
Design the zoo you always dreamed of — filling it with rare animals, partnering with conservation organisations across the globe, and building enclosures that would make any wildlife enthusiast weep with joy. In Ark Nova, you will juggle competing priorities to grow your humble patch of land into the world's most scientifically prestigious zoological park.
Design the zoo you always dreamed of — filling it with rare animals, partnering with conservation organisations across the globe, and building enclosures that would make any wildlife enthusiast weep with joy. In Ark Nova, you will juggle competing priorities to grow your humble patch of land into the world's most scientifically prestigious zoological park.
Expand your zoo with two new maps: the Geographical Zoo and the Rescue Station. Each map offers a fresh layout and unique strategic wrinkles to challenge even experienced zoo directors.
Five new zoo board designs expand your options in Ark Nova, including a tournament layout so everyone plays the same map. The opposite sides of the tournament boards each feature unique abilities like Artificial Intelligence, Caves, Drawing Board, and Lagoon.
Ark Nova: Marine Worlds, an expansion for Ark Nova, introduces multiple new elements to the game, such as sea animals that each have to be played in new special enclosures that must be built adjacent to water. Roughly half the sea animals are reef dwellers, and whenever you add a reef dweller to your zoo, you trigger the ability of all reef dwellers in your zoo. To deal with the dilution of the deck, naturally caused by adding more cards, all sea cards feature a wave icon, and whenever it is revealed in the display, you discard the first card in the row, then replenish. A new fourth university is available on the association board, and if you take it, you claim one of six special universities from the reserve that feature one research icon and one of six animal icons. When you take this registry, you reveal cards from the top of the deck and keep the first revealed card with an animal icon that matches your chosen university. For each of the five action cards, four alternate versions with a little twist will be available. Players draft action cards at the start of play, replacing two of their standard action cards with these new ones, increasing the asymmetry in the game. New bonus tiles and final scoring cards will also be included. Also the expansion will include alternate wooden markers for the 3 tracks and cute animals to mark the conservation projects you support instead of using your regular player markers.
Five new zoo board layouts for Ark Nova, including the official 2024 World Series of Board Gaming tournament map. Four of the boards feature unique new abilities like Artificial Intelligence, Caves, and Lagoon.
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Zatu Games

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