Board Game Parks

Pack your backpacks — a great journey awaits you! You will walk along rivers, visit mountain peaks, visit a national park and preserve a collection of memories of wildlife in a photo album that will be the envy of your friends.

This is a competitive board game about visiting the most picturesque corners of America. As tourists, players prepare equipment, collect resources at rest areas and quickly take out a camera as soon as they see a beautiful view.

Game rules

A game in Parks lasts three rounds, each of which players follow a tourist route.

At the beginning of the game, each player receives a capture card, which dictates a certain individual goal for him. After completing it, he chooses — either gain a powerful ability that helps during the game, or discover an additional way to earn victory points.

Each player has 2 tourists. On their turn, the player moves their tourist to any free cell in front of them, receiving its benefits. If a player has a lit fire, they can put it out to place their tourist in an occupied cell.

Only the player who occupies the cell first receives bonuses from the weather, other bonuses — any traveler who visits it.

The possibilities of the route sections include:

• obtaining the specified resources
• the opportunity to take a photo or take a flask token
• buying equipment
• bonuses from the route die roll
• exchange a regular resource for a fauna token
• obtaining a naturalist token
• booking and visiting parks

The round ends when all tourists reach the end of the route. In this case, the player who is the last one left on the trail immediately teleports his leisurely tourists to the end of the route. The player or players with the most resources required by the season`s task receive its bonus.

At the end of the game, players count the victory points they have earned for:

• Autumn season bonus
• Parks visited
• Photos taken, including the bonus for the largest number of them
• Favorite cards, if the end-of-game bonus was chosen
• First tourist marker

The player with the most points wins.

Features of the second edition

This board game has a more convenient and modern design, and also rethinks certain game mechanics, while maintaining the same spirit of exciting tourist journeys.
To the main differences from the first edition include:

• new illustrations in a unified style
• 63 unique park maps
• an enlarged playing field that includes a hiking route
• tablets with a flask and a backpack for each player
• a route cube and other new mechanics

Game modes

The game offers several interesting modes.

In addition to the basic rules, you can play with camping, which adds a camp board with alternative action cells in place of the cell where the tourist stopped.

In solo mode, players go on a hike with Ranger Teddy to determine their skill level. To make this challenge more difficult, you can use volunteer project cards in a solo game, which impose certain restrictions and conditions. The more such cards, the more difficulties await travelers.

What`s more, volunteer project cards can be played not only in solo games, they can also be used in a game for 2-5 players to add a sense of crisis.

You can also bring Ranger Teddy into a two-player game to add more tension to the confrontation.

It`s up to you whether you want to relax and enjoy the aesthetics of the landscapes or overcome challenge after challenge.

This is an atmospheric and aesthetic game with simple but deep resource collection and set mechanics. It will be a great fit for family gatherings, because you do not have a direct conflict with rivals.

Players who dream of mountains, forests and freedom will find a piece of themselves in Parks.

This is the perfect game to remember your favorite hikes — or imagine those that are yet to come.