Bios Genesis Board Game [2nd edition]
$55.00
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From chemistry to landfall, your life begins in the primordial soup
Looking for a science board game where you create life from molecules to complexity? In Bios: Genesis, you’re not an organism, you’re the force of life itself. Form the first replicating molecules, endure natural disasters, and evolve through the stages of biological complexity. Create a bacteria, evolve through RNA, DNA and multicellularity to finally, if you play your cards right, maybe grab the victory, as a flat-worm
This scientific simulation game is as educational as it is challenging, offering solo, co-op, and competitive modes. Navigate early Earth’s chaos and guide life from spark to structure. Part of the great 7-game story arch of the Bios and High Frontier series.
How to play?
Each turn an event card is flipped, and catastrophes are resolved from left to right, determining the climate, stripping cubes from organisms and refugia placards, and creating new landforms that can harbor life. Any organisms which lose all of their cubes go extinct. The Event cards also dictate turn order and which refugia and mutation card piles are active at that turn.
Looking for a science board game where you create life from molecules to complexity? In Bios: Genesis, you’re not an organism, you’re the force of life itself. Form the first replicating molecules, endure natural disasters, and evolve through the stages of biological complexity. Create a bacteria, evolve through RNA, DNA and multicellularity to finally, if you play your cards right, maybe grab the victory, as a flat-worm
This scientific simulation game is as educational as it is challenging, offering solo, co-op, and competitive modes. Navigate early Earth’s chaos and guide life from spark to structure. Part of the great 7-game story arch of the Bios and High Frontier series.
How to play?
Each turn an event card is flipped, and catastrophes are resolved from left to right, determining the climate, stripping cubes from organisms and refugia placards, and creating new landforms that can harbor life. Any organisms which lose all of their cubes go extinct. The Event cards also dictate turn order and which refugia and mutation card piles are active at that turn.
Players: 1 - 4
Playtime: 60 - 120 min
Age: 14+
Complexity: 4.40
Designer: Phil Eklund
Artist: Karim Chakroun, Ron Miller
Playtime: 60 - 120 min
Age: 14+
Complexity: 4.40
Designer: Phil Eklund
Artist: Karim Chakroun, Ron Miller
Why should you purchase Bios: Genesis?
• Science-based gameplay from the origin of life: Start as chemistry and evolve toward consciousness
• Solo, co-op, or competitive modes: Adapt the experience to your preferred play style
• Challenging simulation mechanics: Realistic systems grounded in biology and chaos theory
• Part of the acclaimed Bios series: A perfect starting point for deep scientific strategy gaming
• Science-based gameplay from the origin of life: Start as chemistry and evolve toward consciousness
• Solo, co-op, or competitive modes: Adapt the experience to your preferred play style
• Challenging simulation mechanics: Realistic systems grounded in biology and chaos theory
• Part of the acclaimed Bios series: A perfect starting point for deep scientific strategy gaming
Cards
Oversized placards, for bacteria and refugia
Disks representing catalysts, enzymes, and antioxidants
Wooden cubes for manna & chromosomes
Wooden domes for bionts
Six-sided dice
Rules and historical background
Folding player aid
Box
Oversized placards, for bacteria and refugia
Disks representing catalysts, enzymes, and antioxidants
Wooden cubes for manna & chromosomes
Wooden domes for bionts
Six-sided dice
Rules and historical background
Folding player aid
Box
Downloadable rules for all board games
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Living rules and other files
administrated by respective game designer