6.7

Circle of Life (2015)

Eat, Grow, Get eaten.

Rank: 8198
2 Players
20-40 Min
Age: 10+
Complexity: 2.00/5

Designer: Nick Bentley

Publisher: (Web published)

Circle of Life, Winner of the Mind Sports Olympiad's Game of the Year award, and winner of the Best Combinatorial Game Award, is a strategy game where players evolve species to eat each other in a growing ecosystem.

Despite 1-minute rules, the game recreates key aspects of real ecosystems:

  • It starts with simple species, which evolve to become more diverse and complex.
  • Species get more complex as you go up the food chain.
  • Simple species reproduce, die, and evolve at higher rates than more complex ones.
  • When a species' population is high, another species often evolves to eat it.
  • When a critter at the top of the food chain dies, it feeds back into the bottom, to complete the Circle of Life.

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