Habitats Review

"Board gamers tend to love tactility-the feel of a hand of cards, the weight of a good miniature, the clickity-clack of a big stack of poker chips. Myself I like a game where you control exactly one piece. Dungeon crawlers and worker placement games are fine and all, but give me a game where I shuffle a single thing around a map, and I'm immediately on board."

"As might be expected, most of the tiles are Animals, which have a single type (color) of habitat they inhabit, as well as a set of habitats they must be adjacent to in order to score, and the point value for satisfying those conditions. Other tile types include Watchtowers, Flowers, Tourists, Gates, and Camps, which all have unique scoring conditions based on the quantity and adjacency of tiles within your preserve."

Habitats is a tile-laying game for 1–5 players that takes about 30–60 minutes and favors multiplayer play. Each player controls a jeep and on a turn takes a tile from the marketplace located in front of or to the side of their jeep, rotates and moves the jeep into the emptied space, refills the market from the bag, and places the chosen tile orthogonally adjacent in their personal preserve. Most tiles are Animals with habitat types and adjacency-based scoring. Other tiles include Watchtowers, Flowers, Tourists, Gates, and Camps with unique scoring. The game contains three rounds and scores two randomly chosen conditions each round.

Read at Board Game Quest