Occasionally we feature a post from our friends at The Malted Meeple. Their Game of the Month series highlights one of the many games in their libraries at Ravenwood Castle and The Malted Meeple. They briefly describe the game, how to play it, and why they like it. 

Game: BIOTIX

Eureka! Our July Game of the Month is BIOTIX, from our friends at Smirk & Dagger Games!

World-renowned Dr. Johannae has made a breakthrough in the field of micro-biology! She has discovered a new breed of microorganisms, codenamed: BIOTIX. These BIOTIX are extremely volatile, however; they can exist uneasily within a small system. As one of Dr. Johannae’s lab assistants, you have been tasked with growing a culture of the notoriously unstable BIOTIX. However, microbiology can be a cutthroat field, especially when a new discovery is on the line. You will need to carefully grow your own culture of BIOTIX in your petri dish while sabotaging the petri dishes of your fellow lab assistants. Dr. Johannae will only recognize the lab assistant who has produced the most promising results. But beware, turnabout is fair play. BIOTIX react in unpredictable ways, triggering bio-reactions with explosive results!

In a game of BIOTIX, all the BIOTIX Meeples are placed in the Bio-containment bag and each player is given a petri dish. On a player’s turn, he will draw two BIOTIX and place them in either his own petri dish or an opponent’s. Each type of BIOTIX has a different trigger number which may cause a bio-reaction! Each type of BIOTIX reacts differently when they reach critical mass. Some allow you to take BIOTIX from other players, while others force you to give away your own BIOTIX. Both can cause catastrophic chain reactions across multiple petri dishes.

Read more about the game play for BIOTIX on the Meeple Moments blog.