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Extinction: The Game Of Ecology

An ecology strategy game where players guide a species through migration, reproduction, competition, and predation across habitats. Environmental changes can affect everyone, and overgrowing a population leaves it exposed to famine, plague, and extinction.

Animals Territory Building Area Movement Enclosure

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.73

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

You are the head of an entire species. You are responsible for migration, reproduction, and compete with and Prey on the other species.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Area Movement

Move pieces between connected regions rather than along individual spaces.
Enclosure

Surround spaces or pieces to claim territory, capture, or score.
Read the full game description

You are the head of an entire species. You are responsible for migration, reproduction, and compete with and Prey on the other species. The board is divided into numerous hexagons representing different habitat areas. Six different gene cards are drawn to dictate the different aspects of life. Players take turns drawing environmental change cards that affect them and sometimes all players. Play continues until only one species survives. This game challenges all your strategy and can take sudden unexpected turns. Build your populations strength but be careful if you get to big, You may be surprised by a famine or plague and end up EXTINCT.

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Category

2
Animals Territory Building

Mechanism

2
Area Movement Enclosure

Family

2
Components: Dice as Playing Units Theme: Evolution

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
120 min
Age
8+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Stephen P. Hubbell Margie Piret

Publishers

2
Carolina Biological Supply Company Sinauer Associates, Inc.

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