Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
By the hundreds, creatures are emigrating from the Old World in search of hope and prosperity. The New World offers endless opportunity, but only to those who arrive first.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Enclosure
Surround spaces or pieces to claim territory, capture, or score.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Take That
Direct negative effects at selected opponents.
Hexagon Grid
Use a hexagonal map where each space connects evenly in six directions.
Read the full game description
By the hundreds, creatures are emigrating from the Old World in search of hope and prosperity. The New World offers endless opportunity, but only to those who arrive first. In this clever new game by designer Joe Cannon, players seek out territories to conquer and compete for the most fertile properties, making critical decisions to gain the advantage. This set will provide the basic rules and set you up for future expansions, which will exponentially increase the elements of story and strategy. Migration is a game suitable for 2-4 players, in which each player takes the role of multiple anthropomorphic animals migrating to a new continent. Players take turns to place an animal token on the board, representing towns. Each new town must originate from the last town placed (with certain exceptions). Each animal token has a unique ability, introducing a high degree of strategy. The game is over when no player is able to make a legal move, and points are scored for each town on the board. The player with the highest score wins. This entry is for the version of Migration printed by Thegamecrafter.com IF YOU HAVE THE VERSION OF MIGRATION THAT CAME FROM KICKSTARTER, PLEASE PUT YOUR RATING HERE: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/158122/migration-book-ii-saga-conflict