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Enjoy these nature-themed, award-winning board games with the whole family...or solo! Each game includes a link for purchase, information about the game, number of players, age recommendations, and time frame. Games are listed in order of the author's favorites, listed from top to bottom (top is the most beloved). Please email Rachel Arbor (arborrn@miamioh.edu) for more details and game recommendations. Enjoy!
Do you want to create a civilization for small critters? Revel in the adorable artistry of this tiny ecosystem as you enjoy a game of Everdell with the whole family!
1-4 Players
Ages 13+
40-80 minutes
Do you love birds? Look no further! Wingspan, created by a birder, has you living as a bird! You'll learn so much about the incredible birds of our planet without even realizing it because you're having too much fun!
1-5 Players
Ages 10+
40-70 minutes
Want to immerse yourself in gorgeous arbors? This strategy game features some of the most beautiful and colorful trees our world has to offer. This game has you competing to build the most impressive Arboretum!
2-4 Players
Ages 8+
30 minutes
Stuck where you are? Don't let that get in your way! Experience the wonders of our National Parks by playing as a National Parks explorer in the game Parks!
1-5 Players
Ages 10+
30-60 minutes
Have you ever wondered what it would be like living underwater? Look no further - and experience it yourself! This amazing game, Underwater Cities, has you competing to building the best underwater civilization.
1-4 players
Ages 12+
80-150 minutes
Learn how to establish human life on other planets like Mars (& Venus in expansion) in this addictive game, Terraforming Mars! It manages to incorporate some pretty cool science in the process.
1-5 players
Ages 12+
2 hours
In the game Mariposas, made by the same creator of Wingspan (above), you ARE monarch butterflies as they travel along their journey from Mexico to Canada - and everywhere in between!
2-5 Players
Ages 14+
45-75 minutes
Want to be an astronaut?! Leaving Earth is for the NASA & math-lovers out there! It's incredibly accurate, as it challenges its players to calculate how to conduct space missions.
1-5 Players
Ages 15+
1-3 Hours
In Evolution, players compete to survive in their ever-changing surroundings by adapting! Develop adaptations in time to live long enough to reproduce and pass those traits on to your offspring!
2-6 Players
Ages 12+
60-75 minutes
Photosynthesis splits the life cycle of a tree into 4 parts...all of which are equally beautiful! You'll learn all about the scientific processes trees undergo as you venture through this awesome game.
2-4 Players
Ages 10+
40-60 minutes
Discover how single- and multi-cellular life came to be in the incredible Bios Genesis game - and its sequel (in which you start as a complex plant or animal), Bios Megafauna. YOU are the primordial soup!
1-4 Players
Ages 12+
1-2 Hours
Have you ever wondered how clouds form? How can you use water to ensure a good crop yield? Do you love the smell of rain (aka petrichor)? In the game of Petrichor, players learn all about the water cycle and cloud formation - because you ARE a cloud!
1-4 Players
Ages 14+
20-80 minutes
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