Cartaventura is a narrative card game where players build an adventure using cards that can offer them different choices during play. Map cards are placed in the centre of the table. Around these map cards, players place action cards, with them consulting one another to make the best choice to make from those available: draw a card, turn over a card, discard, etc. Urgent cards, which should be read entirely before doing anything else, can alter the game in an instant. Object cards are put in front of players and can be useful throughout the game. The game comes with a tutorial to accompany the first game, and its simple and original playing system allows you to explore the scenario several times before discovering all of the game's secrets.

In Cartaventura: Vinland, you head off to the land of the Vikings in the footsteps of explorer Erik The Red. Will you be able to prove your father's innocence? Will you take to the seas towards the lands in the west or command your colony in Greenland? Will you stay faithful to your Norse gods?