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Dominant Species: Marine (GMT Games)GMT Games will release Dominant Species: Marine, designed by the late Chad Jensen, in early 2021 as the popular evolution strategy game takes to the seas. In the game, players will attempt to lead their aquatic animal class to the top of the food chain. Dominant Species: Marine is for two to four players, ages 14+, plays in around 90 to 150 minutes and can be preordered for the P500 price of $55.00, with an expected MSRP of $78.00. Hopefully, we might see this release in January.

From GMT:

“LIKE DOMINANT SPECIES; ONLY WETTER.”

Sixty-Something Millions of Years Ago — A great ice age has ended. With massive warming altering the globe, another titanic struggle for supremacy has unwittingly commenced between the varying animal species.

Dominant Species: Marine is a game that abstractly recreates a small portion of ancient history: the ending of an onerous ice age and what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing earth.

Each player will assume the role of one of four major aquatic-based animal classes—dinosaur, fish, cephalopod or crustacean. Each begins the game more or less in a state of natural balance in relation to one another. But that won’t last: It is indeed “survival of the fittest.”

Through wily action pawn placement, you will attempt to thrive in as many different habitats as possible in order to claim powerful card effects. You will also want to propagate your individual species in order to earn victory points for your animal. You will be aided in these endeavors via speciation, migration and adaptation actions, among others.

All of this eventually leads to the end game – the final ascent of a vast tropical ocean and its shorelines – where the player having accumulated the most victory points will have their animal crowned the Dominant Species.

But somebody better become dominant quickly, because there’s a large asteroid heading this way….

Dominant Species: Marine Board (GMT Games)

Jeff McAleer

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