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Bios Megafauna, english first edition, components
Before reading the rules, I honestly thought the animeeple in the image was a pig, lol!
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The box front for Bios Megafauna as it heads to the printer.
Boxing Day 2011  Buster seems to have adapted his own evolutionary advancement by sitting in the box - not sure I like those glowing eyes
Dino Meeples
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Playtesting Bios: Megafauna - the mammals were doing so well until the comet hit...
Mammal Meeples

Bios: Megafauna (2011)

Players
1–4
Best: 4
Playing time
60–120 min
Age
12+
6.83
Average rating
820
Ratings
3.70/5
Weight
#4533
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Designer:Phil Eklund
Artist:Tim Park
Publisher:Sierra Madre Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 6, Interaction 4, Complexity 7.4, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck6.0
Interaction4.0
Complexity7.4
Theme5.0

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

PrehistoricEnvironmentalAnimalsVariable Player PowersOpen DraftingSimulationArea Majority / InfluenceGrid MovementSolo / Solitaire GameEventsEnd Game BonusesSudden Death EndingVariable Set-upIncrease Value of Unchosen ResourcesSquare GridMovement PointsHidden Victory PointsMulti-Use CardsTags

Overview

In Bios: Megafauna, a reworking of Phil Eklund's own American Megafauna, players start as proto-dinosaurs or proto-mammals, starting in the post-holocaust world of the Permian catastrophe. Animals are tracked by dentition, size, aggressiveness, swiftness, browsing, grazing, burrowing, swimming, behavior, and insect-eating. Plants and animals that have gone extinct are collected in an area on the map called the tarpits. These tiles are distributed among the most populous players as victory points during four scoring rounds.

Players cope with intense competition and environmental changes by starting new species and mutating them. Create bizarre chimeras, from vegetarian velociraptors to flying dolphins. Establish subterranean civilizations, tame fire, or just be super-sexy.

Reimplements:

American Megafauna

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BIOS: Origins
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