“Recreate various creatures from myths and gain back your reputation as scientists.”
Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/380677/biohack
Playing Time: 60-90 Minutes
Weight: Midweight
Genre: Worker Placement
Designer: Yofiandhy D Indrayana
Players: 1-4
In the future, a group of scientists are expelled from polite academia for their dangerous and reckless flirtations with animal experimentation. Unbowed by social pressures, these scientists continued their attempts to build the biggest, baddest freaks of nature that humanity could envision. You are one of these unethical scientists.
Biohack is a worker placement game with a twist. At the start of a round, you choose three of five public locations for your workers to start off in. On your round, you can either pick up a worker from one of these public locations – which generally offer resources – or you can place a worker on an Experimentation slot on the board – such slots are exclusive. Clearly the first action you take has to be to pick up a meeple, but after that the choice gets interesting. On one hand, you want to take the good Experimentation slots before anyone else does. On the other hand, the resources given by public locations are more lucrative the more meeples are on there, so you kind of want to be the first to do that too.
Biohack was a kickstarter from a Japanese country, and as such it’s a little tricky to get. But if you’re a fan of worker placement games, it’s a real gem worth seeking out, due both to the above mechanic as well as the slickness of the presentation and theme.
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