Wildscape Preorder
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Listen to the Wildscape. Bring the Land Back to Life.
Revitalize a desolate landscape and guide its transformation into a flourishing, balanced ecosystem in this strategic board game for 1–4 naturalists. Crafted by an acclaimed creative team, Wildscape is designed by Sebastian Bleasdale, known for strategy games such as Keyflower, and developed by Juma Al-JouJou, the game designer behind the hit heavy-strategy game Clans of Caledonia.
- Game Mechanics: Strategic Tile-Laying | Dynamic Community Rondel | Open Tableau Drafting | Variable Objectives
- Playtime: ~30 minutes per player | Ages: 14+ | Complexity: Medium Strategic (3.25/5)
🌿 The Story: The Land is Ready to Breathe Again
Decades of climate pressure and human intervention have pushed natural systems to their absolute limits. Yet, across solitary expanses of Africa, as the human footprint has dwindled, the earth finally has a hard-won chance to recover.
As a dedicated naturalist, the seed of renewal is in your hands. Step by step, you will gently nurture this recovering landscape one tile at a time. Protect fragile habitats, reintroduce lost native species, and carefully restore the natural balance. But tread lightly: push the land too hard and it will wither; listen to its needs, and you will cultivate the most robust ecosystem of all.
🧩 The Core Mechanic: Shared Rondel Meets Communal Mancala
If you love the spatial puzzle of tile-laying games like Cascadia, the strategic animal card play of Ark Nova, and the clever token manipulation of mancala-style games like Trajan, Wildscape fuses these elements into a completely fresh experience.
Instead of a static action menu, Wildscape is driven by a dynamic, closed-loop energy ecosystem. When you take an action on the communal rondel, you slide your spent energy tokens into the center. At the end of your turn, those tokens are distributed one-by-one clockwise back onto the rondel segments.
Every single choice you make directly alters the available energy and shifts the action strength for everyone else at the table. It is a beautifully interactive, tight strategic puzzle where precise timing and exploiting your opponents' wake are the ultimate keys to victory.
✨ Key Features: Why You'll Love Wildscape
The Dynamic Community Rondel
Every decision you make shifts the amount of sun energy available, changing the strength of future actions for everyone. Timing and capitalizing on opportunities are everything.
Strategic Tile-Laying Ecosystems
Expand your wilderness to any shape and size. Craft distinct river, wetland, woodland, savanna, and desert habitats according to your own design to maximize potential value.
Reintroduce & Establish Wildlife
Populate your habitats with native herbivores and snakes. Choosing which endangered animal communities to reintroduce and establish builds the strategic foundation for the ultimate success of your ecosystem.
Engine-Building Animal Tableau
Draft influential animal cards from an open, shared market to continuously upgrade your engine. Release apex predators once suitable prey is present in your territory, and deploy primates to unlock powerful special actions and secure extra points.
Unlock Unique Specialists
Race against your opponents to attract specialists before they do, gaining powerful immediate and ongoing special abilities. With 40 completely unique specialist cards in the game, your strategy will adapt every single time you play.
Competitive Bird Scoring
Clash with your direct neighbors over shared Bird cards placed between players. Out-perform your opponents on unique, dynamic environmental criteria during mid-game and final scoring to secure critical bio energy and crucial end-game Victory Points.
Secret Fauna Objectives
Keep hidden Fauna cards in your hand to build towards secret, personal end-game goals. From the tiny African honey bee to the giant ground pangolin, optimize your ecosystem to score massive point multipliers based on your specific habitats, animal values, and unique landscape features.
Highly Interactive Solo Automa
Face off against the ruthless "Poachers" in a dedicated solo mode. This robust artificial opponent elegantly simulates a human competitor—it is incredibly easy to operate and execute, yet offers a tense, highly interactive strategic challenge across 7 adjustable difficulty levels.
Custom Screen-Printed Meeples
Bring Wildscape to life with amazing table presence when you populate your land with custom-designed primate and predator meeples. A fully illustrated gazelle takes center stage on the rondel as the action selection token, and screen-printed "magnifying glass" specialist tokens complete the collection.
Premium Organization Included
Forget messy setups and long teardowns. Every copy of Wildscape comes equipped with 4 custom-designed lidded inserts engineered for lightning-fast table readiness and perfect component storage.
Compete to build the ultimate ecosystem with a massive array of premium components:
- 304 Beautiful Cardboard Tiles (all with linen finish): Including 70 Habitat tiles, 46 River tiles, 20 Land tiles, 108 Herbivore tiles, 24 Snake tiles, and 15 Oasis tiles.
- 136 Unique Cards: Featuring 40 Specialists, 28 Predators, 28 Primates, 28 Fauna objectives, 10 Bird cards, and Solo challenges.
- 34+ Custom Screen-Printed Wooden Meeples: Highly detailed Primate and Predator pawns to bring your personal board to life, custom Specialist markers, and your action selection token personified as the iconic African gazelle.
