Life of the Amazonia is a strategy game about creating a high scoring and great looking jungle. By looking at the components it is clear that every player will have a colorful jungle. Winning will depend on how well a player does at adding terrain tiles and populating those tiles with animals, trees, and aquatic flowers. – – 1 to 4 payers – – 60 to 50 game time
Each turn begins with players drawing five resource tokens randomly from their bag. There are four different types of resources: currency, leaves, water, and fruit. Players start with ten in their bag: five currency, two leaves, two water, and one fruit. Currency is used to buy more powerful tokens of the four resource types and takes an action. The other resources (leaves, water, & fruit) are used to trigger any of the other seven action options. When a player’s turn is over all of the tokens that were used and any new ones gained are placed in their discard boat. The tokens in their discard boat will refill their draw bag once their bag is empty.
Each player also starts the game with one unique animal. There are a total of eight unique animals. Players are randomly dealt two cards featuring one of these animals. They will choose the one they want to keep and take the supply of corresponding animal meeples. They will be the only player placing that particular animal. Additionally, there are eight different common animals that are available for all players to use. Each type of animal scores in a different way.
There are three tracks that players will want to move up on: terrain, tree, and aquatic flowers with an action option pertaining to each. Pay the cost to place one of the types (terrain tile, tree, aquatic flower token) in your jungle and move your marker up the corresponding track. Moving up the tracks will yield bonuses and end game points. Another action is to buy a nature card. There are two types: scenery and insect. Scenery nature cards yield game end points while Insect nature cards yield an immediate one-time bonus.
The last action option is to expand your storage space. On your turn you can choose not to use all of your available resource tokens and may save one to use for the next round. This unused token will get added to the five new ones that will get drawn from your bag for the start of the next round. By expanding your storage space, you can increase the number of hold-over resource tokens from one each round to up to three. This could set a player up for a big round of having eight resource tokens to dispatch.
Game end is triggered when five of the common animal supplies have been depleted. The player who triggered game end receives five bonus points while all other players get one more turn. Scores are calculated for each animal in your jungle. Add in the scores from up to four of your scenery cards and points earned on each of the terrain, tree, and aquatic flowers tracks. The player with the most points wins!
Life of Amazonia combines bag-building, resource management, and tile placement in a game with a vibrant table presence.
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