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Title:
Habitats
Description:
Majestic animals need dedicated habitats to thrive, and they’re depending on you, the enthusiastic new wildlife ranger, to figure out the puzzle.
Habitats is a tile-laying game where you drive your jeep around and choose the best animals for your wildlife preserve. Equally important is building enough tourist destinations, campgrounds, and watchtowers to ensure everything runs smoothly.
It’s not just a walk in the park though; your goals change every year and you’ll have to get what you need before other rangers snatch them up first!
In Habitats, each player builds a big wildlife park without cages or fences. The animals in your park need their natural habitats: grassland, bush, rocks or lakes. The zebra needs a big area of grass and some water adjacent, for example, while a bat needs rocks and bush and water, a hart needs bush and grass, and a crocodile needs mainly water. There is a snake, baboon, bee, elephant, otter, lizard, turtle, eagle, meerkat, scorpio, hog, catfish, rhino, etc., each with its own landscape requirements — 68 different animals in total.
Each player starts their individual park with an entrance tile, and they are each represented in the marketplace of animal tiles by a ceramic figure (or a wooden ranger meeple in some editions). On a turn, a player takes the tile to their left, right or front; moves their figure to the space just vacated; then draws a tile to place where their figure started the turn.
When adding an animal tile in your park, you add its main landscape — the base space for the animal — to your park, too. While placing this new animal, its own piece of landscape can help to fulfill the requirements of your other animals’ requirements, e.g., the water on a hippo tile fulfilling the adjacent otter’s need for water. Thus, fulfilling every animal’s desire for land becomes a more and more difficult task with each tile you add.
Aside from expanding your park with different landscape types, flora and animals, you can improve its profitability by building extra entrance roads, trek spots, and watchtowers.
Habitats lasts three seasons, with each season giving each player 6-9 new tiles for their parks. Whoever has best met the goal of the season receives bonus points, with a smaller number of points for second and third place. At the end of the game, each player scores for each tile in their park based on whether that tile’s requirements are satisfied. Whoever scores the most points wins!
NOTE: BoardGameTables edition contains both XL Expansion and Double Expansion and is entirely replacing the previous editions.
DUAL STRATEGY: Mulitple paths and strategies to victory. Habitats is a tile-laying board game that moves both quickly and slowly - which is reflective of the dual strategy gameplay. You have to navigate to the tile you want, then you need to place the tile in the preserve, in a spot that makes the most sense.
QUICK MOVES: 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.
STRATEGY: Think about A) Not just your next move in the public market, but where you’d like your all-terrain vehicle 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. Stunning wildlife tableaus at the end of the game. The market adds exciting interaction. 2-5 players, 40 minute playing time. Great for a family, friends or kids board game.
COMPONENTS:
Cardboard:
2 Year Tracks (5x24cm; 2 Players/4 Players; 3 Players/5 Players)
1 Score Board (dry-erase, double-sided; 16x42.5cm)
1 Turn Tracker board (9.5cm dia.)
5 Player Entrance tiles
15 Goal tiles
134 Preserve tiles
50 Score markers
Wood:
5 Player Jeeps (silk-screened, in player colors red, yellow, purple, gray, white)
1 Turn marker (orange disk with “H”)
1 Dry-Erase marker (black)
1 Cloth bag for Preserve tiles
Rules (4 p.).
Habitats is a tile-laying game where you drive your jeep around and choose the best animals for your wildlife preserve. Equally important is building enough tourist destinations, campgrounds, and watchtowers to ensure everything runs smoothly.
It’s not just a walk in the park though; your goals change every year and you’ll have to get what you need before other rangers snatch them up first!
In Habitats, each player builds a big wildlife park without cages or fences. The animals in your park need their natural habitats: grassland, bush, rocks or lakes. The zebra needs a big area of grass and some water adjacent, for example, while a bat needs rocks and bush and water, a hart needs bush and grass, and a crocodile needs mainly water. There is a snake, baboon, bee, elephant, otter, lizard, turtle, eagle, meerkat, scorpio, hog, catfish, rhino, etc., each with its own landscape requirements — 68 different animals in total.
Each player starts their individual park with an entrance tile, and they are each represented in the marketplace of animal tiles by a ceramic figure (or a wooden ranger meeple in some editions). On a turn, a player takes the tile to their left, right or front; moves their figure to the space just vacated; then draws a tile to place where their figure started the turn.
When adding an animal tile in your park, you add its main landscape — the base space for the animal — to your park, too. While placing this new animal, its own piece of landscape can help to fulfill the requirements of your other animals’ requirements, e.g., the water on a hippo tile fulfilling the adjacent otter’s need for water. Thus, fulfilling every animal’s desire for land becomes a more and more difficult task with each tile you add.
Aside from expanding your park with different landscape types, flora and animals, you can improve its profitability by building extra entrance roads, trek spots, and watchtowers.
Habitats lasts three seasons, with each season giving each player 6-9 new tiles for their parks. Whoever has best met the goal of the season receives bonus points, with a smaller number of points for second and third place. At the end of the game, each player scores for each tile in their park based on whether that tile’s requirements are satisfied. Whoever scores the most points wins!
NOTE: BoardGameTables edition contains both XL Expansion and Double Expansion and is entirely replacing the previous editions.
DUAL STRATEGY: Mulitple paths and strategies to victory. Habitats is a tile-laying board game that moves both quickly and slowly - which is reflective of the dual strategy gameplay. You have to navigate to the tile you want, then you need to place the tile in the preserve, in a spot that makes the most sense.
QUICK MOVES: 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.
STRATEGY: Think about A) Not just your next move in the public market, but where you’d like your all-terrain vehicle 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. Stunning wildlife tableaus at the end of the game. The market adds exciting interaction. 2-5 players, 40 minute playing time. Great for a family, friends or kids board game.
COMPONENTS:
Cardboard:
2 Year Tracks (5x24cm; 2 Players/4 Players; 3 Players/5 Players)
1 Score Board (dry-erase, double-sided; 16x42.5cm)
1 Turn Tracker board (9.5cm dia.)
5 Player Entrance tiles
15 Goal tiles
134 Preserve tiles
50 Score markers
Wood:
5 Player Jeeps (silk-screened, in player colors red, yellow, purple, gray, white)
1 Turn marker (orange disk with “H”)
1 Dry-Erase marker (black)
1 Cloth bag for Preserve tiles
Rules (4 p.).
Max Number of Players:
1-5
Barcode:
618149322930
Publisher:
Board Game Tables
Playing Time:
40
Year Published:
2022
Designer:
Corné van Moorsel
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Artist:
Daniel Profiri
Dominique Ramsey
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Suggested Ages:
11+
Date Added:
2022-12-04 16:59:49
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$41.50
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-10-15
Date Added:
2022-12-04 16:59:49
