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Northwest

Northwest

2025·Rick Hou

Videos
9
Creators
6

Mainly how-to-play and playthroughs. Northwest is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.

2 - 4 players
20 - 45 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

From BoardGameGeek

Northwest a 2-to-4-player tableau-building game with unique point salad scoring and shared movement mechanics. It can be taught in 3 minutes or less and has the right balance of luck and strategy to make it accessible to anyone. Each turn, the player drafts a memento cube from the main exploration board by moving the shared exploration token onto the cube and adding it to their tableau. The previously captured memento cube sets the next player's available move: Bees/Honey: next player must move in the L-Shape similar to the Knights from the Chess. Mushrooms: next player must move into a space in any of the 8 surrounding spaces. Ferns: next player must move into 1 of 4 orthogonal spaces. Maples: next player must move into 1 of 4 diagonal spaces. Bigfoot: next player may move into any space in the same column or row. In Northwest, your journey is represented by a 4x4 tableau in which you will track memento cubes drafted from the exploration board. Each memento cube scores victory points (VPs) in a unique way. The game ends when a player cannot make a legal move in the exploration board or all players have their personal tableau filled. The player with the most VP wins! Can you spot bees, mushrooms, foliage, or the ever-elusive Bigfoot? Your next adventure in the Northwest awaits. -description from the designer.

Northwest

Watch first

Learn to play

Northwest How to Play8:51

Northwest How to Play

Taylor's Side Table

Taylor's Side Table

Review

Northwest In-Depth Review: West In Show?18:45

Northwest In-Depth Review: West In Show?

Gaming With The Powers

Gaming With The Powers

Watch it played

Northwest Tutorial, Playthrough, and Review | with Expansion! | Bits & Biology1:28:00

Northwest Tutorial, Playthrough, and Review | with Expansion! | Bits & Biology

Bits & Biology

Bits & Biology

Which Northwest video should I watch?

Northwest has 9 videos from 6 creators: 1 review, 3 how-to-play guides, 2 playthroughs, 2 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2024 to July 2025.

To learn the rules, start with "Northwest How to Play" by Taylor's Side Table, which runs 9 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Northwest In-Depth Review: West In Show?" by Gaming With The Powers. To see it played, watch "Northwest Tutorial, Playthrough, and Review | with Expansion! | Bits & Biology" by Bits & Biology, one of 2 playthroughs.

If you like it, try Northwest: Campfire & Solo Expansion, also by Rick Hou, or Othello, Donuts and Bärenpark, which share several of its mechanics.

All videos

Northwest How to PlayHow to play8:51

Northwest How to Play

Taylor's Side Table

Taylor's Side Table

Northwest In-Depth Review: West In Show?Review18:45

Northwest In-Depth Review: West In Show?

Gaming With The Powers

Gaming With The Powers

Learn & Play | Northwest Board GameHow to play9:31

Learn & Play | Northwest Board Game

Gaming With The Powers

Gaming With The Powers

How to play NorthwestHow to play4:15

How to play Northwest

Brickhouse Games

Brickhouse Games

Northwest Tutorial, Playthrough, and Review | with Expansion! | Bits & BiologyPlaythrough1:28:00

Northwest Tutorial, Playthrough, and Review | with Expansion! | Bits & Biology

Bits & Biology

Bits & Biology

Northwest from Brickhouse Games1:46

Northwest from Brickhouse Games

Brickhouse Games

Brickhouse Games

Unboxing Northwest – Point Salad Scoring Meets Shared Movement | Brickhouse GamesUnboxing5:57

Unboxing Northwest – Point Salad Scoring Meets Shared Movement | Brickhouse Games

Gaming With The Powers

Gaming With The Powers

Searching for Bigfoot & Pinecones | Northwest PlaythroughPlaythrough33:32

Searching for Bigfoot & Pinecones | Northwest Playthrough

Miniature Market

Miniature Market

Northwest - UNBOXINGUnboxing3:32

Northwest - UNBOXING

Jaunty Boardgamer

Jaunty Boardgamer

Creators who cover this

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Gaming With The Powers
Gaming With The Powers
3 videos of this game
Brickhouse Games
Brickhouse Games
2 videos of this game
Bits & Biology
Bits & Biology
1 video of this game
Jaunty Boardgamer
Jaunty Boardgamer
1 video of this game
Miniature Market
Miniature Market
1 video of this game
Taylor's Side Table
Taylor's Side Table
1 video of this game

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Northwest: Campfire & Solo Expansion

2026·Rick Hou

Videos
1
Creators
1
Playthroughs

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1883·John W. Mollett, Lewis Waterman, Goro Hasegawa

Videos
26
Creators
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Donuts

2023·Bruno Cathala

Videos
22
Creators
22
Mostly reviews and how-to-play

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Bärenpark

2017·Phil Walker-Harding

Videos
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Creators
53
Mostly reviews

2 - 4 players·30 - 45 min·Light weight

About Northwest

From BoardGameGeek:

Northwest a 2-to-4-player tableau-building game with unique point salad scoring and shared movement mechanics. It can be taught in 3 minutes or less and has the right balance of luck and strategy to make it accessible to anyone. Each turn, the player drafts a memento cube from the main exploration board by moving the shared exploration token onto the cube and adding it to their tableau. The previously captured memento cube sets the next player's available move: Bees/Honey: next player must move in the L-Shape similar to the Knights from the Chess. Mushrooms: next player must move into a space in any of the 8 surrounding spaces. Ferns: next player must move into 1 of 4 orthogonal spaces. Maples: next player must move into 1 of 4 diagonal spaces. Bigfoot: next player may move into any space in the same column or row. In Northwest, your journey is represented by a 4x4 tableau in which you will track memento cubes drafted from the exploration board. Each memento cube scores victory points (VPs) in a unique way. The game ends when a player cannot make a legal move in the exploration board or all players have their personal tableau filled. The player with the most VP wins! Can you spot bees, mushrooms, foliage, or the ever-elusive Bigfoot? Your next adventure in the Northwest awaits. -description from the designer.

Designer

Rick Hou

Artist

Isaac Lefever

Publisher

Brickhouse Games

Categories

Abstract Strategy

Mechanics

Grid MovementPattern BuildingSet CollectionTile Placement
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