Dominant Species: 2nd Edition (English)

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DESCRIPTION

90,000 B.C. - A large glacial period is fast approaching. Another titanic struggle for world supremacy has involuntarily started between different animal species.

Dominant Species is a game that abstracts abstractly a tiny part of ancient history: the heavy encroachment of an ice age and what this implies for living creatures that try to adapt to the earth that changes slowly.
Each player will assume the role of one of the six main animal classes: mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, arachnids or insects. Everyone begins the game more or less in a state of natural balance in relation to each other. But it will not last: it is indeed the "survival of the most capable".

Thanks to the placement of cunning action pawns, players will endeavor to become dominant on as many different land tiles as possible in order to claim powerful card effects. Players will also want to propagate their individual species in order to win victory points for their particular animal. Players will be helped in these efforts by speciation, migration and adaptation actions, among others.

All this finally leads to the end of the game - the final ascent of the ice age - where the player who accumulated the most victory points will see his animal crowned the dominant species.

But someone better becomes dominant quickly, because it is very cold ...