Nauticus heard -so much was said in advance - the most complex games in the cosmos program. Due to some rule details the Einstigshürde is certainly comparable to Pillars of the Earth or World Without End, perhaps is even higher (So on Puerto Rico- level). Nauticus This is aimed clearly at "advanced" adults and very experienced match families with older children. Playful it comes to shipbuilding; The players try to build ships and thus to ship goods. For all steps go there VPs while sword point developments are quite possible: one builds a lot of small boats and tries to score as possible on those of other building big pots, although tidy points, but first have to be completed, which takes a long time and requires a lot of resources. Central is a kind of wheel, is determined by for each round, how much money and workers need to be invested for a specific action, and what the player who selects the action to all gets a bonus. Since the wheel is tinkered randomly each game plays differently. The downside of this is that this mechanism is in principle abstractly - and that also applies to the game. Whether one is now building ships or building plays no role in the issue is (unlike the orgenannten "World Without End") is not immersed. In general, the game is full of clever ideas - so there is often to win bonus items, but (unlike Purchased) gemeinerweise can not immediately be used, but an additional action need "unlocked" to be. Since the bonus promotions are very important - resources are scarce - there is plenty of potential for brooding and Optimize. That one does well rather than next to one another. Although provided by the wheel for interaction (Only one player is allowed per round a certain bonus tap), but in practice every potters themselves.
Nauticus is a very solid game that optimizers and hobbyists offers quite room and gameplay. Who has 50 similar games in the cupboard, can probably do without very good at Nauticus. Who does not like mulling anyway. But who likes austüftelt the correct order and mitfiebert whether he gets screwed together his ship in time, the Nauticus is quite to heart.
One disadvantage is not to be overlooked: The game is a battle of material. Before and after each game at least 10-15 minutes up and dismantling periods must be estimated in order to sort the various places platelets properly.