Bios: Genesis 2 (Kickstarter Special)
Board Game Geek Rating: 5.90
Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 7.34
Players: 1 to 4
Published: 2018
Content Notes: Kickstarter Edition of Bios: Genesis 2 Board Game. Includes core game and all met stretch goals. Please note: unless otherwise stated paid add ons from the Kickstarter Campaign are not included.
Contents:
🌎 60 Cards illustrated by Karim Chakroun with 100 extra commissioned artworks
🌎 16 oversized placards, for bacteria and refugia
🌎 48 disks representing catalysts, enzymes, and antioxidants
🌎 64 wooden cubes for manna & chromosomes
🌎 16 wooden domes for bionts (4 more than 1st edition)
🌎 12 six-sided dice, used for autocatalytic and Darwin rolls
🌎 Rules and historical background, 68 pages
🌎 Folding player aid
🌎 Box (5″ X 5″ X 1.75″)
Description from the publisher:
In Bios: Genesis, one to four players start as organic compounds shortly after Earth’s formation, represented by up to three Biont tokens. The Amino Acids command Metabolism, the lipids create cells, the pigments control energy absorption and storage, and the nucleic acids control templated replication. Their goal is a double origin of life: first as Autocatalytic Life (a metabolic cycle reproducing, yet not replicating, its own constituents), and the second as Darwinian Life (an Organism using a template to replicate in an RNA world). Players can play cooperative, competitive, or solitaire.
Notes designer Phil Eklund, “This subject is the most difficult and ambitious I have ever attempted, and it has taken many years to get it to work right.” With Bios: Genesis, Bios: Megafauna, and Origins: How We Became Human, Eklund takes players through almost the whole breadth and scope of life on Earth.
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