Hamster Park
Requirements
Description
Hamster Park is a competitive card game for 1 to 4 players. Use 50 unique park features—like rollercoaster, museum, or ice cream parlor—to make a different park each game! The objective is to have the most fun park by the end of the game.
First-Time Player Tutorial
Print the rules here: rules.pdf
Gameplay
Hamster Park is a tile-laying game, where you attach cards together to create an amusement park for hamsters. Each card has unique abilities and effects that may alter your park's three core attributes: money, energy, and fun! By adding more hamsters to your park and stationing them strategically, you can also unlock additional bonuses.
Manage your resources, grow your hamster population, and build the best park you can!
Is it for me?
Hamster Park is designed to be played in under an hour, with rules simple enough to pick up in a couple minutes. However, there is surprising depth, with each card behaving in unique and interconnected ways.
There is no hidden information in Hamster Park, only each player's own strategies remain secret. This allows for many coachable moments, where players can advise and help one another if desired.
Due to the amount of reading required, the game is recommended for children 12 and up, but many precocious kids under that age will have no problems picking it up.
Check it out and let me know what you think!
In the box
Each game comes with:
Deck of 50 unique park features
4 park entrance cards
4 score keeping cards
75 hamster tokens
Rules pamphlet
The game is English only at this time. The art for the game was designed with MagicaVoxel.
Rulesbook
Print the rules here: rules.pdf
Check out the rules below:
Components
| Component | Quantity | Photo |
|---|---|---|
| Euro Square Deck | 1 deck of 54 cards |  |
| Document | 2 |  |
| Jumbo Deck | 1 deck of 4 cards |  |
| Small Pro Box | 1 |  |
| Ice Cube, 8mm, Transparent, Orange | 75 |  |
Vitals
| Average Rating | 9 reviews |
|---|---|
| Publish Date | March 28, 2019 |
| Edition | First |
| Department | Games |
| Tags | Fantasy Empire Building Modern / Present Casual Gamer Engine Building |
| More Info | Hamster Park web site |
Why buy this?
- 50 unique features to add to your park
- Colorful and vibrant "voxel" illustrations
- Endless strategies and possibilities
Drew Gomez Games
Notes
- This game contains a premium upgrade called UV Coating that makes the printed components more durable.
- This game contains a premium upgrade where the printed components will be embossed with a linen texture.
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Ratings and Reviews
Learnable within 5 minutes! You will have to manage your money to buy the needed tiles to gather 'fun' points to win the game but those money tiles often cost fun points themselves. There is also the ...
Simple, fun and reasonably fast played. Good to play with board game skeptics
Hamster Park is a cute, fun, competitive, and easy to learn game. Each new game is completely different than the last. If you enjoy seeing your opponents squirm, than analyze their parks, and swoop th...
Hamster Park is a lively, entertaining game that's easy to pick up and hard to put down. The high quality voxel art is reminiscent of Rollercoaster Tycoon, and it's extremely satisfying to build the m...
Hamster Park is something really special – one of those games that you can understand instantly but enjoy playing over and over again. And games end up being the perfect length, around an hour – so it...
I play an embarrassing amount of games.... but I'm not embarrassed to say this is now a go to game for my friends. It's super fun, cute, and has good variability so each game is unique. Can't wait to ...
As someone working in the games industry, I see a loooooot of mediocre boardgames, and this is not one of them. From our very first playthrough, this became an instant hit with my sunday boardgame cre...
