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Insecta

#1246BGG ↗

1992 · 1-7 players · 300min · weight 2.74 · 140 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
1246
Name
Insecta
Year
1992
Rank
14689
Min players
1
Max players
7
Playing time
300
Min playtime
90
Max playtime
300
Avg weight
2.7368
Num weights
19
Bayes avg
5.53962
Average
6.27536
Users rated
140
Num owned
414
Wanting
42
Wishing
131
Num comments
87
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (6)
Cooperative GameDice RollingHexagon GridRole PlayingSimulationVariable Player Powers
Categories (5)
AnimalsEducationalFightingHorrorScience Fiction
Description (702 chars)

Insecta is a game of bug-to-bug conflict and combat. Players design a mutant bug team and with them attempt to escape from "The Hive," filled with real-world arthropods and controlled by an adversarial "Hivemaster" player (somewhat akin to a dungeonmaster). The game comes with 16 mutant bug displays (6 are "starting" displays, the others are swapped in as the bugs mutate), design cards, mapsheets, minature bugs and counters. A limited reissue of the game, The Mutant Kit, was published in 2000 without rubber bugs or Hive cards, creating a modular game system that could be combined with other expansions. Expanded by: Insecta: Rainforest Insecta: Trilobite Insecta: Desert Hive

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.