In June 2021, Value Add Games will release a second title based on this film, a two-player card game by designer Maja Milavec called WolfWalkers: My Story. Here's an overview of how to play:
Each turn, you take one of the six available double-sided cards and place it in your grid, taking either one of the two "objective" cards that indicate how you can score points or one of the four "story" cards that will help you fulfill these objectives. Objectives come in three types: shapes that reward a specific arrangement of cards, arrows that reward the placement of certain icons in the same row or column as the objective, and balances that reward the same number of certain icons anywhere in your 5x5 grid. Each card you place after the first must be adjacent to another card. After both players have completed their grid, the game ends and the player with the most points wins.
The game includes an expansion that provides more options for players and more interaction, with "permanent" cards that change gameplay in general and "opportunity" cards that allow you a special once-per-game ability. For a small change in gameplay, add one permanent card of your choice; for more advanced play, add one permanent and three opportunity cards at random. With 15 permanent cards and 25 opportunities cards, no two games will be alike.
With a second copy of WolfWalkers: My Story, you can play the game with up to four players.
Here's an overview of how to play this tile-moving game:
Each player starts the game with the same set of 33 unique animal tiles, with those tiles laid out at random in your personal wildlife park. Three bush-fire spaces and one rock space will remain unoccupied in your park for the entire game, and six tree spaces and four grass spaces are unoccupied at the start of play.
On a turn, you name a specific face-up tile that all players must pick up, flip face down, then move to a different empty space within their own park. Tiles that have been flipped cannot move again, and once all tiles have moved, the game ends with a scoring round. First, tiles adjacent to bush fires are removed if they depict as many animals as the number of fires (1, 2, or 3) on the bush-fire space. Score for each grass and tree uncovered on your board. Finally, score for each of the six animal species; the bigger the main herd of each of species and the more water holes it contains, the more points you score, e.g. a herd of five rhinos and three watering holes is worth (5x3) 15 points. The player with the most points wins.
Savannah Park includes a solo mode, a set-up variant that allows you to place the bush fires and trees where you wish, and a scoring variant that rewards you for bumping a lion out of the animals' way.
• Capstone Games has also announced that it will release Carlo Bortolini's Riftforce — which debuted in April 2021 from Austrian publisher 1 More Time Games and which landed on the 2021 Kennerspiel des Jahres recommended list — in October 2021.
Riftforce is a two-player dueling game in which players take turns drafting four of the ten asymmetrical guilds, after which they will compete to gain riftforce, attacking one another, sacrificing elementals to create combos, and prepping for the future.
Originating publisher 1 More Time Games plans to release an expansion for the game — Riftforce Beyond — in late 2021, with this item containing rules for games with one, three, and four players, along with cards for eight new guilds.