Mutate. Adapt. Evolve into the dominant life on Earth. 

Looking for an evolution board game where you build a species and fight to survive prehistoric Earth? Bios: Megafauna is your board game then! Begin as a fragile species in a hostile world. You evolve across millions of years to become a dominant herbivore or carnivore, surviving shifting climates and colliding continents.  If you play your cards well you become the species with a language, ready to build Civilizations.

This deep evolutionary strategy game lets you develop organs, mutate traits, and carve out a niche in a dynamic biosphere. No two playthroughs are alike as tectonic movement reshapes the world. Part of the great 7-game story arch of the Bios and High Frontier series.

Why should you purchase Bios: Megafauna?

• True-to-science evolutionary gameplay: Mutate traits and evolve to adapt over millions of years

• Dynamic world with tectonic movement: The map changes constantly as continents collide and split

• Asymmetric species development: Play as carnivores or herbivores with unique evolutionary paths

• Deep strategy and replayability: No two games are alike in this survival-focused ecosystem

Game designer: Phil Eklund, Andrew Doull, Jon Manker

Artist: Karim Chakroun, Johanna Pettersson

Complexity: 4.50

How to play?

Starting as a phylum of either a plant1, mollusk, insect, or vertebral skeletal type, from one to four players make a beachhead on one of the four drifting cratons in the Ordovician. From a founding archetype species, you will sire squawking, flapping, and paddling species, represented by different shaped figures. Shapes are important because, for instance, a flying shape can only be preyed upon by another flying shape. Disperse these creeples across the weedy, forested, swamp, and sea biomes of your craton, or even to raft to new cratons. Each shape is a species, and each species has its own tableau. Mutation cards and organ cubes in this tableau enable the creeples of that shape to win in contests with other herbivores or carnivores

Content

• Cards
• Craton punchboards
• Craton placards
• Wooden creeples
• Wooden cubes
• Disks
• Dice 

Extras

Download

Game designer: Phil Eklund

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

• DOWNLOADABLE RULES Bios Megafauna
• Bios Megafauna 1 
• Bios Megafauna on Tabletop Simulator
• Board Game Geek Bios Megafauna 2nd Edition

Videos

• Bios: Megafauna 3p Play-through, Teaching, & Roundtable discussion by Heavy Cardboard
• Bios: Megafauna 2 [GAME 1] Intro & ERA1 Turn 01 by Ronnie Tucker 
• Bios: Megafauna — game preview at SPIEL '17 by BoardGameGeek
• Bios: Megafauna review Teaching Evolution Through Board Games by Darwin’s Game Night
• Bios: Megafauna review by Space-Biff
• How to Play Bios: Megafauna by Bits of Board