Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
In Jäger und Späher, each player leads a tribe in Stone Age times. Each turn, he decides which character card to play or whether to recall all of his traveling tribe members to the village.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Worker Placement
Commit limited workers to action spaces before opponents occupy them.
Read the full game description
In Jäger und Späher, each player leads a tribe in Stone Age times. Each turn, he decides which character card to play or whether to recall all of his traveling tribe members to the village. For his tribe to grow larger, not to mention survive, hunters must be sent out to collect meat and skins, and scouts must collect raw materials in order to produce valuable goods. The varied characters ensure an exciting and variable game.