Upstream
Designer: Victor Samitier | Artist: Sergi Marcet
UPSTREAM
“Starting with the player who most recently ate salmon” is not something you read very often in a game. Neither, for that matter, is ‘salmons’, which is not a real word but occurs quite a lot in the Upstream rulebook. It’s a Spanish game in which you’re a shoal of eight North American salmon swimming upriver to spawn, avoiding hazards like bears, eagles and blue herons, which do not actually eat adult salmon. It’s not a good start.