Denali is a tile-laying game of wilderness territories. Players occupy territories with their bears, wolves and rabbits. Each player also has a movable hunter as well as a fish. Over the course of the game, territories combine and result in conflicts among the animals claiming those territories. A player may also use his animals and hunter to attack, potentially emptying a region in order to occupy it on a later turn. The fish scores based on the regions it borders. Land animals score based on the size of their territory. The hunter is a tactical piece, but does not score.