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Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)

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Published
2017
Players
1–4
Play time
90–180 min
Reach
Niche
Evaluations
0
Themes:
EnvironmentalPrehistoricTerritory Building
Mechanics:
Area controlDraftingAction programming

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Main mechanics explained

  • Area control: Presence on the map decides who scores.
  • Drafting: You pick from a shared pool and pass the rest along.
  • Action programming: You commit to moves in advance and watch them play out.
Full publisher description

Bios: Megafauna starts where the predecessor game Bios: Genesis left off, with the invasion of the land on the daybreak of the Phanerozoic eon. Starting as either a plant, mollusk, insect, or vertebral skeletal type, your flapping, paddling, and squawking carnivores and herbivores make a beachhead on one of the drifting continental plates in the Cambrian, Their struggle for terrestrial dominance may eventually include language-based consciousness. Although this achievement elevated a certain mammal species to notoriety, in your game things may occur differently. This second edition of Bios: Megafauna is an evolutionary descendant of American Megafauna but as a part of the Bios series of games it is linked to the game Bios: Genesis . It plays well independently but if you have both games you can let the end state of a game of Bios: Genesis affect the starting state of a game of Bios:Megafauna . A successor game, called Bios:Origins (which would be a descendant of Origin ), is planned to cover the events of the Quaternary period including the rise of ideas and technology. description from the publisher

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