I Heart Manatees

What is I Heart Manatees

Play as a conservation expert! Your job, build your own manatee habitat, one tile at a time. Rescue manatees from the ocean, adding them to your habitat. Add their favorite food and fishy friends to score points. Watch out, other players can sabotage your habitat with the menacing bull shark…oh the hu-manatee! Keep your manatees happy to score points and win!

Players take turns choosing one of four ocean tiles and placing it in their habitat. Which column you take a tile from determines the special action you get to take, but the icons on the tiles themselves will determine how many points you get. Special actions include taking photo cards for bonus points, adding manatees to your habitat, moving manatees to better positions, and unleashing the bull shark in another player's habitat to steal their manatees.

At the end of the game, you'll score points based on how many manatees you have and how many completed food icons are nearby for them to eat. The player with the happiest manatees wins!

Game details

Players

2–4

Age

+10

Duration

40 min

Difficulty

—

Type

Board game

Year

2024

Mechanics

Tile Placement

Categories

Environmental · Nautical

Designer

Eric M. Lang

Publisher

Buffalo Games