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Knarr

Media Title · Board & card games · 16 mentions · 1 subreddit · discussed in r/boardgames

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Pros

  • We really like it. The game has some cool set collection and objective fulfillment mechanisms. It plays fast but has what feels like a decent amount of strategic depth paired with interesting tactical decision making based on what is ava...
  • Hard disagree. There’s like 3 “parts” to the whole game, a turn is super quick, and a game takes 20-30 minutes. ... Knarr is best conceptualized as a heavier Splendor: a fast, simple engine-builder that’s almost more of a race than an en...
  • I love Knarr!
  • This was in heavy rotation for me for a while. It’s still a great “big” game in a small box to carry around. I’m a fan.
  • Aside from wishing the overall production was bigger and less fiddly, this has been one of my FAVORITE games I've been playing this year! 😀

Cons

  • Man, I hate this game. The board is ridiculously small, the pieces are tiny, and the whole game mechanism is such that once someone pulls ahead, it's impossible to catch up.
  • I enjoy it but it takes up way more table space than it ought to, I feel.
  • Cant agree, I played it twice and each time it fell flatter than the earth. It felt like at the beginning of getting momentum, it just ends and ends immediately so making a comeback can be down right impossible in some games. Its fiddlin...
  • The production is fine but I want to pull out my hair when somebody dares to breathe at the board and the ant sized cubes fly around on the income track
  • it's one of the least elegant games I've ever played, some parts feel literally bolted on. I don't really feel the theme in anything. It's fiddly af. Luck is a huge factor interactivity is minimal. It takes too long for what it is, even...

Sentiment

11 positive (69%) · 1 mixed (6%) · 4 negative (25%)

Trust + time weighted score: +43% · raw score 44%

What redditors said (10 of 16)

We really like it. The game has some cool set collection and objective fulfillment mechanisms. It plays fast but has what feels like a decent amount of strategic depth paired with interesting tactical decision making based on what is available to you. It is a ton of fun.
positive · u/j****e · r/boardgames · comment · Dec 2, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Man, I hate this game. The board is ridiculously small, the pieces are tiny, and the whole game mechanism is such that once someone pulls ahead, it's impossible to catch up.
negative · u/B****e · r/boardgames · comment · Nov 21, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I enjoy it but it takes up way more table space than it ought to, I feel.
mixed · u/P****1 · r/boardgames · comment · Nov 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Cant agree, I played it twice and each time it fell flatter than the earth. It felt like at the beginning of getting momentum, it just ends and ends immediately so making a comeback can be down right impossible in some games. Its fiddliness was a detractor for me as well.
negative · u/C****g · r/boardgames · comment · Nov 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Hard disagree. There’s like 3 “parts” to the whole game, a turn is super quick, and a game takes 20-30 minutes. ... Knarr is best conceptualized as a heavier Splendor: a fast, simple engine-builder that’s almost more of a race than an engine-builder. From that perspective, Knarr is a very successful design IMO.
positive · u/f****0 · r/boardgames · comment · Nov 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I love Knarr!
positive · u/b****x · r/boardgames · comment · Nov 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
This was in heavy rotation for me for a while. It’s still a great “big” game in a small box to carry around. I’m a fan.
positive · u/C**e · r/boardgames · comment · Nov 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
The production is fine but I want to pull out my hair when somebody dares to breathe at the board and the ant sized cubes fly around on the income track
negative · u/z****n · r/boardgames · comment · Nov 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
it's one of the least elegant games I've ever played, some parts feel literally bolted on. I don't really feel the theme in anything. It's fiddly af. Luck is a huge factor interactivity is minimal. It takes too long for what it is, even tho it speeds up a lot with repeated play. ... It's a 3/10 for me.
negative · u/D****H · r/boardgames · comment · Nov 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Aside from wishing the overall production was bigger and less fiddly, this has been one of my FAVORITE games I've been playing this year! 😀
positive · u/C****J · r/boardgames · Nov 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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