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Game Description:
Apex is a deck-building game, played solo or with up to 5 friends. You play as a prehistoric predator competing for territory and resources against other predators. Each playable species has a unique deck to master. Each deck has different strengths, weaknesses, and strategies— creating a varied and constantly evolving experience.
Your species must overcome a very brutal environment including harsh climate changes, disease, attacks from predators, grievous wounds, infections, and deadly prey. The game incorporates many dinosaurs that behave in their own distinct way. The goal of the game is to endure the environment, build up the population and evolve your species, and become the apex predator.
Base Game includes:
• 17" Dinosaur size box
• 525 cards + 20 Card Dividers
• 24" x 16" Hunting Grounds game board
• Six 16" x 9" Nesting Grounds mats
• 80mm T.rex miniature Player Marker
• 40pg Rulebook
• 5 Foam Blocks to protect cards and fill empty spaces
Includes 7 Playable Apex Decks:
• Acrocanthosaurus
• Carnotaurus
• Giganotosaurus
• Spinosaurus
• Tyrannosaurus
• Utahraptor
• Velociraptor
The 525 cards includes 7 playable Apex Decks, 22 diverse animals to hunt, 11 dangerous carnivores, 8 opposing Boss cards with Minions (acts as artificial players for solo play), 11 environmental effects, 5 genetic evolution types, and 3 grievous wound types.
Previous Version Published (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH BASE GAME):
• Exotic Predators Limited Edition (see separate entry for details)
Note to fans:
The dinosaurs and events in Apex are not 100% based on fact. Apex is a mix of old and new dinosaur culture and some things were just changed to enjoy the game more. Please forgive us for any inaccuracies you find in Apex and it is not designed to educate.
Beta Tester list:
Anthony Sato, Erich Hartsock, Keith Neemann, Ramon Wallace, Sean Donaldson, Dennis Lenusters, Jeremy Mohler, Mike Paschal, Jonathan Venezian, Stephen Hill, Chris Gunning, Cody Bridges, Kevin, Christopher Crowell, Thomas Prentice, Baldur, Matthew, Nathaniel Graham, Chris Pienta, Christopher Lambson, Joseph Avery, David Schreiber, Tyler Howsare, Matthew Sauerbrunn, Denis Durand, Daniel Goldman, Aaron, Teresa Phillips, Collin Shorette, NVS Gameplays, Gergorian, Scott Lenet, Adherbal Junior, Corey Punko, Scott Sexton, Cyn, Matt Schock, Kyle Collins, Jack, Tom Hoefle, Jason Lesovoy, Kristian, Ekky-Bear, Ryan Mrochuk, Deon Beswick, Tim Long, Chen Weiyu, Brandon Lane, Nicholas Miesmer, Nicholas Rusak, Jacob Carter, Gabriel Marquez, James Dundas, S Williams, Tremane Barclay, George Bracy, Nathaniel Walter, Jason Wright, Chris Murphy, and all other testers!
Microbadges
Apex Theropod fan
- Apex Theropod Deck-Building Game fan
- Great art and component quality.
- Excellent solo experience.
- The collected edition includes all content.
- Thematic disconnect with certain unlocked species (e.g., Megalodon) and land-based events.
- Zombie dinos expansion is considered dumb.
- Dinosaurs evolving and fighting
- Prehistoric
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Area control of locations.
- Deck Building — Building up your deck as you play.
- Deck deconstruction — Pulling cards out of your deck to put into your stall.
- Set Collection — Building out your stall through set collection.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- this Ultimate Edition has all the expansion materials you know everything out for it and also really nice wooden you know tokens and stuff so it makes it it's this is the best version like if you can find this this is this is the best
- it has one of the best senses of exploration
- this is a super unique worker placement game where your cards your workers are cards
- this is just this is just a classic
- this one for all intents of purposes killed Firefly because you're pretty much doing the same thing but it's a smaller smaller footprint like and it's doesn't take nearly as long
References (from this video)
- rich content in a compact box
- replayable boss encounters
- some combos can be brutally difficult
- Dinosaurs and survivial/adventure
- Dinosaurs and prehistoric environments
- Campaign-esque, modular content
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- boss encounters — structured boss battles with replayable boss patterns
- deck-building — build a deck from cards to tackle encounters and bosses
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's always your turn
- one of the best solo deck builders you can get
- this is one of the most impressive solo titles from GMT
- this is such a fantastic puzzle
- a masterpiece of minimalism
- it's such a satisfying card play
References (from this video)
- highly rated among solo deck-builders
- illustrations are great; Dino theme is well realized
- some players find Legendary-style approach less engaging solo
- dinosaurs; prehistoric action
- Legendary: Marvel
- Apex
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- deck-building — fast, tight solo-first design with table-dredge/engine elements
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's one of the most beloved solo board games out there
- this is a wonderful engine builder
- a game that you can take anywhere
- the rule book was perfect in my opinion
- one hell of a title by chip theory games