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Official box cover from Sierra Madre Games. Publication date: October 2016.
Bios Genesis shown in the 4-player setup. The soup is the bowl in the upper right. The column of 4 placards are the refugia where life might start on Earth or in space. RNA mutations are left of the placards.  The microscope is for reading flavor text.
RNA (single strand) and DNA (double strand) mutations
View of game boxes for Bios Genesis, image from Sierra Madre Games.
Box bottom for Bios Genesis. From Sierra Madre Games.
These placards show refugia where life can begin, also the autocatalytic cycles that the refugia support.
Examples of events in the game's three eons.
Landforms where life can begin.  They are considered active if geophysical vehicles (meteors, tsunamis, hypercanes, etc.) are operating to transport their chemistries to other landforms.
Bios: Genesis. Snails and Earthworms.
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Bios: Genesis (2016)

Players
1–4
Best: 3
Playing time
60–120 min
Age
12+
7.06
Average rating
1,845
Ratings
4.38/5
Weight
#2459
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Designer:Phil Eklund
Artist:Ron Miller
Publisher:Sierra Madre Games +2 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 10, Interaction 7, Complexity 8.8, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck10.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity8.8
Theme5.0

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Overview

Description from the publisher:

In Bios: Genesis, one to four players start as organic compounds shortly after Earth's formation, represented by up to four Biont tokens. The Amino Acids command Metabolism, the lipids create cells, the pigments control energy absorption and storage, and the nucleic acids control templated replication. Their goal is a double origin of life: first as Autocatalytic Life (a metabolic cycle reproducing, yet not replicating, its own constituents), and the second as Darwinian Life (an Organism using a template to replicate in an RNA world). Players can play cooperative, competitive, or solitaire.

Notes designer Phil Eklund, "This subject is the most difficult and ambitious I have ever attempted, and it has taken many years to get it to work right." With Bios: Genesis, Bios: Megafauna, and Bios: Origins (Second Edition), Eklund takes players through almost the whole breadth and scope of life on Earth.

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