Trailblazer (board game)

Trailblazer is a science fiction microgame game published by Metagaming Concepts in 1981 that simulates interstellar trading.

Critic Robert Kirk noted that the game has a noticeable flavor of the Nicholas van Rijn science fiction stories by Poul Anderson.

[1] In addition, players can send their ships into unexplored space to discover new systems that will provide new trading goods, or become a new market for sales, or both.

[1] In 1977, Metagaming Concepts pioneered the microgame, a small and relatively simple game packaged in a ziplock bag.

50, Robert C. Kirk found the game unexpectedly tedious, saying, "Considering the time involved and the effort required, I would expect to find in Trailblazer some of the panoramic sweep of Stellar Conquest.