On The Origin Of Species

Should this hit the table?

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The game has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth. Players need to frequently pay attention to and react to others' strategies and turns. There is a limited emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

The game has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth. Players need to frequently pay attention to and react to others' strategies and turns. There is a limited emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

The game offers a high level of variability with a diverse gameboard, multiple paths to victory, and variable setups. The expansions available add new content and gameplay elements, enhancing the replay value. The strategic depth allows players to continually improve their strategies and discover new tactics. The game scales well with different numbers of players without compromising its appeal or balance. While it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the investment. Overall, On the Origin of Species has a strong replayability score of 7.8.

Luck profile

The final luck score for On the Origin of Species is 7, indicating a moderate level of luck influence. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. 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.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

"I am very anxious to see the Galapagos Islands, -- I think both the Geology & Zoology cannot fail to be very interesting." -- Charles Darwin, Letter to his sister, Catherine in August 1835. Assist Charles Darwin during the Beagle journey across the Galapagos Islands, discovering new species and researching them in order to improve your knowledge. During their turn, the active player must choose between two actions: Research: Put 2 research pieces on 2 different species tiles on the board, gaining the knowledge of air, land or water habitat. Discover: use the acquired habitat knowledge to place new species tiles on the board, obtaining victory points and evolution, characters and objects cards. Additionally advance the Beagle on its track. The game finishes when the Beagle reaches the last space of its trip, leaving the archipelago through New Zealand. The players score the evolution points according to the final goal card, adding them to the points obtained during the game. The player with more points in the scoring track wins. —description from the publisher

Mechanism

2

Hand Management Tile Placement

Family

6

Components: Meeples (Animal) / Animeeples Country: Ecuador Crowdfunding: Verkami Islands: GalÃ¡pagos (Ecuador) Organizations: Board Games Association ofâ?¦ Theme: Biology

Type

1

Strategy

Media

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