
2021Michael Kiesling, Wolfgang Kramer
Mainly reviews. Savannah Park is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 25 reviews, 13 how-to-play guides, 9 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
In Savannah Park, you each run your own wildlife park, and your goal is to group animals with their own kind - but everyone takes turns deciding what to move, so you might not be able to shuffle animals into the right spaces. Each player starts the game with the same set of 33 unique animal tiles, with those tiles laid out at random in your personal wildlife park. Three bush-fire spaces and one rock space will remain unoccupied in your park for the entire game, and six tree spaces and four grass spaces are unoccupied at the start of play. On a turn, you name a specific face-up tile that all players must pick up, flip face down, then move to a different empty space within their own park. Tiles that have been flipped cannot move again, and once all tiles have moved, the game ends with a scoring round. First, tiles adjacent to bush fires are removed if they depict as many animals as the number of fires (1, 2, or 3) on the bush-fire space. Score for each grass and tree uncovered on your board. Finally, score for each of the six animal species; the bigger the main herd of each of species and the more water holes it contains, the more points you score, e.g. a herd of five rhinos and three watering holes is worth (5x3) 15 points. The player with the most points wins. Savannah Park includes a solo mode, a set-up variant that allows you to place the bush fires and trees where you wish, and a scoring variant that rewards you for bumping a lion out of the animals' way.
Savannah Park has 55 videos from 48 creators: 25 reviews, 13 how-to-play guides, 9 playthroughs, 5 unboxings and 3 other videos. They date from 2021 to August 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Savannah Park | QUICK & DETAILED Tutorial | Learn to Play in 8 MINUTES!" by All You Can Board, which runs 8 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Savannah Park Review" by Drive Thru Games. 25 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Savannah Park - GameNight! Se9 Ep 43 - How to Play and Playthrough" by BoardGameGeek, one of 9 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Wandering Towers, El Grande and Downforce, also by Wolfgang Kramer, or Azul, also by Michael Kiesling. It appears in convention videos from Spiel Essen 2021.
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From BoardGameGeek:
In Savannah Park, you each run your own wildlife park, and your goal is to group animals with their own kind - but everyone takes turns deciding what to move, so you might not be able to shuffle animals into the right spaces. Each player starts the game with the same set of 33 unique animal tiles, with those tiles laid out at random in your personal wildlife park. Three bush-fire spaces and one rock space will remain unoccupied in your park for the entire game, and six tree spaces and four grass spaces are unoccupied at the start of play. On a turn, you name a specific face-up tile that all players must pick up, flip face down, then move to a different empty space within their own park. Tiles that have been flipped cannot move again, and once all tiles have moved, the game ends with a scoring round. First, tiles adjacent to bush fires are removed if they depict as many animals as the number of fires (1, 2, or 3) on the bush-fire space. Score for each grass and tree uncovered on your board. Finally, score for each of the six animal species; the bigger the main herd of each of species and the more water holes it contains, the more points you score, e.g. a herd of five rhinos and three watering holes is worth (5x3) 15 points. The player with the most points wins. Savannah Park includes a solo mode, a set-up variant that allows you to place the bush fires and trees where you wish, and a scoring variant that rewards you for bumping a lion out of the animals' way.
Designers
Michael Kiesling, Wolfgang Kramer
Artists
Annika Heller, Andreas Resch, Fabrice Weiss
Publisher
Deep Print Games
Categories
Mechanics