Dreamwood is a 3-6 player game with a playing time of 15-25 minutes.
Each player represents an animal species. During the round they will secretly place their workers on their player board to advance on 5 different tracks, that represents the progress of each specie.
The tracks represents food, offspring, exploration, shelter and leisure.
Food track awards one time (x2) bonusses to worker placements.
Offspring track awards additional workers.
Exploration track awards a random income each round.
Shelter track awards secret endgame bonusses.
Leisure track awards immediate random advances on tracks.
At the end of the game players receive victory points depending on their position on each track (relative to the other players)
The player with the most victory points wins.
—description from the designer