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Terra Evolution

Tree of Life

Terra Evolution simulates the evolution of life on our planet, using Population cards, Species Cards, Continent cards and catastrophe cards. In your display you place planets with continent cards and species cards as well as card pile, population pile and fossil pile for extinct species. Population cards and Purchase cards are set out in the middle. You have several actions in your turn, in exact order, but need not implement all of them: In sequence you can play one card each for population, species, continent and catastrophe, then purchase a card or take one from the fossil pile and finally, do end-of-turn actions. All continents of a player must be different.

The game was released in 2013 in a new, revised edition, with some rule changes, for instance in victory conditions - instead of 10, 13 or 15 fossil points + at least mammal and one bird card in case of 4,3 or two players you now need 17, 20 or 22 points plus mammal and bird card. Card numbers have changed for the card varieties; there are fewer population cards, but a new kind of catastrophe - Virus, the price is 9 population cards and you can activate it with any number of population cards. The number of cards used for activation is the number of population loss for all other players, species and continents are not influenced by the Virus.

In this new edition, too, Terra Evolution remains a deck building game, albeit one with lots of interaction, especially due to the catastrophes. They offer many ways to acquire cards or to thoroughly interfere with an opponents' development; the topic has been nicely implemented and the game offers nice strategic possibilities.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Esa Wiik

Artist: Esa Wiik, Charles R. Knight

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Mindwarrior Games 2013

Web: www.mindwarriorgames.com

Genre: deck building

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en + fi

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition with revised victory condition

Includes Tree of Life expansion

Good family game, too

Topic nicely implemented

Low chance factor

Many tactical and strategic possibilities

Compares to:

Other deck building games

Other editions:

Finnish edition

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0