Many animals are crisscrossing the Australian outback. To control where they're going in Outback Crossing, players lay down tiles one at a time onto a 5 x 5 grid (6 x 6 for five and six players), claim ownership of different "trails", and change things around with the action tiles. At the end of the game, single tiles won't score — except for the Tasmanian Devil — and the more tiles of one kind you have on a trail, the better the score; one per species on a trail also score very well. The Tasmanian Devil has a special value and scores even higher.

2-6 players, ages 8