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product_id: 514118877
title: "Inside Up Games Earth | Board Game of The Year 2023 | Ecosystem Building, Card Drafting, Action Selection | Create Amazing Natural Synergies | 1 to 6 Players | 45 to 90 Minute | Age 13+"
brand: "inside up games"
price: "A$132"
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# 45-90 min dynamic gameplay 350+ unique double-sided cards Eco-friendly FSC-certified materials Inside Up Games Earth | Board Game of The Year 2023 | Ecosystem Building, Card Drafting, Action Selection | Create Amazing Natural Synergies | 1 to 6 Players | 45 to 90 Minute | Age 13+

**Brand:** inside up games
**Price:** A$132
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🌍 Build your island, build your legacy — don’t miss the board game of the year!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Inside Up Games Earth | Board Game of The Year 2023 | Ecosystem Building, Card Drafting, Action Selection | Create Amazing Natural Synergies | 1 to 6 Players | 45 to 90 Minute | Age 13+ by inside up games
- **How much does it cost?** A$132 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.au](https://www.desertcart.com.au/products/514118877-inside-up-games-earth-board-game-of-the-year-2023)

## Best For

- inside up games enthusiasts

## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Versatile Play Modes:** Supports Solo, Team, and Competitive formats to fit your mood and squad size.
- • **Sustainable & Stylish:** Beautifully designed components made with FSC-certified materials for eco-conscious gamers.
- • **Simultaneous Engagement:** Active player’s major action triggers minor benefits for all, eliminating downtime and maximizing player interaction.
- • **Immersive Ecosystem Building:** Craft a vibrant 4x4 island tableau with plants, habitats, and fauna for deep thematic immersion.
- • **Endless Strategic Replayability:** Over 25,000 unique starting setups keep every game fresh and challenging.

## Overview

Inside Up Games Earth is the 2023 Board Game of the Year, offering 1-6 players a rich ecosystem-building experience with over 350 unique cards and 25,000+ starting setups. Featuring simultaneous play, multiple game modes, and eco-friendly materials, it delivers 45-90 minutes of strategic, highly replayable fun that’s perfect for millennial professionals seeking engaging, socially interactive gameplay with a sustainable edge.

## Description

Over millions of years of evolution and adaptation, the flora and fauna of this unique planet have grown and developed into amazing life-forms, creating beautiful symbiotic ecosystems and diverse habitats. It's time to create your island: a 4x4 tableau of self-supporting growth, expansion and supply where even the cards you don't need become compost for future gain. OVERVIEW: Earth is an open-world engine builder for 1 to 5 players with simple rules and countless strategic possibilities. With its encyclopedic nature and a near-infinite number of tableau combinations, every single game will allow you to discover new synergies and connections, just as our vast and fascinating world allows us to do! Players will create a self-supporting engine of growth, expansion, and supply by drafting from a deck of over 364 unique cards and strategically placing them in their tableau. STARTING THE GAME - The game begins before the starting hand has even been drafted. Players will receive an Island, Climate, and Ecosystem card during set-up. Using these double-sided cards, each player sows their strategy by selecting one side of the card to place face-up in their play area. The combination of these three cards introduces asymmetry to the game by providing variable starting resources, bonus abilities, and unique end-game scoring objectives. ON YOUR TURN - On their turn, the active player will choose one of four different actions, reaping their major benefits, while all other players welcome the minor benefit. Subsequently, all players activate any cards on their player-board, and in their tableau, which match the color of the chosen action. Players continue taking actions, arranging their Island, sowing Plants and developing Terrains to attract elusive Fauna, and unlock the scoring bonuses of diverse Ecosystems. TRIGGERING END GAME - Once a player has added a sixteenth card to their 4×4 tableau, they earn a completion bonus and trigger the end of the game. All players will tally the victory points they earned from completing Ecosystems, reaching Fauna objectives, Composting cards, gaining Plant cubes and Growth pieces, for their Plant and Terrain values and for Events played. The player with the most victory points wins! Game Playtime (min): 45. Number of Players: 5.

