Establish resources
Kelp, Bush, Tree, and Fungi support your ecosystem. Each animal has requirements that shape when and how it can enter play.
A trading card game / Absurd ecosystems
A small world.
A wild game.
Plants become infrastructure. Animals become food and fighters. You are a human Zoowalker, an alien intelligence from the animals’ perspective, gathering material for a PhD in Zoowalkery.
Explore the game01 / How it works
Your food chain
is your strategy.
Build an ecosystem.
Advance a questionable thesis.
Feed the next link
Consume your own animals to invoke larger ones. Diet and Yield turn the food web into an economy: a strong fighter may also be a valuable meal.
Intervene as the alien
Offer original Apex animals to advance a face-up sequence of Alien interventions. The human researcher is part of this world’s absurdity.
02 / Winning the game
Three paths
to finish your research.
Collect specimens
Reach 40 Corpse Value in your scored research collection.
Empty their Zoo
Deplete the opponent’s Main Deck, known as their Zoo.
Complete the sequence
Finish the Alien sequence and sacrifice an Apex to its final win token.
Current playtesting
Tundra forests.
Arctic oceans.
The project includes paper card definitions, a card gallery, and a browser sandbox with a CPU opponent. Four current starters explore Bears, Whales, Herbivores, and Socialité food webs.
Rules and balance are still evolving. The current sandbox and offline package live in the project workspace; this page introduces the game.
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