Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Low interaction
Player-count sensitive
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Extend a winding river through the wilderness, enclose protected valleys, and match native wildlife to scoring goals in a solo card puzzle.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
River Wild is an eighteen-card solo spatial puzzle. Each turn, choose one of three available river cards and extend the water downstream from its source, using rivers and mountains to enclose protected valleys. Wildlife icons inside those valleys score only when they align with the available goal cards, so every placement must balance landscape continuity with future combinations. The puzzle ends when all cards are used or no legal extension remains.
