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Neanderthal

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2015 · 1-3 players · 120min · weight 3.78 · 1,908 ratings

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ID
171662
Name
Neanderthal
Year
2015
Rank
1148
Min players
1
Max players
3
Playing time
120
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
120
Avg weight
3.7815
Num weights
151
Bayes avg
6.24978
Average
7.23561
Users rated
1908
Num owned
5547
Wanting
90
Wishing
694
Num comments
702
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:16:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (6)
Auction / BiddingDice RollingEventsNegotiationSimulationWorker Placement
Categories (3)
Card GameEconomicPrehistoric
Description (843 chars)

It's 43,000 BC in Ice Age Europe, the dawn of modern man. In Neanderthal, you are one of three human species: Archaic, Neanderthal, or Cro-Magnon. Assign your males to hunt Pleistocene megafauna, but try to avoid being eaten by predators. Assign your women for teaching your children vocabulary, leading to cognitive fluidity in the next generation and to a tribalistic culture. Specialize your elders for fire, war, big game, inventions, or animal domestications. Choose between three mating strategies: promiscuous, harems, or pair bonding. Victory depends on which strategy you choose, and may include your hunters, elders, women, vocabulary, trophies, inventions, or domesticated animals. At this point, the players have developed to the point where the companion game Greenland begins, so you can flow one game into another seamlessly.

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