- 4 Custom Lidded Inserts: Made to keep your components perfectly organized right out of the box. These are fully compatible with sleeved cards, and feature custom icon engravings alongside a double-sided insert guide so you always know exactly where every component belongs!
- Essential Gameplay Tools: 1 Rondel board, 1 Specialist board, 4 Player aids, 1 Scorepad, and 1 Rulebook.
🌍 Localized Editions: EN 🇬🇧 / DE 🇩🇪 / FR 🇫🇷
Wildscape is available in fully translated standalone editions for English, German, and French.
Your chosen language edition includes localized:
- Game Box graphics, Rulebook, Player Aids, all 136 Cards, and 132 Animal Tiles.
📖 Rulebook & Player Aid
Explore the mechanics now. Our finalized rulebooks are available for digital download.
🎞️ Tutorials, Critic Reviews & Playthroughs
How I Roll | Rip Up the Rules: Wildscape Tutorial (🇬🇧)
Rahdo Runs Through: "My second nominee for Best Game of 2026!" (🇬🇧)
Johannes & Sunniva | Board Gaming Ramblings: "There are so many cool choices and so many strategies." (🇬🇧)
Tom Heath | Slickerdrips: Solo playthrough. "One of my favourite games of the year so far with an excellent solo mode.” (🇬🇧)
Sven | Brettballett: "Wildscape is a hot pick for my top 10 of 2026, and it's definitely way up there already." (🇩🇪)
💬 Blog Reviews
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Markus | Brett & Pad (🇩🇪)
✏️ Full blog"Creates a dynamic and a feeling at the table that I don't experience with other games."
"Incredibly well thought out."
"The integrated insert is so ingeniously designed that the game can be set up in 5 minutes." -
SwatSh | Vin d'jeu (🇫🇷)
✏️ Full blog"Le système d’énergie renouvelable dans lequel rien ne se perd tout se transforme et peut profiter aux autres est tout bonnement superbe."
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"The renewable energy system—in which nothing is lost, everything is transformed, and others can benefit—is simply superb."
⏳ Project Timeline
With production final, here is our delivery schedule:
- July 2026: Mass Production Completed. ✔️
- Aug–Oct 2026: Ocean Freight is booked! Games will arrive in warehouses by October.
- Oct 2026: Doorstep Fulfillment Begins.
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🔒 Secure Your Copy
Karma Games is bypassing crowdfunding to bring the game straight to you. We are producing a strictly limited initial print run.
Zero funding risk: Manufacturing is already complete! Ocean freight to a fulfillment center near you is underway.
No massive delays: Game design/testing, art design, factory production, booking shipping—it’s all behind us. Games will be in fulfillment centers before the end of October.
No complicated process: Pay once now, and you won’t be charged any more later. No second check-ins needed at all. The games ship to you when they hit fulfillment.
Flat-rate shipping: Get the same flat-rate shipping we always offer. Order multiple copies and pay the same low shipping rate! You can even add other games to ship along with your copy of Wildscape.
Why preorder now:
- Avoid Sell-Outs: The small first print run will clear out fast; second runs take significant time.
- Exclusive Discount: Secure a special price over 35% off MSRP.
- Add-on Sleeves: Get high-quality card sleeves at a discount, fully compatible with our lidded inserts.
FAQ
Can I order other games at the same time
Yes! You can order other games in the same order with Wildscape. These games will be held and will not ship until Wildscape ships to you in the Fall in a single delivery.
When will I get my order
Most games will deliver in October 2026. However, as we must account for the possibilty of unexpected delays beyond our control, our stated deadline for customers to receive their copy is:
Europe, US, UK: December 14, 2026
Asia / Oceania: November 30, 2026
* For India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, South Africa:
Shipments to these countries must meet minimum pallet requirements and could experience long waiting times before dispatch. Final delivery for these countries is February 30, 2027.
Can I preorder for pickup at Essen
No. We do not have an option to pickup preorders at Essen. However, we will have copies at Essen for sale at a higher price (unless we sell out during preorders, of course). :)
Will I have to pay customs
We can offer customs-free shipping to most countries!
Customs duties may be due upon delivery for the following countries:
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Vatican.
I don't see Canada on the list of countries
Unfortunately, we cannot offer the preorder to Canadian customers as we no longer have a warehouse to ship from within Canada. We are reaching out to Canadian distributors/retailers to get the game into Canada.
That said, if we get enough sign-ups from Canada, we’d love to launch Wildscape there sooner rather than later!
How big is the box
The box size is 311mm x 224mm x 90mm.
What size are the cards
All 136 cards are Standard USA size (56mm x 87mm).
I have a different question
Whether you have a question about the game or the preorder campaign, please ask in the comment section below.
You can also connect with us in any of our social channels for questions and comments, too:
- Facebook Wildscape group
- Join our Discord and ask in the #wildscape channel.
- Visit the forums on our BoardGameGeek page and ask away! Maybe someone asked the same question, or you can post your own.
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Sleeve Size: 56mm x 87mm (Standard USA)