Review: Looks great, plays great - Very much enjoying this game. So far have played about six times, two player with just my wife and me. We love board games and have recently been playing games like Targi, Living Forest, Wyrmspan, River of Gold and a few similar games - so you get a feel of what we like. This game is right at the top for us. Great engine building and we love being able to take action on others turn aspect. The card variety is great and we love how there are so many ‘good’ cards that provide benefits. Activating a color towards the end is a lot of fun as you take in resources. The public goals are fun and keep you strategizing. I typically forget a couple along the way but there’s a lot to think about, which for me is a good thing Rules are very solid and learning curve is good, although always good to watch a play thru on YouTube with any new game these days to save time and instruction pain It looks very good from the box to the card to the player work places. The components are above average. Id like to upgrade a couple like dirt tokens and leaf markers but they are not bad by any means. Overall a very solid game and one I believe will stay in the rotation for many months and beyond. Thursday’s are now Earth day at our house to ensure at least one play a week, but hope for more.
Review: Like Wingspan, Better than Terraforming Mars - I love board games and I own and play hundreds each year. This one is great. Let me give you some details without boring you, then some pros and cons and my overall rating: Gameplay If you have played Wingspan and Terraforming Mars(TM), then this game will feel very similar. Although I think it is superior to TM and more friendly to new gamers. In EARTH you are in charge of an island and you are attempting to be the player to create the best symbiotic and efficient island. Each turn the active player will choose one of four actions. S/he will perform the main action and all other players will perform the secondary action. Thus, you are always engaged in the game with almost no down time. You continue to take turns until one person has completed a 4×4 grid of cards. You get points in so many different ways that each game is VERY different and unique. TONS of replayability! Most points wins the game. I have played a couple of times with four people and it takes us about 90 minutes to play. PROS - Very thematic. - Beautiful artwork. - Easy to learn and teach. - Super fun (even when you lose... I guess). - Tons of replayability. - Always actively gaming with something to do on everyone's turn. - Player boards and iconography are really good so you can easily understand cards/actions. CONS - Can create a little AP (analysis paralysis) in some people and slow game down a bit. - Not enough opportunity to play the game more... I really honestly don't have much negative to say! Overall Rating: Two thumbs up. 9.5 out of 10 BGG Rating I am fully supportive of you purchasing this game... you will enjoy it.

## Features

- SIMULTANEOUS PLAY: Every turn the active player chooses a major benefit, all other players gain a minor benefit.
- 350 plus UNIQUE CARDS: With over 350 unique cards, some of which are even double sided, Earth offers endless replayability with over 25,000 starting setups.
- MULTIPLE WAYS TO PLAY: With Solo, Team, and Competitive variants, you can choose your desired way to play.
- BEAUTIFUL GROWTH: Watch as your Island unfolds before you, adding unique plants, habitats and ecosystems in order to support the wildlife around you.
- ENVIRONMENTALLY MADE: We were sure to use materials that are FSC qualified, and tried our best to reduce environmental impact on every copy made.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0BWS9R9TZ |
| Best Sellers Rank | #58,462 in Toys & Games ( See Top 100 in Toys & Games ) #1,548 in Board Games (Toys & Games) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (435) |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 4.55 pounds |
| Item model number | IUG011 |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Impressions |
| Manufacturer recommended age | 0 - 8 years |
| Product Dimensions | 11.8 x 11.8 x 3 inches |
| Release date | April 22, 2023 |

## Images

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: Is this game out of print? I noticed it's much higher than MSRP.**
A: I can’t imagine it is out of print already. The game just became available in the last few months from a Kickstarter.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Looks great, plays great
*by S***D on July 19, 2025*

Very much enjoying this game. So far have played about six times, two player with just my wife and me. We love board games and have recently been playing games like Targi, Living Forest, Wyrmspan, River of Gold and a few similar games - so you get a feel of what we like. This game is right at the top for us. Great engine building and we love being able to take action on others turn aspect. The card variety is great and we love how there are so many ‘good’ cards that provide benefits. Activating a color towards the end is a lot of fun as you take in resources. The public goals are fun and keep you strategizing. I typically forget a couple along the way but there’s a lot to think about, which for me is a good thing Rules are very solid and learning curve is good, although always good to watch a play thru on YouTube with any new game these days to save time and instruction pain It looks very good from the box to the card to the player work places. The components are above average. Id like to upgrade a couple like dirt tokens and leaf markers but they are not bad by any means. Overall a very solid game and one I believe will stay in the rotation for many months and beyond. Thursday’s are now Earth day at our house to ensure at least one play a week, but hope for more.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Like Wingspan, Better than Terraforming Mars
*by K***E on May 11, 2023*

I love board games and I own and play hundreds each year. This one is great. Let me give you some details without boring you, then some pros and cons and my overall rating: Gameplay If you have played Wingspan and Terraforming Mars(TM), then this game will feel very similar. Although I think it is superior to TM and more friendly to new gamers. In EARTH you are in charge of an island and you are attempting to be the player to create the best symbiotic and efficient island. Each turn the active player will choose one of four actions. S/he will perform the main action and all other players will perform the secondary action. Thus, you are always engaged in the game with almost no down time. You continue to take turns until one person has completed a 4×4 grid of cards. You get points in so many different ways that each game is VERY different and unique. TONS of replayability! Most points wins the game. I have played a couple of times with four people and it takes us about 90 minutes to play. PROS - Very thematic. - Beautiful artwork. - Easy to learn and teach. - Super fun (even when you lose... I guess). - Tons of replayability. - Always actively gaming with something to do on everyone's turn. - Player boards and iconography are really good so you can easily understand cards/actions. CONS - Can create a little AP (analysis paralysis) in some people and slow game down a bit. - Not enough opportunity to play the game more... I really honestly don't have much negative to say! Overall Rating: Two thumbs up. 9.5 out of 10 BGG Rating I am fully supportive of you purchasing this game... you will enjoy it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fun and Enjoyable Strategy Game
*by F***N on April 4, 2025*

This game appears complicated at first because of all of the things you have to get to know about it, but once you’ve played a couple games it is really simple to understand and a lot of fun. Played it over and over again because there are so many cards that you get the enjoyment out of each game (highly replayable and recommended for new-to-strategy gamers).

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