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Evolution: Random Mutations

2013 card game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ52180236
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Evolution: Random Mutations is a card game created by Dmitriy Knorre and Sergey Machin in 2010. The game is inspired by the evolutionary biology. It was published by SIA Rightgames RBG. Publishing of the game was financed in Boomstarter. English, French and German game editions were published in 2014.

Two or more players create their own animals, make them evolve and hunt in order to survive.

Random Mutations is the remake of Evolution: The Origin of Species basic game published in 2010. New game shows the aspects of evolution better. Generation of traits is truly random, it is as a result of either positive or negative mutation. As a result of natural selection that plays out on the game – positive mutations remain more often than negative. One more important entity is the population of species.

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