You start as an ingredient in the primordial soup, and try to create life. Solitaire, competitive, and cooperative play options. This is the first game in the Bios:Trilogy, being followed by Bios:Megafauna 2 and Bios:Origins 2. The Bios games are linked yet independent.
Compared to the 1st edition, there are components now for 4 instead of 3 organisms for each player, 100 new commissioned artworks, 68 page rules/ science background, & a folding player aid.
Contents:
60 Cards illustrated by Karim Chakroun with 100 extra commissioned artworks
16 oversized placards, for bacteria and refugia
48 disks representing catalysts, enzymes, and antioxidants
64 wooden cubes for manna & chromosomes
16 wooden domes for bionts (4 more than 1st edition)
12 six-sided dice, used for autocatalytic and Darwin rolls
