Rewild South America (Spanish)

Rewild: South America is a unique, medium-weight, card-based, engine-building board game for nature and wildlife enthusiasts, which can be enjoyed in 45-60 minutes.

Rewild's theme focuses on the fauna and flora of the South American ecoregions of the Caatinga, Gran Chaco, Cerrado, Pantanal, Amazon rainforest, and Atlantic Forest. These six ecoregions and all their inhabitants exhibit diverse interrelationships and dependencies. One of the main concerns of the game's author, Bruno Liguori Sia, who lives in Brazil, was to represent and convey this complex network in a game.

As for the game mechanics, Rewild has a simple foundation. On their turn, each player plays a card and chooses one of the two actions depicted. After performing this action, the player can attract the animals and plants shown to their ecosystem. As soon as a player has 8 (or 9) face-up animal cards in front of them, the end of the game is triggered.

However, don't be fooled by this seemingly simple premise, as each game of Rewild presents countless decisions and plays differently every time due to the huge variety of cards. Questions players face include:

How do I generate enough resources (water, minerals, seeds) to expand my ecosystem? Where do I place each biome so that its effects optimally promote the expansion of my ecosystem? Do I focus on one biome or several? Would it make sense to upgrade my existing biomes?

When do I retrieve all my action cards to have more options and resources available again? Do I do this once, twice, or even three times, and what are my opponents planning? Will I have enough time to play all my cards in time for them to count toward the effects of my animal cards?

Which animal and plant cards should I introduce into my ecosystem to create an optimally interconnected ecosystem that generates the most victory points? Are there any cards with immediate effects that are worth re-activating? Should I keep an animal species until the end, or generate points immediately by making it a predator's target?

The player who best answers and masters all these questions in a game of Rewild will receive the most victory points and win the game.