Nature: Big Box Edition

Nature is a strategy game evolved from the award-winning blockbuster Evolution. Redesigned to be more streamlined, forgiving, and deeper, with seamless expandability at its core. The innovation is a modular system that allows players to create and explore a unique ecosystem each time they play.

The goal of Nature is to adapt your species in an ever-changing ecosystem where food is scarce and predators lurk. You receive points for growing and sustaining a flourishing population. To grow your population, your species must adapt to the changing environment amidst two threats: starvation and predation.

Adapt to the Changing Environment
Grow thriving populations in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce and predators lurk. Evolve Tusks to find food, Fast to outrun predators, or Claws for hunting.

Create a Unique Ecosystem Each Time You Play
Add the Jurassic module for colossal dinosaurs, or the Arctic Tundra module for a bitter ecosystem on the edge of the habitable world. At launch (August 2025), you’ll be able to combine 5 modules and 2 mini-modules to experience 96 different ecosystems.

A game of Nature takes 4 rounds, or 5 when you play with modules. Each round, players draw a hand of cards and gain a new species, bringing new life and opportunity into the ecosystem. Rounds have 2 main phases: Adapting and Feeding. 

During the Adapting Phase, you can discard a card to increase your species’ body size or population, or you can play a card as a trait to change its behavior. Traits help your species stay safe and find food. Adapt species with traits like Fast to evade predators, Opportunistic to take advantage of a food rich environment, or Clawed to improve a predator’s ability to hunt other species.

During the Feeding Phase, all species compete for a limited amount of food in the ecosystem. A species may forage for plant food at the watering hole, or evolve into a predator and hunt other species to eat. Feeding species’ population is key to your success, and you’ll need to react to the changing environment to gain the food they need.

Despite your best efforts, your species might lose a few population through starvation, or even become extinct. This is the way of the natural world! However, in Nature, the population, body size, and traits lost are returned to you, so you can create a stronger species in the next round.

—description from the publisher

BIG BOX:
Nature can be expanded with five game-changing modules: Flight, Jurassic, Natural Disasters, Arctic Tundra and Amazon Rainforest.  

Modules are small expansions that can be combined to dramatically change the gameplay. Flight, Jurassic, Arctic Tundra, and Amazon Rainforest have trait cards that provide new ways to adapt your species, while Natural Disasters comes with an event deck that creates scenarios that affect all players. 

Adding module(s) to Nature is easy. Place the module deck(s) next to the Nature deck. When a player needs to draw cards, they can draw from any of the available decks. 

Expand the Nature ecosystem by choosing the module that suits your playstyle. Add one module at a time, or mix and match modules to create over 20 different ecosystems with endless replayability.

All KS pledges received additional promo packs for the base game and each module, which will be sold separately at a later date.

NorthStar will support the Nature game system with 1 - 2 new modules each year for the next decade. The Climate module and the Disease module are currently in development. Once they are released, there will be over 100 unique ecosystems to explore.

BIG BOX COMPONENTS:

NATURE BASE GAME:
Cardboard:
1 Watering Hole (14x14.5cm)
30 Size Dials (44mm dia. With white plastic spindles, double-sided green Forager/red Hunter, 15x each in a green tuck box)
136 Population tokens (21mm dia.; double-sided Alive/Dead)
150 Plant Food tokens (18mm dia.)
150 Meat Food tokens (18mm dia.)
8 Plant Food 10x tokens (36mm dia.)
8 Meat Food 10x tokens (36mm dia.)

Cardstock:
126 standard cards (63x88mm):
• 99 Nature cards (brown back with leopard; 11x each of 8 Traits, plus 1 Promo Trait from KS):
•• Clawed
•• Fast
•• Horned
•• Opportunistic
•• Plated
•• Scavenging
•• Social
•• Tusked
•• Avid Forager (Promo)

10 Hunter cards (identical, with leopard)
10 Alternate Art Hunter card KS promos (unique leopard art on each card)

6 Solo cards (black & white backs; leaf icon bottom center; Evader, Glutton, Predator, Propagator, Scamp, Scavenger)

12 large Player Aid cards (79x119mm, 6x double-sided Round Order/Icon Guide, plus 6x double-sided Trait Card Guide)

4 Player screens (retail edition, replaced by 6 player 9x9cm cloth bags in the Big Box, each with unique art)

Wood:
Snow Leopard first player marker (white with black printing; 99x29x10mm)

Rulebook (24 p.).
Nature Reference Guide (8 p.).

