Restoria

Restoria is a tabletop game in which you take on the role of an ecologist working to restore grasslands. Your challenge is to build a species diverse plant community that is resilient to wildfires, drought, and other events. Draw from 31 different Plant cards, each with abilities and characteristics based on real-life research. Each plant species has different interactions with adjacent plants, so where you place each plant matters. Play Land Management cards, such as prescribed burns or grazing, to remove Invasive Species or nurture your community in other ways. The game’s mechanics incorporate the four high-level processes of community ecology: selection, drift, speciation, and dispersal, making Restoria not only a strategic challenge, but an educational experience, too. —description from the publisher