Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)

2017 Layer by Layer

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Box 12.6 × 6.3 × 2.4 in (32 × 16 × 6 cm) · English edition, second printing (2019). Editions vary, check your copy before printing an insert.

Bios: Megafauna starts where the predecessor game Bios: Genesis left off, with the invasion of the land on the daybreak of the Phanerozoic eon. Starting as either a plant, mollusk, insect, or vertebral skeletal type, your flapping, paddling, and squawking carnivores and herbivores make a beachhead on one of the drifting continental plates in the Cambrian, Their struggle for terrestrial dominance may eventually include language-based consciousness. Although this achievement elevated a certain mammal species to notoriety, in your game things may occur differently. This second edition of Bios: Megafauna is an evolutionary descendant of American Megafauna but as a part of the Bios series of games it is linked to the game Bios: Genesis. It plays well independently but if you have both games you can let the end state of a game of Bios: Genesis affect the starting state of a game of Bios:Megafauna. A successor game, called Bios:Origins (which would be a descendant of Origin), is planned to cover the events of the Quaternary period including the rise of ideas and technology. —description from the publisher

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Andrew Doull , Phil Eklund , Jon Manker , designer

Johanna Pettersson , artist

Ion Game Design , publisher

#2135

BGG Rank ↗

7.5

Rating

4.5

Weight

1–4