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Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)

Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)

2017·Andrew Doull, Phil Eklund, Jon Manker

1 - 4 players
90 - 180 min
Very heavy weight: Rules-dense, long sessions

From BoardGameGeek

Bios: Megafauna starts where the predecessor game Bios: Genesis left off, with the invasion of the land on the daybreak of the Phanerozoic eon. Starting as either a plant, mollusk, insect, or vertebral skeletal type, your flapping, paddling, and squawking carnivores and herbivores make a beachhead on one of the drifting continental plates in the Cambrian, Their struggle for terrestrial dominance may eventually include language-based consciousness. Although this achievement elevated a certain mammal species to notoriety, in your game things may occur differently. This second edition of Bios: Megafauna is an evolutionary descendant of American Megafauna but as a part of the Bios series of games it is linked to the game Bios: Genesis. It plays well independently but if you have both games you can let the end state of a game of Bios: Genesis affect the starting state of a game of Bios:Megafauna. A successor game, called Bios:Origins (which would be a descendant of Origin), is planned to cover the events of the Quaternary period including the rise of ideas and technology. -description from the publisher

Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)

Which Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition) video should I watch?

Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition) has 4 videos from 4 creators: 2 playthroughs, 1 unboxing and 1 other video. They date from 2022 to January 2025.

If you like it, try High Frontier 4 All, Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition and Pax Hispanica, also by Phil Eklund, or Crusader Kings, also by Jon Manker.

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Bios: Megafauna - Solo Earth Campaign PlaythroughPlaythrough2:06:38

Bios: Megafauna - Solo Earth Campaign Playthrough

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Loud N Board Gaming

The Hidden Secrets of the Ordovician Age49:13

The Hidden Secrets of the Ordovician Age

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Unboxing Bios: MegafaunaUnboxing2:05

Unboxing Bios: Megafauna

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Unboxing Board Games

Bios: Megafauna [2-player playthrough]Playthrough56:09

Bios: Megafauna [2-player playthrough]

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About Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)

From BoardGameGeek:

Bios: Megafauna starts where the predecessor game Bios: Genesis left off, with the invasion of the land on the daybreak of the Phanerozoic eon. Starting as either a plant, mollusk, insect, or vertebral skeletal type, your flapping, paddling, and squawking carnivores and herbivores make a beachhead on one of the drifting continental plates in the Cambrian, Their struggle for terrestrial dominance may eventually include language-based consciousness. Although this achievement elevated a certain mammal species to notoriety, in your game things may occur differently. This second edition of Bios: Megafauna is an evolutionary descendant of American Megafauna but as a part of the Bios series of games it is linked to the game Bios: Genesis. It plays well independently but if you have both games you can let the end state of a game of Bios: Genesis affect the starting state of a game of Bios:Megafauna. A successor game, called Bios:Origins (which would be a descendant of Origin), is planned to cover the events of the Quaternary period including the rise of ideas and technology. -description from the publisher

Designers

Andrew Doull, Phil Eklund, Jon Manker

Artist

Johanna Pettersson

Publisher

Ion Game Design

Categories

EnvironmentalPrehistoricTerritory Building

Mechanics

Area Majority / InfluenceModular Board & Variable SetupDraftingSimultaneous Action Selection
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