LOCAL HOT-SEAT · 2–4 PLAYERS

Deep Time

Guide a marine lineage through a shifting ocean. Place one pawn, resolve its action, then pass the screen.

Players

Rules engine: core board, pawn placement, retrieval/reseed, species, elements, scoring and endgame. Card effects use guided manual resolution until card-face data is supplied.
PASS THE SCREEN

QUICK REFERENCE

Core turn rules

On your turn, place exactly one available pawn and immediately resolve its action, or retrieve all your pawns.

  • Basic pawns must advance downward through the display, or rightward within their lowest occupied row.
  • Special pawns may use any open space, a special-only space, or bump an opponent’s basic pawn.
  • When every lineage has retrieved, resolve Reseed and begin a new round.
  • Species removed from Earth are normally eliminated, not returned to the Gene Pool.
  • Ties in tile scoring favor Reptiles, then Cephalopods, Fishes, then Crustaceans.

This prototype uses original interface artwork and implements the supplied rulebook’s core procedures. Evolution and Trait card text is not contained in full in that rulebook.