Apex Theropod Deck-building Game

Fit

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 2.8

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

The Apex Theropod Deck-Building Game has a high level of direct confrontation, with battles, blocking moves, and competitive actions having an immediate impact on opponents. The game also offers strategic depth in confrontation through resource denial, market manipulation, and strategic positioning. Players need to be aware of and react to others' strategies and turns frequently. However, the game does not emphasize cooperation as much, with less emphasis on working together to achieve goals or objectives. Overall, the game has a strong interaction score, making it engaging and competitive.

Replay value

The Apex Theropod Deck-Building Game has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, strategic depth, and scalability. The presence of expansions adds to its replay value. The game offers different experiences each time it is played and allows players to improve their strategy over time. However, it may not be the easiest game to learn, which slightly affects its overall replayability score.

Luck profile

The Apex Theropod Deck-Building Game has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. While players have some ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions, luck still plays a significant role. The game outcome is a balanced mix of luck and strategy.

Overview

Game Description: Apex is a deck-building game, played solo or with up to 5 friends. You play as a prehistoric predator competing for territory and resources against other predators. Each playable species has a unique deck to master. Each deck has different strengths, weaknesses, and strategies— creating a varied and constantly evolving experience. Your species must overcome a very brutal environment including harsh climate changes, disease, attacks from predators, grievous wounds, infections, and deadly prey. The game incorporates many dinosaurs that behave in their own distinct way. The goal of the game is to endure the environment, build up the population and evolve your species, and become the apex predator. Base Game includes: • 17" Dinosaur size box • 525 cards + 20 Card Dividers • 24" x 16" Hunting Grounds game board • Six 16" x 9" Nesting Grounds mats • 80mm T.rex miniature Player Marker • 40pg Rulebook • 5 Foam Blocks to protect cards and fill empty spaces Includes 7 Playable Apex Decks: • Acrocanthosaurus • Carnotaurus • Giganotosaurus • Spinosaurus • Tyrannosaurus • Utahraptor • Velociraptor The 525 cards includes 7 playable Apex Decks, 22 diverse animals to hunt, 11 dangerous carnivores, 8 opposing Boss cards with Minions (acts as artificial players for solo play), 11 environmental effects, 5 genetic evolution types, and 3 grievous wound types. Previous Version Published (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH BASE GAME): • Exotic Predators Limited Edition (see separate entry for details) Note to fans: The dinosaurs and events in Apex are not 100% based on fact. Apex is a mix of old and new dinosaur culture and some things were just changed to enjoy the game more. Please forgive us for any inaccuracies you find in Apex and it is not designed to educate. Beta Tester list: Anthony Sato, Erich Hartsock, Keith Neemann, Ramon Wallace, Sean Donaldson, Dennis Lenusters, Jeremy Mohler, Mike Paschal, Jonathan Venezian, Stephen Hill, Chris Gunning, Cody Bridges, Kevin, Christopher Crowell, Thomas Prentice, Baldur, Matthew, Nathaniel Graham, Chris Pienta, Christopher Lambson, Joseph Avery, David Schreiber, Tyler Howsare, Matthew Sauerbrunn, Denis Durand, Daniel Goldman, Aaron, Teresa Phillips, Collin Shorette, NVS Gameplays, Gergorian, Scott Lenet, Adherbal Junior, Corey Punko, Scott Sexton, Cyn, Matt Schock, Kyle Collins, Jack, Tom Hoefle, Jason Lesovoy, Kristian, Ekky-Bear, Ryan Mrochuk, Deon Beswick, Tim Long, Chen Weiyu, Brandon Lane, Nicholas Miesmer, Nicholas Rusak, Jacob Carter, Gabriel Marquez, James Dundas, S Williams, Tremane Barclay, George Bracy, Nathaniel Walter, Jason Wright, Chris Murphy, and all other testers! Microbadges Apex Theropod fan - Apex Theropod Deck-Building Game fan

Mechanism

2

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building Solo / Solitaire Game

Family

3

Animals: Dinosaurs Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Players: Games with Solitaire Rules

Type

1

Thematic

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