• Bios: Mesofauna board game - 3D Box Cover illustration
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Game components (playing cards, tokens, and placards) layed out in the playing postion
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Playing tokens arranged inplaying positions
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Overview of game components. Including, Playing cards, fossil chit tokens, and rule book
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Book ! and Book 2 gameplay booklets
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Expanded view of Hormone and Organ cards
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Organ cards and fossil chits arranged in gameplay positions
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Expanded view of leech organs card
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Craton punchout accompanied by fossil chits and yellow flower tokens
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Species cards and mutaton cards layed out
  • Bios: Mesofauna board game - Organized view of different game play cards, pieces, and dice
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Bios Mesofauna Board Game

$55.00 USD
$55.00 USD
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How to play

How to play?

The game starts with the invasion of the land about 450 million years ago and is an Alternate 2nd Game in the Bios Trilogy. It follows the same sort of Achterbahn environment, same climate change, same or similar creeples, same VP, same tiles, same card colors, same cratons and drift, same basic and Achterbahn games, same catastrophes, same greenhouse, cloudiness, and oxygen. Same terrestrial settings. All of these are production and development advantages. The setting is the same, only the animals are smaller

Start with an archetype species, and evolve into up to 6 more swimming, flying, burrowing, armored, or parasite species.

Build a portrait of each species that gives you victory points according to its pheromones and population. 

Use a diceless contest mechanic to see which carnivore, herbivore, or parasite is the fittest to survive in a particular pollinator, herbivore, or carnivore niche.

Content

Content

  • Rulebook
  • Mutation cards
  • Player aid cards
  • Species cards
  • Cratons punchouts
  • Fossil chits
  • Organ cubes
  • Dice
  • Yellow flower tokens

Extras

Extras

Download

Game designer: Phil Eklund

Living rules and other files, administrated by respective game designer.

Videos

 


(NOTE pictures only drafts and might not be included in the final game. Please be aware that changes in shipping dates may occur due to this crazy world we live in. We promise to do all we can to make this wonderful game available as fast as we possibly can!)


Expected reprint Q4, 2025

Discover the Wonders of the Cambrian Period with Bios: Mesofauna

Step back in time to the Cambrian period, a pivotal era marked by the rapid evolution of complex life forms. In Bios: Mesofauna, you’ll explore the incredible story of arthropods, the pioneers that ventured from the oceans to dominate the land. As you navigate this dynamic ecosystem, you will engage with various species, including insects, arachnids, and crustaceans, each with unique abilities and adaptations.

Experience the challenges and triumphs of life during this explosive chapter of Earth’s history, where you’ll strategize, evolve, and survive in a world teeming with biodiversity. Can you ensure the success of your species in a rapidly changing environment?


Game designer: Phil Eklund, Jon Manker

Artist: Madeleine Fjäll

Complexity: 3.80