🎯 The Goal
Lead a dedicated nature conservation department to protect the Amazon rainforest against destructive illegal gold miners, loggers, and environmental degradation, coordinating resources to complete vital animal protection missions across historically accurate geographic maps.
⚙️ Core Actions
The game functions as an ecological, scenario-driven strategy game utilizing deck-building and movement mechanics across sequential historic campaign acts:
- Navigate Rivers and Roads: Command your conservation teams across a map grid representing real-world sections of the Amazon basin, carefully plotting travel routes via waterways and trails to reach high-threat sectors.
- Draft Support Networks: Acquire new structural and specialist Support Cards from a public market row to customize your starting deck. These cards allow you to recruit field experts, buy logistics equipment, and upgrade your department’s recurring operational capabilities.
- Solve Missions via Tag Matching: Encounter endangered native wildlife in peril. Fulfilling a wildlife mission requires you to match and spend precise combinations of environmental icons (“tags”) generated from the support cards currently held in your hand.
- Halt Industrial Invaders: If you delay or fail to resolve threats quickly, illegal loggers, wildfire tokens, and mining outposts rapidly multiply across the sector, permanently locking down routes and destroying fragile habitats.
- Gain Experience and Level Up: Successfully saving animal populations earns experience points, which you spend to permanently upgrade your individual character’s passive abilities or buy structural facility expansions for your command base.
- Endure Harsh Environmental Events: Resolve unpredictable Event Cards drawn at the conclusion of player cycles. Events simulate real-world forest management hurdles, triggering abrupt weather shifts, bureaucratic roadblocks, or sudden flare-ups of illegal operations that stall your field units.
🧠 Why you’ll like it
It perfectly translates real-world rainforest conservation into a highly interactive, thematic deck-builder. The core tension is a punishing race against time—leaving a threat unaddressed causes it to escalate exponentially, turning a small localized mining camp into an absolute environmental catastrophe that suffocates your movement lanes. For players who love historical campaigns, modular scenario progression, and highly strategic, co-op or competitive spatial resource management with a genuine environmental purpose, it is a deeply rewarding, brain-burning tactical puzzle.