Habitats: Welcome to the Jungle!
Posted: 11 May 2026, 13:01
Your job is to build a wildlife park where animals can thrive in their natural environments, no cages, no fences. You want grassland for your Zebras, watery hideouts for crocodiles, and gorillas? They have very specific needs too. So do all 68 different animals ready to join your reserve.
Cozy on the surface, this game turns every turn into a satisfying puzzle. Move your ranger jeep around a shared market of tiles, choosing animals and terrain for your park. Animals will only score if their habitat requirements are met. An otter without water? A rhino stuck next to rocks? That’s an unhappy preserve right there. But fulfilling every animal's desire for land becomes a more and more difficult task with each tile you add.
As your park expands, so do your opportunities. Aside from expanding your park with different landscape types, flora and animals, you can improve its profitability by building extra entrance roads, trek spots, and watchtowers.
Habitats is played over three years (not real ones, rest assured) and whoever best met their goals, once the number of turns shown on the Year Track are done, receives bonus points and guess what: whoever scores the most points at the end of the 3 years, wins the game.
So, once you have mastered the tutorial, build smart to keep your animals happy. And maybe don’t leave the crocodiles too close to the tourists.
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We would like to thank Corné van Moorsel, the game designer, as well as Allplay, the publisher, for giving us the opportunity to add their game to our platform. And thanks to harpwn for bringing this wonderful wildlife adventure to players around the world.
This was your Monday release.
If you do things right, otters might hold your hand to go to sleep, so take care and play fair…
