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Build a beautiful nature preserve where visitors delight and animals thrive!
In Habitats, you'll drive your jeep around the board to pick up tiles for your preserve. Place them carefully to score.
$39
Habitats - $39
Can you find your strategy?
Welcome to the jungle! Habitats is a tile-laying game. Drive your jeep around and choose the best animals for your wildlife preserve. A successful preservation is more than just a working habitat. You'll also have to build tourist destinations, campgrounds, and watchtowers!
Your goals change every year and you’ll have to get what you need before other rangers snatch them up first!
How To Play
Take a Preserve Tile
You can only grab a tile directly in front of or to the sides of your jeep.
Drive Your Jeep
Move into the newly-empty space, pointing the jeep away from the previous space.
Draw A Preserve Tile
Grab one from the beautiful drawstring bag, placing it into the old spot.
Place The Tile And Score
Place in spaces adjacent to your existing tiles. Score points for accomplishing goals on your tiles and on the Year Track!
Strategy
Keep moving forward
Habitats is a game that moves both quickly and slowly - which is reflective of the dual strategy gameplay. First, you have to navigate to the tile you want. Second, you need to place the tile in the preserve, in a spot that makes the most sense.
It moves quick in the sense that other players can get the tiles you want before you can get them, but more slowly in the sense that in-between the public market moves, you can analyze both your place in the market as well as the layout of your preserve.
When you start the game, think about A) Not just your next move in the public market, but where you'd like your jeep to be 3 or 4 turns in advance. Sometimes a short sacrifice will position you for better tiles. B) How you can use point multipliers from watchtowers and photo spots to extend a lead or recover deficits.
What's In the Box?
Nature Awaits
Your wildlife ranger starter kit:
- A15 Goal Tiles
- B2 Year Tracks
- C1 Score Board
- D5 Player Entrance Tiles
- E1 Dry Erase Marker
- F5 Player Jeeps
- G1 Turn Tracker
- H1 Turn Marker
- I1 Tile Bag
- J50 Score Markers
- K134 Preserve Tiles (76 Animals, 20 Flowers, 12 Gates, 8 Tourists, 8 Watchtowers, 4 Campsites)
The Upgrade
Stunning wood animeeples
People like great meeples. And a lot of people like a lot of meeples. Therefore, it seemed incredibly obvious to us to produce 92 amazing meeples for Habitats.
You'll use them to mark tiles that have achieved their scoring condition (instead of cardboard chips with a VP/ribbon design). When you see them in your preserve, you'll be in awe of the stunning 3D display!
Preserve Tiles
You'll need many types of tiles to be successful!
Drawstring Bag
Because it's more fun than drawing from the box lid!
What You're Saying About Habitats
The brains behind the game
Creators
Corne van Moorsel
Game Designer
Corné is a game designer in Maastricht, Netherlands specializing in mainly deep games packed in a short amount of time with short rules, attractive for both heavy gamers and casual players.
Dominique Ramsey
Illustration
Dominique is an Illustrator from North Carolina who loves all things animal and nature. She strives for uniqueness using bright colors, cultural patterns, and shapes to catch the viewer’s eye. Her biggest inspirations come from folk art, textiles, and spiritualism of many cultures from around the world.
Danie Profiri
Cover Illustration
Whenever he's not illustrating board games, he's drawing photorealistic portraits and working on interior design projects.
Anca Gavril
Graphic Design
She has a poster featured in the Board Game Geek Artist series. Her husband and children are always involved in the projects, from mandatory play testing and prototyping, to artistic suggestions.
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Habitats
10.8" x 6.8" x 2.75"
3 lb. 1 oz.
GME-HB
618149322930
$40
Habitats: Wooden Animals Upgrade