Wildscape My second nominee for "best game of 2026!"

About Wildscape, from BoardGameGeek:

In Wildscape, you will restore barren lands in Africa with rich habitats -- woodlands, wetlands, savanna, deserts, and rivers -- to create areas for a diverse animal ecosystem to return and to thrive. Each player must expand their land and fill it with specific habitat tiles based on the needs of both common (but variable) objective cards and personal goal cards acquired throughout the game. Your habitats' size and type will attract various herbivores that grant end-game points and will support predators and primates that give powerful bonuses. You will hire specialists for their on-going effects to accelerate your revitalization effort in unique ways. The backbone of all of this is an action selection system on the community roundel where each space contains a unique combination of possible actions. Driven by this choice, action tokens cascade around the roundel creating an ever-changing strength for these actions throughout the game. The winner will be the one who develops the most valuable ecosystem of herbivores, predators, primates, birds, and indigenous fauna. -description from the publisher