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2017 Ranked #1,868

Cytosis: A Cell Biology Board Game

Worker-placement game set inside a human cell where players gather resources and build cellular components. Limited action spaces represent biological processes, so every placement must help produce the structures needed to outscore rival cells.

Strategy Games Economic Educational Set Collection Worker Placement

Players

2-5

Play time

60-90 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2.45/5

Rating

7.02

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Cytosis: A Cell Building Game is a worker placement game that takes place inside a human cell. Players start out with a number of workers and on a player’s turn, they will place one of their workers in any available location within that cell.

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Cytosis: A Cell Building Game is a worker placement game that takes place inside a human cell. Players start out with a number of workers and on a player’s turn, they will place one of their workers in any available location within that cell. Some of the locations provide players with resources (e.g., mRNA, ATP); some with actions (e.g., convert resources, collect cards). Resources are used to build enzymes, hormones and/or receptors, which score Health Points. The player with the most Health Points at the end of the game wins!

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
60–90 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.5/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
John Coveyou

Artists

2
Tomasz Bogusz John Coveyou

Publishers

1
Genius Games

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