FLIGHT MODULE:
Cardboard:
1 Faraway Place (75x75mm)
24 Nests (64mm dia.)

Cardstock:
53 standard cards (63x88mm):
• 48 Flight cards (blue backs with bird; 8x each of 5 Traits, plus 1 KS promo trait):
•• Camouflaged
•• Flicking
•• Good Eyesight
•• Nesting
•• Seed Dispersal
•• Brood Parasite (promo)

• 5 Solo Flight cards (bird icon bottom center): 1 Rules card, Crow, Finch, Hawk, Heron)

6 large Flight Player Aid cards (79x119mm, double-sided Additional Rules/Trait Guide)

Rulebook (12 p.).

JURASSIC MODULE:
Cardboard:
24 Jurassic Size disks (55mm dia., double-sided green Forager/red Hunter, with white plastic spindle; 12x each brown tuckbox)

Cardstock:
53 standard cards (63x88mm):
• 48 Jurassic Trait cards (red with Apex Predator on back, 8x each of 5 Traits, plus 1 KS promo Trait):
•• Apex Predator
•• Clever Predator
•• Elusive
•• Pack Hunting
•• Thagomizer
•• Spiked Osteoderm (promo)

• 5 Solo cards (Dino head icon bottom center; 1 Rules card, Anky, Mabel, Penny, Raptorex)

6 large Jurassic Player Aid cards (double-sided)

Wood:
1 Thagomizer die (30mm 12-sided brown die with gold numerals 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7)

Rulebook (8 p.).

ARCTIC TUNDRA MODULE:
Cardboard:
1 Arctic Tundra Watering Hole (14.5x14cm)

Cardstock:
53 standard cards (63x88mm):
• 48 Arctic Tundra Trait cards (purple backs with wolf; 8x each of 5 Traits, plus 1 promo Trait):
•• Fat Tissue
•• Hibernating
•• Migratory Grazing
•• Migratory Predator
•• Underground Den
•• White Fur (promo)

• 5 Solo cards (wolf icon bottom center; 1 Rules card, Mostos, Pygo, Ursus, Vulpes)

6 large Arctic Tundra Player Aide cards (79x119mm, double-sided)

Wood:
1 Cold Die (30mm 12-sided white with blue numerals 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Rulebook (12 p.).

AMAZON RAINFOREST MODULE:
Cardboard:
1 Amazon Rainforest Watering Hole (14.5x14cm)
46 Fruit tokens (18mm Bananas)
22 Poison Resistance tokens (18mm Frogs)

Cardstock:
53 standard cards (63x88mm):
• 48 Amazon Rainforest Trait cards (green backs with frog; 8x each of 5 Traits, plus 1 KS promo Trait):
•• Climbing
•• Fertile
•• Omnivorous
•• Poisonous
•• Powerful Jaws
•• Frugivorous (promo)

• 5 Solo cards (frog icon bottom center, 1 Rules card, Amy, Bagheera, Loris, Onca)

6 large Amazon Rainforest Player Aid cards (79x119mm, double-sided)

Rulebook (12 p.).

NATURAL DISASTERS MODULE:
Cardboard:
10 Comet tokens

Cardstock;

42 Disaster cards (119x79mm):
• 4 Epidemic cards
• 3 Flooding cards
• 2 Gigantic Meteor cards
• 3 Hurricane Season cards
• 3 Ice Age cards
• 4 Lightning Storm cards
• 8 Radioactive Meteor Shower cards
• 6 Rebirth cards
• 2 Tsunami cards
• 2 Volcano cards
• 3 Wildfire cards
• 2 Earthquake cards (promo)

5 Disaster Solo cards (63x88mm; Comet icon bottom center; Felis, Markhor, Melissa, Perrisos, Takin)

Rulebook (12 p.).

DELUXE BIG BOX includes:
Wood:

5 Promo Predators (about 49x20x8mm with black printing; brown bear, gray wolf, orange tiger, green alligator, blue snake)

5 promo Dinosaur Predators (red T. rex, yellow velociraptor, turquoise finback, purple pterodactyl, peach bird)

Wooden tokens

1-6

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60

2025

10+

Nature

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~$326.14

2026-02-10

2025-07-04 14:52:19