Mycelia Mycelia is a deck-building board game with a natural theme: mushrooms. Each player has their own game board containing 20 dewdrops. You win the game by getting rid of all...
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is one of the most popular Nintendo game series. You play as Link in the open world of Hyrule and try to...
Hero of the Kingdom (series) While not explicitly framed as an ‘ecogame’, the Hero of the Kingdom series (developed by Lonely Troops) offers an interesting and sometimes surprising representation of human-nature relations in a fantastical...
Machine Dreams: Rainforest Refik Anadol’s Machine Dreams: Rainforest, the headlining debut exhibition at Anadol’s Los Angeles museum Dataland, is a highly ambitious attempt at using AI and immersive projection techniques in the service...
Mulaka Developed by the Mexican studio Lienzo, Mulaka is a 3D action-adventure game that focuses on Indigenous storytelling. Set in a poly-poly rendition of the landscapes of northern Mexico, the game...
Canopy: Evergreen While its predecessor, Canopy, focused on the lush, dense tropical rainforest, Evergreen shifts the focus to a temperate forest ecosystem. In a functioning ecosystem, plants and animals rely on each...
Habitactics Habitactics is a ‘serious’ educational puzzle game developed by Zachtronics as part of the Amplify digital curriculum (https://amplify.com/). Rather than adopting Zachtronics’ traditional complex engineering or programming mechanics, for which...
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet “My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future”. The British filmmaker and naturalist, David Attenborough, has devoted his career to educating people about nature and, more recently, the climate...
Dynamic Life (Minecraft) This mod for Minecraft, shared for free via Planet Minecraft and as a paid premium version via Patreon, explores how plants in Minecraft could grow, reproduce, die, and interact with...
Compost Pests and Cultivation (Stardew Valley) This mod adds three aspects to the game’s farming system that make both the in-game terrain (see Abraham 2024) and the representation of agriculture more realistic and immersive. 1) Pests...
Ruth’s Journey Ruth’s Journey is a short narrative ecogame developed in the Netherlands by Nifty Llama. The game shifts the player’s focus toward observation and documentation of natural phenomena, with bird watching,...
Fe In Fe, your objective is to save the environment from disbalance - teaching an important lesson in interconnectedness and new nature-relationships.
The Shivering Circle Howard David Ingham. DriveThruRPG, 2018. 3–5 players including a Game Master | Variable | Adult The Shivering Circle is an independent tabletop roleplaying game by Howard David Ingham, available on a...
Catan Klaus Teuber. Catan GmbH, 1995. 3–4 Players | 60-120 Mins | Age 10+ Catan, designed by Klaus Teuber, is a multiplayer game in which players compete to create the dominant...
Renature Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer. Art by Dennis Lohausen. Deep Print Games, 2020. 2-4 players | 45-60 minutes | Age 8+ Renature is a competitive board game where players plant...
Wingspan Elizabeth Hargrave. Art by Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo, Natalia Rojas, Greg May, Beth Sobel. Stonemaier Games, 2019. 1-5 players | 40-70 mins | Age 10+ Wingspan is an engine builder...
Scythe Jamey Stegmaier. Art by Jakub Rozalski. Stonemaier Games, 2016. 1-5 Players | 115 Minutes | Age 14+ Jamie Stegmaier’s Scythe is an engine-building game in which players take control of...
Rustling Leaves Paolo Mori. Art by Elli Jäger. Kosmos, 2020. 2-6 Players | 20 minutes | Age 8+ Rustling Leaves is a roll-and-write game set in a forest habitat with varying rules...
Planet Urtis Šulinskas. Art by Sabrina Miramon. Blue Orange, 2018. 2-4 players | 30- 45 minutes | Age 8+ Planet is a tactile game in which players build their own individual...
They are Hollows of Desolation Gordie Murphy. Art by Gordie Murphy. Itch.io, 2021. 1–5 players plus a Game Master | 2 hours+ | Adult They Are Hollows of Desolation is an independent tabletop roleplaying game...
Parks Henry Aubudon. Art by Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series. Keymaster Games, 2021. 1-5 players | 30-60 minutes | Age 10+ Parks is a resource management and travel board game where players...
Sleeping Gods Ryan Laukat. Art by Ryan Laukat. Red Raven Games, 2021. 1–4 players | Multiple sessions | Age 14+ Sleeping Gods is a story game, a genre of large-format games combining...
Orchard Anneliese Farkaschovsky. Art by Walter Matheis. HABA, 1986. 2-8 Players | 10 Minutes | Age 3-6 Anneliese Farkaschovsky’s Orchard is a collaborative game aimed at players aged between 3 and...
Ecosystem Matt Simpson. Art by Lindsay Falsone. Genius Games, 2019. 2-6 Players | 15-20 minutes | Age 10+ Ecosystem is a card-drafting game in which players must place cards in a...
