Primordial Soup

This is my latest hottest board game : Primordial Soup. I bought this game because i really like the idea of this game - moving, eating, mutating, excreting amoeba :D. Beside, it has very good reviews from around the world (Primordial Soup’s original name is Ursuppe, and it’s from Germany). Here, take a peek

Overview:

This Primordial Soup is supposedly where all life came from. Players take charge of a tribe of amoeba as they struggle to survive. In order to help their quest, tribes will take various genetic advantages, which allow them to ‘break’ the rules of life. For instance, instead of going hungry, your amoeba could learn to attack foreign amoeba for food. Or perhaps your amoeba could be taught to need less food to survive. Either way, this is a very interesting take on the game of life.

Primordial Soup in 10 words:
1. GENES
“variable-player powers are just great”
“add a signficant level of complexity resulting in a relatively lengthy and involved game”
“watch your mutation points or the ozone layer will get you!”

2. AMOEBA
“drifting, eating, excreting, fighting and fleeing, dividing, dying”

3. EAT
“a lot of fun try to guide your amoeba to rich sources of food”
“wriggle and drift in the current all in the hopes of feeding or face extinction”
“something about eating other player’s poop makes me like this game”

4. LONG
“quite a bit of fiddly dealings with picking up and placing cubes”
“2+ hours is a bit too long”
“a bit slow to start but once players have figured the mechanics things go smoothly”
“nice game to add to the table when a longer lighter strategic game is desired”
“the feeding/movement phase takes too long”
“after a number of games (10-15 in my case) the mechanics become repetitive”

5. THEME
“fits the mechanics perfectly”
“awesome, and great art and gene ideas”
“more here than any lame historical simulation”

6. COMBINATIONS
“however you want to-play, aggressively, defensively, or slyly, you should be able to find a combination of genes to suit”
“definite learning curve here, and some gene-combinations work much better together than others”
“I’m still wondering if there’s something like a killer combination”

7. POOP
“One amoeba’s poop is another’s food.”
“poop jokes galore”
“eat poop and excrete poop and when you die you turn into a rainbow of poop”

8. STRATEGIES
“seem limitless with the different combination of cards”
“just enough randomness and strategy to make this one shine”
“seems pretty simplistic considering all the fiddling”

9. MECHANICS
“theme is interwoven well with the mechanics”
“ingenious”

10. UNIQUE
“unique mechanics”
“unique pieces and play”
“unique theme”
“unique gaming experience”

taken from : http://www.boardgamegeek.com