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Chromosome

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2016 · 2-4 players · 60min · weight 2.80 · 122 ratings

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ID
202589
Name
Chromosome
Year
2016
Rank
23288
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
60
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.8
Num weights
10
Bayes avg
5.50794
Average
5.79262
Users rated
122
Num owned
199
Wanting
3
Wishing
62
Num comments
42
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:39:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (5)
Area Majority / InfluenceDice RollingHexagon GridModular BoardVariable Player Powers
Categories (1)
Science Fiction
Description (1426 chars)

A huge meteor containing some form of extra-terrestrial life crashes to Earth somewhere in the icy wasteland of Antarctica. The American government sets up a secret facility whose goal is to contain and examine these new and unfamiliar lifeforms — but something goes wrong. A huge storm damages the station, destroying vital systems. The alien microbes escape and begin to spread and conflict with each other, while the station's human inhabitants rapidly succumb to the cold. The last survivor, afraid of what the microbes could do to humanity, initiates a self-destruction procedure. There are four minutes left... Chromosome is an asymmetrical, tactical board game for 2-4 players. As an alien microbe, unaware of your impending doom, you struggle to survive and to escape the laboratory. As one of four microbe species, you have four general and four unique actions to take during your turn. You use them to spawn your microbe, fight other microbes, manipulate energy, create radioactive spaces, and finally mutate – to get new genes (four different types) that will help you to fight better, grow faster, and overcome your opponents. Your goal is to create the most effective set of genes to thrive in an environment that might be different each time you play. You win the game and escape the station if you have more population tokens on the board and more enemy microbes destroyed than any other player.

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.