Move over, house plants! There’s a new ecosystem tableau builder board game taking over the living room. From the makers of Block and Key (2022) and Terminus (2024), Inside Up Games’ Earth (2023) is a nature lover’s paradise. Bring your friends, family, and pets (yes, they are more than welcome too) and traverse the many wonders that this world has to offer in the beautiful board game Earth – now listed for $14 off the original price.
At a sweet discount, Amazon has truly given us the world with this one. The Earth board game is a fun way to build, learn, and grow as players take turns in ways that give each other major and minor benefits. With every well-crafted card detailing the diverse flora and fauna that Earth has to offer, players can feel fully immersed in the ecosystem of their own making for 45 to 90 joyous minutes of their lives.
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While each player tries to end the game by building up their tableau, or their island, with 16 cards first, they get to experience how even the smallest of changes can impact themselves and other players. The game offers a limitless variety of card combinations, which span ecosystems, habitats, and unique plants and animals, as well as weather cards and seed, soil, and other resource tokens.
With over 364 cards and over 25,000 starting setups, players can enjoy the game and experiment with Earth’s many connections, which makes for a decent way to enrich the knowledge about ecosystems that some game enthusiasts might have already gained from some amazing animated nature documentaries out there. In fact, the best part about this game, besides the endless choices and the beautiful encyclopedic-level cards that the game comes with, is that players can choose to play the game solo, in teams of two, or together as a group of five. There’s a handy rulebook to help any lost players find their way as well.
With the new Earth: Abundance expansion pack on the horizon, this deal is the perfect time to test your ability to build an island in a way that would make David Attenborough smile at your little slice of Earth.
The core Earth board game makes players feel like it deserves a decent spot on the list of the most experimental open-world games. To add to this feeling, there are now game expansions for players to attain more cards and other small items. Currently, Earth: Weather Module is the expansion pack that is available for purchase, and soon players will be able to get their hands on Earth: Abundance.
Earth: Weather Module gives players another layer of gameplay on top of the many choices that they already have to make in the game. This expansion offers 12 new double-sided cards and 24 weather effects. This gives players the chance to put their knowledge about Nature to good use, which they can deepen any time by watching some of the best nature documentaries available these days, and leverage weather phenomena to their advantage as they earn bonus resources, activate abilities more frequently in the game, and make more efficient resource exchanges.
Earth: Abundance is the most recent addition to the Earth board game. This expansion gives players over 80 new cards, new seed resources, and more interaction opportunities with other players throughout the game. Also, you can play with six people instead of five with this addition.
Since the first introduction of Earth, there have been many smaller game additions along the way in the form of promo cards. Currently, there are five promo cards that players can collect. They include:
- Earth: African Lion / Koala Promo Card (2023)
- Earth: River Otter / Turtles Promo Card (2023)
- Earth: Bighorn Sheep / Rocky Mountain Elk Promo Card (2024)
- Earth: Checkered Lily Promo Card (2024)
- Earth: Lychee Promo Card (2025)
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Recommended Age |
8 + |
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Number of Players |
1–5 |
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Publisher |
Inside Up Games |
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