• Dominant Species
  • Dominant Species

Game Details Players: 2 to 6 Age: 14 and up Time: 360 minutes
Publisher: GMT Games Designer(s): Chad Jensen


Dominant Species

Ref: DOMSPECIE
MYR395.00 MYR355.00

90,000 B.C. A great Ice Age is fast approaching. Another titanic struggle for global supremacy has unwittingly commenced between the varying animal species.

Dominant Species is a game for 2 to 6 players that abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history: the ponderous encroachment of an Ice Age and what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing Earth. All of this eventually leads to the end game the final ascent of the Ice Age where the player with the most Victory Points will have his Animal crowned the Dominant Species.

Note: This is the 5th Printing Code 1011-18. This will be identitcal to the 4th Printing, except that any known errata will be corrected.

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Weight (kg): 4.0 Sleeve size: 64x89 (27c)
BGC Marks Earned+355 (what is this?)
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90,000 B.C. — A great ice age is fast approaching. Another titanic struggle for global supremacy has unwittingly commenced between the varying animal species.

Dominant Speciesis a game that abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history: the ponderous encroachment of an ice age and what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing earth.

Each player will assume the role of one of six major animal classes—mammal, reptile, bird, amphibian, arachnid, or insect. Each begins the game more or less in a state of natural balance in relation to one another. But that won’t last: It is indeed "survival of the fittest".

Through wily action pawn placement, players will strive to become dominant on as many different terrain tiles as possible in order to claim powerful card effects. Players will also want to propagate their individual species in order to earn victory points for their particular animal. Players will be aided in these endeavors via speciation, migration, and adaptation actions, among others.

All of this eventually leads to the end game—the final ascent of the ice age—where the player having accumulated the most victory points will have his animal crowned the Dominant Species.

But somebody better become dominant quickly, because it’s getting mighty cold...


We have reworked all the internal component art for the 3rd to 5th printings of this game. The board, cards, and tiles all have a new look from the 1st and 2nd printings. Here are some samples:

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