Natural selection, with its themes of development, expansion and competition, is the perfect subject for tabletop games. Yet it was a largely untouched thematic niche until 2010 with the releases of Dominant Species and Evolution: The Origin of Species.
Since then, a plethora of games about evolution has hit the market, from light and silly to deep and complex. Here’s our (natural) selection of games about evolution.
Evolution: New World
The latest incarnation of the Evolution series – play cards to create species and mutate them, then make your species compete for limited food or eat each other!
Oceans
Dominant Species: Marine
Darwinning!
Darwin's Choice
Create outlandish creatures and hope they survive changing biomes, natural events and their competitors.
Darwin's Journey
Sail in the boat-steps of the HMS Beagle and recreate Darwin’s famous voyage to the Galapagos Islands!
On the Origin of Species
Assist Darwin on his journey across the Galapagos Islands, discovering and researching new species.
Genotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game
Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)
Recreate the evolution of life, from arriving on land to the advent of language-based consciousness in the middle chapter in Phil Eklund’s ‘Bios’ trilogy.
Pathogenesis (Second Edition)
Pangea
Manage your species and prepare it for imminent catastrophe in the time of the Great Permian Extinction.
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