Wild Kratts Endangered Wildlife Review

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We review Wild Kratts Endangered Wildlife, a family weight board game published by Rather Dashing Games. Wild Kratts Endangered Wildlife is based on the TV show of the same name and offers different levels of play.

Until recently, IP-based games usually would have most gamers running for the doors, and rightfully so as many were atrocious. About a year ago I was looking for board games for my son with a Wild Kratts theme. Wild Kratts is a show about two brothers and their friends going on adventures that teaches children about animals. The games I found were a Trouble clone, some other roll-and-move game, and a memory-matching game. At the Origins preview page on BGG Endangered Wildlife was listed and my interest was piqued.

Is Endangered Wildlife the Wild Kratts game that gamers with young gamers have been looking for? Or would I rather spoon with a porcupine than ever play this again? Read on to find out.

The game consists of 51 habitat tiles that have either one large animal on it or is subdivided into four quadrants of one or more animals and a Tortuga (start tile) that starts on the table. There are six different animal types in the game and the goal is to build and claim the largest habitat for each animal.

Each player starts each turn with three tiles and your turn consists of adding a tile to the table, building up habitats of one or more animals. Tiles must be played aligned with other tiles (in a grid) but rotated as desired. After playing a tile you can opt to play one of your creature power discs to claim that habitat if it’s currently unclaimed and it can still grow or shrink after claiming it. Any tile being touched by a power disc is locked and can’t be moved. Power discs can cover a single space or