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Viral

Viruses attack!

You are a virus strain attacking a body and must mutate to spread into additional organs. You score points for collapsed organs or for controlling body zones; your strain is attacked by the body’s immune system and other virus strains. The organs of the patient are divided into Zones, each zone comprises between one and three organs. At the start, players in turn put one virus, shield side down, into an empty organ until each organ carries one virus; you hold zone cards and mutation cards for your virus.

For a round, all players simultaneously put down a zone and a mutation card face down and then resolve the cards in turn order - each action once per symbol, but not mandatory: Infect, attack, magnet, absorb, collapse. Then all repeat this for a second pair of zone card plus mutation card. Zones that you control give you victory points and advance on the research track. When the zones have been scored, an event card is drawn and resolved. Then, organs carrying a collapse marker do collapse, you score for majorities in these organs and then viruses without shield are removed from the organ. If you achieve maximum research status, you must remove all your viruses without shield from the board and your research status goes back to minimum. After the Tie-Breaker Table has been updated according to the current points status of players, you release absorbed viruses. After six such rounds a final scoring is resolved.

A game with an unusual topic, implemented with a touch of satire; the basic mechanisms of majorities and area control is modified by elegant control mechanisms; luck of the draw and tactic are nicely balanced! Lots of fun to play!

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 90+

Designer: Gil d’Orey, Antonio Sousa Lara

Artist: Mihajlo Dimitrievski

Price: ca.45 Euro

Publisher: Corax Games 2017

Web: www.corax-games.de

Genre: Area control

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en es it pt ru

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Cute, unusual topic

Topic very well implemented

Good mix of mechanisms

Lots of fun to play

Compares to:

Games using area control via majorities

Other editions:

Mesaboardgames/Mebo Games (en pt), Lavka (ru), MasQueOca (es), Move the Game (it)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0