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Designing the mutant bug is half the fun

Insecta (1992)

Players

1–7

Best: 1

Playing time

90–300 min

Age

12+

6.27

Average rating

140

Ratings

2.74/5

Weight

#15162

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Alternate names:Insecta Mutant Kit

Designer:Phil Eklund, Neal Sofge

Artist:Phil Eklund

Publisher:Sierra Madre Games +1 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck7.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity5.5

Theme8.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

Insecta is a game of bug-to-bug conflict and combat. Players design a mutant bug team and with them attempt to escape from "The Hive," filled with real-world arthropods and controlled by an adversarial "Hivemaster" player (somewhat akin to a dungeonmaster). The game comes with 16 mutant bug displays (6 are "starting" displays, the others are swapped in as the bugs mutate), design cards, mapsheets, minature bugs and counters.

A limited reissue of the game, The Mutant Kit, was published in 2000 without rubber bugs or Hive cards, creating a modular game system that could be combined with other expansions.

Expanded by:

Insecta: Rainforest Insecta: Trilobite Insecta: Desert Hive