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Bios: Genesis
Year
2016
Players
14
Play time
120min
Min age
12+
Weight
4.38
BGG rating
7.06
BGG rank
#2444
Best with
3

Local copies

Rating: 7.0

MeepleMates notes for Bios: Genesis

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  • Bios: Genesis is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 3 player according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 7.06 and BGG rank #2444.
  • Groups use this page to connect Prehistoric, Environmental metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 1, 2, 4.
Description from the publisher: In Bios: Genesis, one to four players start as organic compounds shortly after Earth's formation, represented by up to four Biont tokens. The Amino Acids command Metabolism, the lipids create cells, the pigments control energy absorption and storage, and the nucleic acids control templated replication. Their goal is a double origin of life: first as Autocatalytic Life (a metabolic cycle reproducing, yet not replicating, its own constituents), and the second as Darwinian Life (an Organism using a template to replicate in an RNA world). Players can play cooperative, competitive, or solitaire. Notes designer Phil Eklund, "This subject is the most difficult and ambitious I have ever attempted, and it has taken many years to get it to work right." With Bios: Genesis, Bios: Megafauna, and Bios: Origins (Second Edition), Eklund takes players through almost the whole breadth and scope of life on Earth. Living Rules Book 1 Living Rules Book 2

Categories

PrehistoricEnvironmental

Mechanics

Variable Set-upOpen DraftingSudden Death EndingArea Majority / InfluenceDice RollingTurn Order: RandomSimulationMarketCooperative GameEventsAuction CompensationKing of the HillRandom ProductionRe-rolling and Locking

Best with how many players

1
Recommended
2
Recommended
3
Best
4
Recommended
4+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Some necessary text - easily memorized(6 of 9 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Thematic Rank#485

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External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 08/08/2026.

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