Crawl forward if you are looking for the best animal board games, because that is what we are going to give you. Everyone loves animals and board game designers are not blind to this. There are many strong animal presences among all sorts of board game genres. For this list, we focused mainly on games that focused on doing something with or for animals. There are many games out there that have animals in them but do not belong here. This is our list of the 10 best animal board games.
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Agricola Agricola is royalty in the best animal board games space. |
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Great Western Trail You need to build up an operation to accomplish this which is done through deck building and area movement. |
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Wingspan 100s of beautiful unique bird cards in this game about growing and supporting a bird sanctuary. |
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Caverna: The Cave Farmers You are the bearded leader of a small dwarf family that lives in a little cave in the mountains |
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Root You are one of four different races found deep within the forest and you are all fighting amongst yourselves for forest supremacy. |
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Everdell Dynamic game of tableau building and worker placement that takes you deep in the forest with all the magical critters. |
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Dominant Species Abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history: the ponderous encroachment of an ice age and what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing earth. |
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Bärenpark Bärenpark takes you into the world of bears, challenging you to build your own bear park, trying to make it as beautiful as possible while efficiently using all the space you have. |
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Evolution Adapt your species in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce and predators lurk. |
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Zooloretto Breed and nourish small, large, wild, and exotic animals through set collection and tile collection to thrive and ultimately win. |
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