2020Phil Eklund, Justin Grey, Jon Manker, Dom Rougier
- Videos
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- Creators
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Bios: Mesofauna
2022Phil Eklund, Jon Manker
1 - 4 players
90 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
From BoardGameGeek
Bios:Mesofauna is an alternative Bios:Megafauna. That is, it starts and ends at the same time. 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. The setting is the same, only the animals are smaller. Bios:Mesofauna is a deliberate attempt to reach a wider audience than Bios:Megafauna, by stripping away about half the rules. Monsters, tools, horror plants, kiwi, haustorium, dark heart, Mars, Venus, shelves, blooms, Offshore, and Cheshire Cat have been dropped. More significantly, marine variant and size were also dropped, and these two decisions are worthy of more discussion. The two games integrate with each other making it possible to play a game with a combination of player roles from the two games. -description from the designer
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Which Bios: Mesofauna video should I watch?
Bios: Mesofauna has 4 videos from 4 creators: 1 review, 1 how-to-play guide, 1 playthrough and 1 other video. They date from 2022 to February 2023.
To learn the rules, start with "Bios Mesofauna - product video" by Ion Game Design, which runs 1 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Is BIOS MESOFAUNA a mess or a bless? A Review." by Phasing Player. To see it played, watch "BIOS: Mesofauna (2 players, Butterfly), TTS" by Pizin.
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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About Bios: Mesofauna
From BoardGameGeek:
Bios:Mesofauna is an alternative Bios:Megafauna. That is, it starts and ends at the same time. 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. The setting is the same, only the animals are smaller. Bios:Mesofauna is a deliberate attempt to reach a wider audience than Bios:Megafauna, by stripping away about half the rules. Monsters, tools, horror plants, kiwi, haustorium, dark heart, Mars, Venus, shelves, blooms, Offshore, and Cheshire Cat have been dropped. More significantly, marine variant and size were also dropped, and these two decisions are worthy of more discussion. The two games integrate with each other making it possible to play a game with a combination of player roles from the two games. -description from the designer
Designers
Phil Eklund, Jon Manker
Artist
Madeleine Fjäll
Publisher
Ion Game Design
Categories
Mechanics