Moving Wild is a drafting game of animals and habitats.
Can you keep your unfriendly animals apart?
Some animals have begun their migration, going around and around in search of a new place to live. Hippos that love both water and land. Huge elephants. And bears that just want to be left alone. “Uhhhh,” you can’t help but growl as the cards go around. You want to secure the perfect spot, but should you choose a location or an animal first?
Moving Wild Game Overview
Quick Rules Summary
Players have a hand of cards containing habitats, animals and modifiers. Players pick one and pass the rest to their left in the usual draft form.
Habitats go into play, modifiers attach to habitats and once attached can not be moved. Animals can be put aside for now.
After all cards are drafted, animals are placed into habitats, Animals have a terrain requirement and also some are unfriendly and can only be in a habitat with their own type.
Players then score for animals in habitats that all score in a unique way. Some are flat points, some have a set collection element, others depend on the terrain they have access to etc.
Players lose points for animals that don’t fit in habitats and habitats with empty spaces.
How do you win?
These cards stay in play all game. Two more rounds of drafting and scoring and the player with the most points wins.
Main Mechanisms
Drafting! Also a spot of set collection and tableau building.
Theme
Animals in a national park. Drafting habits gives more of a feeling that you’re terraforming the thing!
Setup
Shuffle and deal, all good.
Components & Artwork
Small cards as is the Oink games way. The art is very cute, especially the penguins.
Ease of Teaching
It’s easy to teach, just have a new player sit between experienced players so they can ask about the cards in hand from the player that passed them to them.
Similar Games
I would go with a nice, simple drafting game like Sushi Go Party.
Moving Wild Review
Positives
Nice simple gameplay.
Very cute artwork, the animals are adorable.
Making everything fit and work together is a nice puzzle to solve.
Negatives
I don’t like drafting games where the single card you’re stuck with at the end you have to play. It removes the choice.
<Not the game’s fault obviously but I was taught the game wrong!>
Summary
A fun little drafting game a lot of people will add to their regular game rotation.
Jesta ThaRogue