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Sep 12, 2026·How to play·34:10·1455·Watch on YouTube

ORGANISM - gameplay!

Elephant Laboratories

Elephant Laboratories

Watch “ORGANISM - gameplay!,” a how-to-play guide for Organism from Elephant Laboratories on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Elephant Laboratories on YouTube:

How do you play ORGANISM? Why do you play ORGANISM? What goes through the head of a human being who plays ORGANISM? Join our stream of consciousness journey through the game of interacting lifeforms. This is my first gameplay video. Let me know if you want more? When introducing the pieces I say "This is a MOVER" very confidently and that is definitely the EATER (5 points) - I call it an eater everywhere else. very unfortunate. Also drinking the tea is more dramatic than I realized. All in all lessons were learned, hopefully people find this useful (!) let me know how it can be improved.

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Organism

Organism

2027·Ryan Spangler

1 - 6 players
20 - 90 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

About Organism, from BoardGameGeek:

Your new awareness emerges all at once. You know immediately, before you even recognize your own existence, an all-consuming hunger. Hunger and also.... fear? Because somehow you know, you are not alone. Beneath these immediate drives lies something deeper, a spark, a joy, a hope. The glee, the audacity to split, to drive a wedge in your very self and become two. And through two, infinity. Organism is a game of growth, multiplication, and struggle. Wielding the simple actions of EAT / GROW / MOVE / CIRCULATE the minimal ruleset is maximally integrated and generates a tight yet boundless decision space. Amplified by a set of mutation cards which expand the rules in countless subtle and not-so-subtle ways, it is really a family of related games in a single box that can never be truly exhausted. Each player controls an Organism composed of three elements: EAT, MOVE, and GROW. In the beginning, each organism contains one of each element, which is a requirement for your organism to live. If an organism lacks one of these three elements at the end of the turn, it dies. Players take turns either eating food, moving into new positions (possibly coming into contact with other organisms or even dividing into separate organisms), growing new elements, or circulating food within their organism. When any elements of opposing organisms meet, the conflict is resolved by removing one or more elements from the board. You win the game if you capture a certain number of the opposing player's elements (or just eliminate them entirely from the board), or if you attain three separate organisms at the end of your turn, in which case they are well on their way to spreading across the globe. -description from the publisher

Designer

Ryan Spangler

Artist

Wyn Tiedmers

Publisher

Elephant Laboratories

Categories

Abstract StrategyAnimals

Mechanics

Action PointsNetwork and Route Building
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Organism

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