Savannah Park board game box front featuring illustrated African wildlife including giraffe, oryx, and meerkat, surrounded by colorful game components on a blue background.

Savannah Park

MSRP $29.99
$25.99
$25.99
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Savannah Park board game box front featuring illustrated African wildlife including giraffe, oryx, and meerkat, surrounded by colorful game components on a blue background.
  • Savannah Park board game box front featuring illustrated African wildlife including giraffe, oryx, and meerkat, surrounded by colorful game components on a blue background.
  • Savannah Park board game laid out showing the hexagonal tile game board with safari animals, plus the game box, wooden meeple, and acacia tree hexagon tiles.
  • Savannah Park open box showing four illustrated animal puzzle tiles featuring an ostrich, oryx, meerkat, giraffe, elephant, zebra, lion, and rhino.
  • Savannah Park board game components including animal-illustrated hexagonal tiles, wooden meeples, and large animal-art dice on a blue surface.
  • Savannah Park game board with numbered scoring track, central animal hexagon tiles, and four colored wooden meeples positioned around the safari-themed board.
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Savannah Park

Savannah Park

MSRP $29.99
$25.99
$25.99
Our Take

A family-weight tile game from Kramer and Kiesling where you build a wildlife park and herd animals to watering holes, but each animal can only move once and your opponents control the timing. Simple rules, surprising depth.

Game At A Glance

Players 1-4 PlayersBest: 2-3
Playtime 20-40 Min
Recommended Ages 8+
Complexity Light · 1.8 / 5
Play Style Competitive, Solo-Friendly, Light Interactive
Game Type Tile-Laying, Set Collection, Abstract
Theme Animals, Safari, Africa, Wildlife
Publisher Deep Print Games
Designer Michael Kiesling, Wolfgang Kramer
Year Published 2021
Awards
2021 Golden Geek Light Game of the Year Nominee, 2021 Meeples Choice Award Nominee

Build a park where every animal moves once

Your wildlife park has a herd of zebras settling near the watering hole, a small pack of antelope grazing under an acacia tree, and an elephant calf splashing happily in the shallows. You have built a small paradise, and now a brush fire flickers across two tiles and forces you to rearrange everything you had planned, because each animal can only move once and your opponents have a say in when.

Savannah Park is a pattern-building tile game from legendary designer duo Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling. Each player runs an identical wildlife park, and on every turn one player picks an animal type that everyone has to move (in their own park) before the round ends. The challenge is shaping your park so that the move that helps you also costs your neighbors. Brush fires, watering holes, and herd-pattern bonuses all push and pull at the layout.

What makes Savannah Park special is how much depth lives inside such a clean rule set. The shared turn-trigger means every choice is interactive even though each player works on their own board. There are several variants in the box, including a challenging solo mode, so the game scales from a 20-minute family round to a 40-minute strategic session.

This is part of Capstone's Family Brand line. Plays 1 to 4, ages 8 and up, and the rules teach in five minutes, but the strategy keeps revealing itself across replays. Kramer and Kiesling do this kind of game better than anyone working today.

If your shelf has a slot for one tile-placement game between Calico and Patchwork, this is the spot. The art is warm without being saccharine, and the puzzle is sharper than the box suggests.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many players can play Savannah Park?
Savannah Park plays 1 to 4 players, and plays best at 2 to 3. Four-player still works well; the player count mostly affects how long you wait between turns.
How long does a game of Savannah Park take?
Plan for 20 to 40 minutes. The basic mode runs around 20 to 30 minutes, and the included variants extend toward 40 for a deeper strategic game.
Is Savannah Park good for kids?
Yes. The box is rated 8 and up, and the rules teach in five minutes. Kids enjoy the animal theme and the gentle competition, and the variants give parents enough depth to keep the game interesting after the kids have gone to bed.
Does Savannah Park have a solo mode?
Yes. The base game includes a challenging solo variant that some players prefer to the multi-player mode for the puzzle satisfaction. Solo plays in about 20 minutes.
How does Savannah Park compare to Calico or Patchwork?
All three are tile-placement puzzlers, but Savannah Park is more interactive. Calico and Patchwork are mostly solitaire games played in parallel. In Savannah Park, every player triggers the same animal move on everyone's board, so what you choose affects everyone else's puzzle.
Who designed Savannah Park?
Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling, the duo behind Tikal, Java, Mexica, Wandering Towers, and decades of award-winning Euro designs. They are some of the most accomplished designers in modern board gaming, and Savannah Park is one of their cleanest family-weight collaborations.

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