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Evolution

Contintents und Random Mutations

You breed your own species and must make do with different amounts of food. Each round comprises the phases Development, Food supply, Food and Extinction plus drawing cards. Each phase is resolved by each player. Or development you play cards, using them either as animal or as characteristics. Food is determined by dice roll. To feed you take one food marker per round. If animals are not sufficiently fed they become extinct, including all their characteristics, and are discarded. When all cards are gone, you score for surviving animals and for each of their characteristics, with bonuses for special characteristics.

The Continents expansion introduces three different locations representing shards of Pangaea - Gondwana, Laurasia and Tethys - with their own food basis; species from one area develop independently, cannot be fed with food from another area but can - with the new trait Migration - migrate from one area into another. Neoplasm is also new, it is played on animals of other players and effects single traits; when an animal has no other traits available it dies.

In a round of the stand-alone variant Random Mutations you play the phases of Development, Climate, Food and Extinction. Cards are used as an animal or as a new trait or to raise population size. For Climate dice are rolled and determine food, parasites and shelter; animals die from parasites and hunger.

Still a game with lots of tactics, somewhat mitigated by the luck of the dice rolls, presenting more choices and variation for the very nicely and interestingly presented topic. Random Mutations also works as an expansion for Evolution.

Players: 2-4

Age: 12+

Time: 60+

Designer: Dmitry Knorre

Artist: Sergey Machin

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Rightgames / RBG 2013/2014

Web: www.rightgames.com

Genre: Kart placement game

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it ru

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Comments:

Rare and interesting topic

More and varied possibilities

Can be combined with Evolution Time to Fly

Compares to:

Bios Megafauna, Evolution core game

Other editions:

Russian edition

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0