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Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)

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2017 · 1-4 players · 180min · weight 4.51 · 1,445 ratings

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ID
221769
Name
Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)
Year
2017
Rank
1731
Min players
1
Max players
4
Playing time
180
Min playtime
90
Max playtime
180
Avg weight
4.5065
Num weights
154
Bayes avg
6.24221
Average
7.56537
Users rated
1445
Num owned
4350
Wanting
155
Wishing
902
Num comments
482
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:17:32 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (5)
Area Majority / InfluenceModular BoardOpen DraftingSimultaneous Action SelectionTurn Order: Random
Categories (3)
EnvironmentalPrehistoricTerritory Building
Description (1126 chars)

Bios: Megafauna starts where the predecessor game Bios: Genesis left off, with the invasion of the land on the daybreak of the Phanerozoic eon. Starting as either a plant, mollusk, insect, or vertebral skeletal type, your flapping, paddling, and squawking carnivores and herbivores make a beachhead on one of the drifting continental plates in the Cambrian, Their struggle for terrestrial dominance may eventually include language-based consciousness. Although this achievement elevated a certain mammal species to notoriety, in your game things may occur differently. This second edition of Bios: Megafauna is an evolutionary descendant of American Megafauna but as a part of the Bios series of games it is linked to the game Bios: Genesis. It plays well independently but if you have both games you can let the end state of a game of Bios: Genesis affect the starting state of a game of Bios:Megafauna. A successor game, called Bios:Origins (which would be a descendant of Origin), is planned to cover the events of the Quaternary period including the rise of ideas and technology. —description from the publisher

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