Life of the Amazonia – Impressions After One Play

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Last night, my father-in-law, my wife and a friend sat down at the table to play Life of the Amazonia, the latest game successfully Kickstarted by Bad Comet Games. “’Life of the Amazonia’ is a medium-weight strategic meeple placing game that combines bag building and pattern building.

In Life of the Amazonia, you’ll be invited to the lush jungle of the Amazon to join in the mission of building an ecologically rich jungle. The beautiful animals of the Amazon will guide you through the deep puzzles and strategic experience. After a pleasantly challenging game, you’ll find that there is a beautiful jungle created in front of each player.”

Please note that this article is not a How to Play for Life of the Amazonia

Getting Life of the Amazonia to the table

What I really like about Life of the Amazonia is the token bin included in the box. While there is a bit a assembly to get it setup, once you do, almost all the tokens you will use during the game are nicely sorted and stored in those boxes. To get the game going, simply take that out of the box and remove the lids. Everything else, however, takes a bit of work.

You need to decide which set of animals you’re going to use (A, B, C, D, or F) and set those cards out on the table, adding the required number of those animals near the cards. You also need to shuffle and lay out three cards from each of the insect and scenery nature cards. Build and setup the Waterfall of Life, and place the player markers on each track. Then each player needs a discard boat, a bag, the required starting chips, and a unique animal to the start the game.

For our first time playing, it took about 10 minutes to setup the table.

Going through the rules of Life of the Amazonia

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