カニの行進〜遅すぎた覚醒〜 (Kani no Koushin Ososugita Kakusei) 2018

カニの行進〜遅すぎた覚醒〜 (Kani no Koushin Ososugita Kakusei) is a Pandemic style co-operative game from Japan. The game is packaged in a large styrofoam box of the kind used for seafood, and the theme is based on the annual migration of Christmas Island red crabs.

Players are crabs, smart ones that try to help the other crabs survive the migration and spawn successfully. The game features lavish components, including lots of crabs and special bridges to help the crabs get over a busy road, and spawning grounds in the sea to save the crabs from being eaten by sharks.

The crabs spawn in large numbers on one board (the land), and relentlessly march across the land by the most direct path. This relates to player number, so with four players, four crabs appear and move four places each turn. The players must collect logs of one colour, to be able to steer them across the bridges and to the other board (the beach). There, they must be guided into spawning pens, which the players build. But the pens might be damaged by storms.

To win the game, three pens must be built and collect three red crabs each. But if five red crabs are killed, on the road or in the sea, the players lose.

The game has had updated rules and suggestions from the publisher after it was released. user summary