Green Couch Games

Congratulations! After decades of hard work, scientists have opened a portal to another dimension full of alien life. You are one of the few brave enough to enter this exciting but dangerous new land to research and record new species. The world is watching to see the discoveries that will be shown. The media has dubbed you and your comrades the "Darwinauts" because you dare to go further to document the new origins of species. You must work quickly to bring back notes of the most exotic lifeforms to secure your place in history, but be careful: the portal is unstable and won't stay open for long... The Rift is coming! During Darwinauts, a player performs two actions during their turn, choosing from five possible actions: placing an explorer, placing a tile, replenishing tiles and removing explorers, discovering a species, and registering a species. When registering a species, a player immediately takes one of five possible bonus actions that allow the player to prepare themselves for future turns or change the landscape. Players continue to take turns until The Rift tile is revealed, making the portal to the new world unstable. Once The Rift begins, players add an extra phase to their turns and take part in dismantling the landscape they've opened up for exploration. When the game ends, players receive prestige points for their registered species and bonuses are earned for specializing in specific sets of species. The Darwinaut with the most points wins the game and goes down in history as a pioneer in this new era of discovery.

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