Darwinauts

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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 souls who dared to enter this exciting but dangerous new land to explore and record new species. The whole world is watching to see what discoveries you will reveal. The media has dubbed you and your kind "Darwinauts" because you dared to venture beyond the boundaries to record the new origins of species. You must work quickly to bring records of the most exotic forms of life and secure your place in history, but be careful, the portal is unstable and will not remain open for long... The rift is approaching!

During the game Darwinauts, players take two actions on their turn and choose from five possible actions: place an explorer, place a tile, replenish tiles and remove explorers, discover a species, and record a species. After recording a species, the player immediately takes one of the five possible bonus actions, which allow them to prepare for future turns or change the landscape. Players continue taking turns until the Rift tile is revealed, making the portal to the new world unstable. Once the Rift begins, players add an additional phase to their turns and participate in the destruction of the landscape they opened up for exploration. The game nears its end as players race to fulfill their tasks and return home. At the end of the game, players earn prestige points for their recorded species and bonuses for specializing in specific sets of species. The Darwinaut with the highest number of points wins the game and goes down in history as a pioneer of this new age of discoveries.