advantages. Success may gain hunters, resources, hand cards, wives or technologies. Some animals can confuse predator and prey, and hunters may not return. Some successes let you take cards from the central play area, subject to your hand limit.
• Maintain livestock: Pay to keep your domesticated animals.
• Take elder actions: Elders can take actions such as invention, domestication, proselytization and witch-burning. If you have no elders, you can convert to monotheism.