Rewilders is a sandbox simulation game that promotes building, creativity, and strategy. By simulating a real movement that is sweeping around the planet, the movement to rewild vast regions of the Earth, by restoring damaged ecosystems to health and re-introducing keystone species like wolves, orangutans, koalas, and tigers. If Minecraft, Farmville, Tamagotchi, a science textbook, and an animal encyclopedia were thrown in a blender, you’d have something that looks and plays like Rewilders. The look of the game is highly stylized low-res (think a stylish Minecraft), conducive to the rapid creation of assets. As a Rewilder, your job is to bio-engineer a new wilderness area to support the species of your choice. You, as the player, will terraform and engineer your animal habitats. You’ll nurture your species, bio-engineer ecosystems, managing the flow of resources to improve the environment and ensure that the animals you’ve been tasked to protect and care, thrive. You will have to deal with predators, farms, and humans who come and disrupt animal life. On the other hand, you have at your disposal, game wardens, and renewable monetary resources to terraform and build. Your species will produce offspring who learn from their parents’ mistakes, which increases the complexity of the game. As you further succeed, more land is entrusted to you, becoming a faster and faster-paced game. On a deeper level, you’ll provide connectivity between wilderness areas by protecting or re-introducing apex predators and keystone species. Other Rewilders game objectives may require ecological restoration or wilderness engineering. The ultimate goal of a Rewilding game mission is to create ecosystems that then require passive management by limiting human control of ecosystems. Successful long-term Rewilding projects should be considered to have little-to-no human-based ecological management, as the successful reintroduction of keystone species creates a self-regulatory and self-sustaining stable ecosystem, with near pre-human levels of biodiversity. That’s the ultimate learning lesson that comes from fun and challenging gameplay. While the world has been transformed for humans, and many wilderness areas damaged and destroyed, a new deal for nature is in the works. And nature is coming back!