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2007 Ranked #18,241

Caveman

A survival strategy game has tribes spread across an island, gather resources, and endure dinosaurs and rivals to become dominant. Victory can come from growing a population, completing resources, or leading when actions expire.

Family Games Dice Exploration Area Majority / Influence Animals: Dinosaurs

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

6+

Complexity

1.74/5

Rating

5.66

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.7/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 3.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

CAVEMAN: can your tribe survive? is a survival game where your objective is to become the dominant tribe on Volcano Island.

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CAVEMAN: can your tribe survive? is a survival game where your objective is to become the dominant tribe on Volcano Island. It's a harsh world, where marauding dinosaurs cause chaos, other tribes attack you, and you struggle to help your cave kids survive into adulthood. Players start from the corner spaces of a hexagonal island, and slowly spread out over the island, looking for resources to help them survive and prosper. The winner is the first player to either expand their population to eight adults, collect all five available resource types, or the player who has made the most progress when the action card deck expires.

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Game and edition data

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2–4
Play time
60 min
Age
6+
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

4
Matthew Hall Simon Hall Terry Shaw Magdalene Vrijland

Publishers

2
JKLM Games MAG (Make-A-Game) Ltd.

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