Welcome to a world where you create and develop your own natural habitat, filled with beautiful and diverse wilderness. In this game, you are the architect who expands your area with different terrain types and populates it with wildlife.

Gameplay and Structure

The game begins with you receiving three hexagonal habitat tiles, representing the five different habitat types in the game. During your turn, you select a new habitat tile paired with an animal token. This tile is placed next to your others, and the animal token is placed on a suitable habitat. (Each tile shows 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game, and you can place a maximum of one token per habitat.) Four tiles are displayed, each randomly paired with an animal token, so you must make the best of what’s available unless you have a nature token to spend to choose freely from every item.

Goal and Strategy

Ideally, you want to place habitat tiles to create matching terrain that reduces fragmentation and creates corridors for wildlife, primarily because you score points for the largest area of each habitat type at the end of the game, with a bonus if your group is larger than every other player’s. At the same time, you want to place animal tokens in a way that maximizes the points they provide, with wildlife goals randomly determined by one of four scoring cards for each type of animal. Perhaps hawks want to be separate from other hawks, while foxes want many different animals around them, and bears want to be in pairs. Can you make it possible?

Why This Game is a Must-Play

This game is a wonderful journey into creating and maintaining a balanced and vibrant ecosystem. With a unique blend of strategy, luck, and a loving portrayal of the wilderness, the game offers an exciting challenge for all nature lovers and strategy game enthusiasts. It’s time to unleash your inner conservationist and see your vision of a thriving habitat come to life.