You will embark on a journey armed with a map, traveling through picturesque places, striving to find as many different plants as possible and observe animal behavior. And how can one not enjoy the incredible views around! Who will be able to uncover all the natural secrets and earn the title of an experienced explorer? Forward, to explore the wilderness! And in the evening, when you feel a pleasant fatigue in your legs from miles of walking, light a big warm fire and share your impressions of the day, trying to be the first to tell everyone about your discoveries!
How to play?
On your turn, by placing one of your tokens, a participant performs one of two actions: takes a card and optionally plays it or another card from their hand, or performs a special action that can lead the player toward achieving their goal.
There are several types of cards in the game: soil cards depicting ecosystems that indicate the habitat of plants or animals, observation cards symbolizing players' travel notes, landscape cards showing territories explored by travelers, as well as find cards depicting various items collected during the expedition.
Upon meeting certain conditions, observation and soil cards are played in the glade, while landscape and find cards are played in the surroundings.
By placing action tokens on the campfire board, players perform special actions: changing cards on the game board, laying down roads in the surroundings, choosing one of three cards from the deck, or playing cards from their hand. Participants may also achieve their goals by performing special actions and forming pairs from the cards available in the glade. All the above moves of the travelers earn them coveted victory points.
After all players have used their action tokens, the round ends. Players collect their tokens back and are ready to set off to explore the territories again.
In the middle of the game, after the fourth round, the cards from the game board are discarded, the decks are swapped, and new cards are revealed.
Who won?
After completing the eighth round, the game ends. It's time to find out who speaks the language of nature and can easily name any plant. In other words, the points earned from the cards and the bonus tokens at the campfire are counted. The naturalist who managed to outscore the others and collect the most points is declared the winner and the most experienced naturalist.
The set includes five envelopes with themed cards. These sets of cards can be considered separate expansions. They expand gameplay options and are recommended for experienced travelers. The rules also offer a solo play option. In this case, the opponent is an imaginary character named Wanderer.
Contents:
- Game board
- 2 double-sided campfire boards and 2 blockers
- 12 goal tokens
- 20 action tokens
- 12 bonus tokens
- 28 road tokens
- First player token
- Solo game token
- 4 color marker tokens
- 4 foldable tray for decks
- 184 cards
- 5 envelopes with additional cards
- Round marker
- Card catalog
- Instructions
- Game rules
Game duration: from 60 to 90 minutes
Number of players: from 1 to 4