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Overview
Evolution. The Origin of species is a great example of a popular science game. The author managed to combine science with great playability. Animals of different species live and develop, receive new abilities and compete for food. To become a speedy carnivore or a big water dweller, it all depends on the habitat.d
So your main goal is to make a developed population of species that would fight for survival, and by the end of the game will dominate the planet!
The best thing is that Evolution can be used as an educational and very informative game because you can not only play a game and have fun, but also you are able to learn the basic concepts of the evolution of life and all living organisms on Earth. Of course, you can also play this board game with family or friends, and we promise that everyone will be deeply interested in the process of the creating new animals and protecting their lives.
This game will appeal to both people who enjoy casual board games (30 min to learn the rules is more than enough) and to hardcore players who plan complex strategies to win.
In the game your animals go through several stages. In the beginning primitive animals appear, then the player gives them different traits, helps them to adapt to the environment. Some animals are becoming predators; others learn to defend themselves from them. An animal can become a scavenger or grow fins and go back into the ocean.
The players then determine the amount of available food and begin to feed their animals.
If any animal is left hungry it is dying out of starvation. Each turn, players get new cards for their survived animals and game stages go over and over again. The basic idea of the game is that the more animals the player has, the harder they are to feed and protect, although, survived animals have more opportunities for development. In the end of the game the player with the most advanced and developed population will be a winner.
Even if the Evolution board game supposed to be played by 2-4 players, don’t worry! You can easily increase the number of players up to 8 by mixing two game sets. Also there are a lot of expansions for the game: Evolution Time to Fly, Evolution Continents and Evolution Variation Mini-Expansion (you can find out about expansions by clicking hereafter on them).
Our game is becoming more and more popular around the world; it already has several awards and nominations.
In December 2015 famous science magazine called “NATURE” had published the first article about board game ever! The article contained information about the Evolution game series. If you want to read this article you can find it in the “NATURE” magazine number 528 (192) from the 10th of December 2015.
At the beginning of June 2014 the “Evolution” tabletop game has been represented at the UK GAMES EXPO and won the bronze award in category “Family and Education”.
In 2013 Rightgames publishers participated in the Nuremberg International Toy Fair (Spielwarenmesse International Toy Fair Nürnberg) and “Evolution” board game has been nominated for the ToyAward. It was a first time ever when Russian board game was nominated. In the end of this page you can find a video from the ceremony.
In 2011 a “Spielbox” magazine had published an article, called “Red in Tooth and Claw”, which contained a huge Evolution Origin of Species game review. You can read this article in the “Spielbox” Issue#7, 2011.
What people say about our board game:
“Evolution is an outstanding example of an interesting game that reproduces contemporary scientific conceptions quite accurately. Schoolchildren or professors – everyone can play the game with a pleasure.”
Mikhail Gelfand
D. Sc. Biol., professor, member of Academia Europaea
In conclusion we can say that if you’re looking for a fun and educational board game – Evolution The Origin of Species is a perfect match!
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Basic game or expansion | Basic game |
Genre | Family, Strategy |
Sub-genre | Prehistoric, Educational, Card game, Animals |
Playing time | 30 — 60 |
Suggested age | 11 — 99 |
Number of players | 2 — 4 |
Contents | 84 cards (English text), 30 tokens, 2 dice, game rules (English, German, French language) |
Shipping weight | 0.36 kg |