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Bios: Genesis (Second Edition)
60m - 120m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 12+
Card drafting games are games in which players pick cards from a limited subset, such as a common pool, to gain some advantage (immediate or longterm) or to assemble hands of cards that are used to meet objectives within the game.
Card Drafting
Dice rolling in a game can be used for many things, randomness being the most obvious. Dice can also be used as counters. The dice themselves can be unique and different sizes, shapes and colors to represent different things.
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AndysBloodbath
I like it. This is not a game for those that are scared of long words or science. Indeed Phil Eklund pulls no punches in explaining, at length, exactly what scientific phenomena each card or action represents. I learnt 4 whole new words in the first page of the rulebook alone. Once you battle past the blinding scientific parlance and sit down with all the pieces out to figure out how it all comes together, what you actually have is quite a fun game of stacking odds in your favour, hoping that the next fistful of dice thrown at the table will result in you creating life, and then all subsequent turns involve you trying your damndest to keep the damn things alive. What the game mimics very well is the improbable and very lucky sequences of events that led to life evolving from the promordial soup. Not to mention the very difficult struggle that early celular life had, in order to not die out in very short order. You have rows of biomes that gradually become "habitable". You add bionts to the places that you think look the best and throw the dice, 6's are bad, 1's are good. If all goes well then you have created life! Congratulations! With further luck, dice rolling, and the addition of a few organs, we step from micro organism to macro organism, which is easier to keep alive. Very much recommended for those with a keen interest in Biology, Astronomy, or simply the Genesis of life on Earth. As a little bonus, the creatures you create form the basis of the starting creatures of the next game in the series, Bios: Megafauna
Adanedhel
Introducción al mundo de BIOS, curioso uso de las fichas, y los dados. Recomendable a quien le encante la "simulación" con éstos temas. Visualmente muy conseguido.
Alan Stern
Essentially a stock/investment game. Since this is an Eklund design, there are all sorts of random elements that push-pull on things and symbology is rampant. It's pretty dry, but then it is a simulation of the development of cellular life. I'd probably rate this lower (6) except that it's somewhat thematic and it can serve as the precursor to a game of Bios: Megafauna. I like the fact that Eklund will have a series of 4 games that flow together, one after the other, if players are that insane (which I am). NO REGRETS! MORE EKLUND!