Biosphere

Players each control a different divine lineage responsible for populations that spread across a shared landscape. Each round a portion of types goes extinct, players gain and spend evolutionary points to adjust reproduction, movement, lifespan and specialization of their populations, and may play development cards when prerequisites are met. After evolution decisions, units move, reproduce and occupy terrain tiles; the board size scales with player count and interactions with other lineages affect distribution. Play proceeds while players complete public assignments drawn from seven categories, and the first to mark five completed assignments wins.

Players: 2–6 best 4
Playing time: 30–90 min
Age: 12+
Complexity: 3.5 / 5