Focused on Feld: Kathmandu Game Review

Hello and welcome to ‘Focused on Feld’. In this series of reviews, I am working my way through Stefan Feld’s entire catalogue. Over the years, I have hunted down and collected every title he has ever put out. Needless to say, I’m a fan of his work. I’m such a fan, in fact, that when I noticed there were no active Stefan Feld fan groups on Facebook, I created one of my own.

Today we’re going to talk about 2024’s Kathmandu, his 40th game.

Kathmandu drops the players into the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal with a single end goal: reach the capital city of Kathmandu by the end of the sixth day. The faster a player arrives, the better the reward will be. However, there are many stops the players can make along the way to score themselves some extra points. Tarry for too long and you’ll get caught up in the encroaching storm, which can slow you down and cost you a lot of points and resources. So you’ll want to move quickly (but not too quickly).

Kathmandu is a meandering race to the finish. Much like Tokaido, it isn’t about the destination, so much as it is about the journey.

Over the course of six rounds, players will be rolling dice and then using…

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