Players
2-5
Time
15-30
Age
12+
Weight
1.62
Rating
6.26
Teaching signal
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
Luck-sensitive
The game it's alive! has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players must frequently pay attention to and react to each other's strategies and turns. However, there is a lower emphasis on cooperation in the game. Overall, it's alive! has a strong interaction score.
The game it's alive! has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, the availability of expansions, deep strategic depth, and good scalability. The easiness to learn score is moderate, making it accessible to a wide range of players. Overall, it offers a fresh and engaging experience with room for improvement and different paths to victory.
The final luck score for it's alive! is 5.67. This indicates that the game has a balanced mix of luck and strategy. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome, and players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.
It is the turn of the nineteenth century, and mad scientists throughout Europe are competing for the infamy of being the first to create life through the power of alchemy. Using only the raw materials provided by some dubious "Suppliers to the Anatomical Trade", harnessed lightning, and the services of a motley crew of unattractive servants, in It's Alive! you race to collect the eight body parts needed to create your monster and bring it to life. Unfortunately, the local peasants are particularly clumsy and tend to die in freak farming accidents, so the dubious gentlemen rarely find a whole cadaver in sufficiently good condition. Instead, they offer the parts they have managed to salvage. Each turn, you may buy the offered part, sell it to an anatomist for a meager profit, or auction it, trying to get a better deal or rip off your opponents. You might be lucky and get a coffin with a weakling clerk's cadaver in it, which can be used in lieu of any strapping villager's body part, or your involvement in the macabre trade might invoke the villagers' wrath. Reimplements (and reimplemented by) The Menorah Game
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