2020Phil Eklund, Justin Grey, Jon Manker, Dom Rougier
- Videos
- 99
- Creators
- 37
Mainly how-to-play
1 - 5 players30 - 240 minVery heavy weight
Neanderthal
2015Phil Eklund
1 - 3 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
From BoardGameGeek
It's 43,000 BC in Ice Age Europe, the dawn of modern man. In Neanderthal, you are one of three human species: Archaic, Neanderthal, or Cro-Magnon. Assign your males to hunt Pleistocene megafauna, but try to avoid being eaten by predators. Assign your women for teaching your children vocabulary, leading to cognitive fluidity in the next generation and to a tribalistic culture. Specialize your elders for fire, war, big game, inventions, or animal domestications. Choose between three mating strategies: promiscuous, harems, or pair bonding. Victory depends on which strategy you choose, and may include your hunters, elders, women, vocabulary, trophies, inventions, or domesticated animals. At this point, the players have developed to the point where the companion game Greenland begins, so you can flow one game into another seamlessly.
Which Neanderthal video should I watch?
Neanderthal has 2 videos from 2 creators: 1 playthrough and 1 unboxing. They date from 2023 to February 2025.
If you like it, try High Frontier 4 All, Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition, Pax Hispanica and Bios: Origins (Second Edition), also by Phil Eklund.
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About Neanderthal
From BoardGameGeek:
It's 43,000 BC in Ice Age Europe, the dawn of modern man. In Neanderthal, you are one of three human species: Archaic, Neanderthal, or Cro-Magnon. Assign your males to hunt Pleistocene megafauna, but try to avoid being eaten by predators. Assign your women for teaching your children vocabulary, leading to cognitive fluidity in the next generation and to a tribalistic culture. Specialize your elders for fire, war, big game, inventions, or animal domestications. Choose between three mating strategies: promiscuous, harems, or pair bonding. Victory depends on which strategy you choose, and may include your hunters, elders, women, vocabulary, trophies, inventions, or domesticated animals. At this point, the players have developed to the point where the companion game Greenland begins, so you can flow one game into another seamlessly.
Designer
Phil Eklund
Artists
Karim Chakroun, Phil Eklund
Publisher
Sierra Madre Games
Mechanics
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