Feuerland Spiele | Ark Nova | Board Game | Ages 14+ | 1-4 Players | 90-150 Minutes Playing Time

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On the association board, you will need to place one token for each university and for each partner zoo. It’s an incredible game in just about every dimension — it’s just not the accessible title that’s going to cross into the mainstream and expand the audience.

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Refreshingly, victory isn’t about who can line their pockets the fastest or force their zoo chock-full of the most fauna. As an alternative, if you play this card at level 5 (3 if the card is upgraded to the red side) you can “snap” a card from the 6 ones face up on the game board.Ark Nova is the most hyped new tabletop game since Wingspan burst onto the scene in the early months of 2019, an entire epoch ago, upending industry beliefs on what sort of games could cross over into the mainstream and find commercial success. You may even need to release some of your megafauna into the wild and sacrifice some of your existing appeal for the greater prize of ecological altruism.

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It’s more like a collection of bits from other games herded into their own enclosures and given all they need to live healthy lives. The first one allows you to play one sponsor card from your hand and add it to your zoo gaining its effect. And given the complexity of some of the game’s systems and the depth of strategy required, that feels just right to me. There are also some cards that can have small negative impacts on the other players, but these are easily removed if those sorts of shenanigans don’t float your boat.Unbox Ark Nova and you’ll likely be greeted by one thought: the artwork and components are stunning. The sponsor action lets you play blue sponsor cards, which generally offer an ongoing benefit and an endgame scoring opportunity, or take a break, advancing the coffee-cup token on the break track and taking income. The game includes 1 larger central gameboard, 1 association board, 8 double sided player mats, 255 playing cards, 129 wooden pieces, and more than 250 cardboard tokens and tiles. Each player has their own board with a blank zoo area of hex spaces on which they will place enclosures that they’ve purchased, covering one to five hexes each, and into which they can then place animals.