Primordial Soup
At the game shop, it was tough getting a game off the ground, but someone mentioned they have an old classic (old in board games is over 10 years old, by the way), Primordial Soup. I hadn’t played it, so I joined in. You have your squad of amoebas who move around a board and eat up the available resources there. It’s an interesting show of how absolutely terrible for the environment some creatures are.
The game starts balanced, with two resources of each type in each square, but as the game goes on, the board will be ruined with a lot of amoebas competing for resources while pooping out resources that are completely useless to them. My amoebas were trapped for most of the game on one side of the board, and that area became a sea of blue, which I couldn’t eat and was pretty useless to anyone else. The only time useful resources appear was when an amoeba died, and even then those resources were eaten up very quickly. I only did as well as I did because of the aggression gene, which allowed me to eat other amoebas alive if I was starving, but it wasn’t enough to keep up.
It’s an interesting game though, fairly well designed, but as mostly first-time players we had no clue how to survive in a gene pool that became more and more worthless the more time we spent in it. Maybe if I play again I’ll know what to do better.
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