Evolution is a game about creating species and evolving them to survive and thrive. In fact, it's really a game about eating as much food as possible, whether it be the grass you innocently consume or the other players that you happily devour. The play is relatively simple and card-driven with the cards serving multiple purposes. The first thing that happens at the beginning of every round is the players must each select a single card to throw face down in the centre for plant food (each card has a little number in the corner stating how much plant food its worth). After that, players one at time play all the cards they want to either:
- add a useful trait to a species, up to a maximum of 3 traits,
- discard to increase a species population size or body size by 1, or
- discard to create a whole new species in front of them.
Extra cards can be held for later turns which can be quite useful. Once all the cards are chosen, the plant food is revealed. This is often to the sound of groans of the players as there will usually not be enough plant food for all species, especially in the later rounds. Then, going around the circle one at a time, players take plant food till it runs out. Once the feeding is done, species' populations drops to the amount of food recovered and the food taken is set aside to be scored at the end of the game. Often species will not capture any food in the round and will go extinct much to the dismay of the owning player.
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Prototype pieces... not the real thing |
What makes the game interesting are the traits players add to their species to try and increase their chances for survival. Traits like 'foraging' (species takes 2 food each time), 'unstable dna' (player gets another species when plant food is revealed), and 'cooperation' (neighbouring species gets a food when the species gets a food) all make things a little less predictable. But the most important trait, by far, is the 'carnivore' trait which allows a species to attack and consume other species, including possibly another of the same player's. Carnivores can't eat plant food so they must attack another species of a smaller body size. Each attack drops the victim's population by 1 (zero population and you go extinct!) and the predator gains a number of meat food equal to the victim's body size.
Now this particular aspect of the game will probably be what people like and dislike the most about the game. Once players go carnivore - and they will need to at some point as plant food is so sparse as populations increase - the direct attacks will be swift and vicious. But since so much food is generated each time from 1 population they don't usually eliminate a species. And if they do, the victim gains extra cards to compensate - a nice balancing rule for this new edition of the game. Since players can replace traits with new ones, one can also swiftly respond to carnivores in future rounds by evolving differently with traits like 'climbing' and 'hard shell'.
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Some more traits |
So the "take that" aspect of the game is definitely there but not overwhelming. One can easily defend by evolving differently or just fattening up their species. Once the cards run out, the final round is played and then the players score up their points for all the food they took throughout the game and the number and population of their surviving species. Simple. There were a few rules issues we had to iron out in our plays but this makes sense for a game that is still officially "under development".
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Real artwork for the game |
If you're interested, you should check out their Kickstarter campaign for Evolution which launched last Monday. They've already reached 480% of their goal. Their strategy seems to be working....
I really enjoyed the game. Overall I thought it met my expectations. It was just the right amount of time, a nice level of strategy while not being too heavy. Easy to teach. I don't mind games with a "take-that" element and I thought this game did a good job of including some fighting without it dominating the game.
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