2014Uwe Rosenberg
- Videos
- 99
- Creators
- 83
2 players15 - 30 minLight weight

2010Uwe Rosenberg
Mostly reviews. Merkator is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 16 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, and 3 recorded sessions.
From BoardGameGeek
Merkator is about the rise of Hamburg after the Thirty Years' War. You visit cities to collect goods or fulfill orders. The collected goods are added to the cities when a player visits a neighboring city. Fulfilling an order provides you with another better, but more complex order additional to the fulfilled order which you keep and can fulfill again, although the number of orders you can own is limited. Each order itself is worth a certain amount of points at the end of the game. Also you can exchange these points for special cards which provide additional goods in certain cities or more victory points if you fulfill certain conditions at game end. Depending on the city you want to enter you either receive a resource called "time" or you have to spend it. By paying a certain time-fee you are allowed to accompany another player on his trip to a town to fulfill your orders in this town (but not to collect goods). The game ends when a player receives the order with the highest value by fulfilling the order one level below. UPC 4015566030602
Merkator has 23 videos from 18 creators: 16 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides and 3 playthroughs. They date from 2010 to March 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Merkator: How to Play" by Just Play, which runs 16 min. For a quicker teach, "Merkator på 7 minutter (HD)" by Brettspill runs 7 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Drakkenstrike's Merkator Components Breakdown Video Review in HD" by Man vs Meeple. 12 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Merkator - Sell It or Save It with John LaRuffa" by No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa, one of 3 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Patchwork, A Feast for Odin, New York Zoo and Caverna: Cave vs Cave, also by Uwe Rosenberg.
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2014Uwe Rosenberg
2 players15 - 30 minLight weight
2016Uwe Rosenberg
1 - 4 players30 - 120 minHeavy weight
2020Uwe Rosenberg
1 - 5 players30 - 60 minMedium weight
2017Uwe Rosenberg
1 - 2 players20 - 40 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Merkator is about the rise of Hamburg after the Thirty Years' War. You visit cities to collect goods or fulfill orders. The collected goods are added to the cities when a player visits a neighboring city. Fulfilling an order provides you with another better, but more complex order additional to the fulfilled order which you keep and can fulfill again, although the number of orders you can own is limited. Each order itself is worth a certain amount of points at the end of the game. Also you can exchange these points for special cards which provide additional goods in certain cities or more victory points if you fulfill certain conditions at game end. Depending on the city you want to enter you either receive a resource called "time" or you have to spend it. By paying a certain time-fee you are allowed to accompany another player on his trip to a town to fulfill your orders in this town (but not to collect goods). The game ends when a player receives the order with the highest value by fulfilling the order one level below. UPC 4015566030602
Designer
Uwe Rosenberg
Artist
Klemens Franz
Publisher
Lookout Games
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