Workers progression

In Darwin’s Journey most of the actions that can be performed are bound to requirements that your workers can learn by attending the Academy. The more complex the action, the more difficult  the necessary requirements will be.

1. Action requirements, 2. Experienced workers bonuses, 3. Worker placement space, 4. Action, 5. Unlockable improved action

There are 4 different types of wax seals that can be assigned to workers that are linked to the main actions in the game: Exploration, Navigation, Correspondence and Learning.

Expanding the knowledge of your workers will also grant victory points and increase  bonuses when performing actions.

Exploration

One of the main actions is exploring the Galapagos by advancing with your explorers in one of the different islands. The first island is unlocked immediately, while the second and third will be bound to how far your ship advances with the Navigation.

On the islands, your explorers will find three different types of events:

Finding Repertoires: You will be able to discover and take notes on your player board, finding one of the 16 different repertoires available divided in four categories: reptiles, fossils, plants and birds. These discoveries will be shared with the museum which will grant coins and advancement in the Theory of Evolution track.

Placing Tents: When visiting a camp site, you will be able to place one of your tents on the island, unlocking immediate bonus actions and extra perks that can be found on the player boards and that should be taken immediately depending on which tent is being placed.

Bonuses: You will also be able to receive other bonuses like: immediate actions, coins, and wilds which can be used to pay for requirements in order to perform an action that your workers don’t have.

Adventure and exploration are vivid and engaging as we trace back Darwin’s Memories through many of his discoveries in the Galapagos islands, which heavily contributed to his Theory of Evolution.

By exploring the island and navigating through the ocean, we will find new incredible species and take notes of our discoveries.

Once we are ready to share our discoveries with the world, we will be able to send repertories to the Museum by placing our worker in the corresponding field of the game board. This is an open action that any player can perform during the game and allows to send up to two repertories per time, to the museum. The first one is free, while the second one will cost 3 coins. 

Money is definitely the most difficult element to manage in the game, but will drastically improve the tempo and the quantity of workers used to accomplish a long term strategy.

Only one player can send a unique repertoire to the museum, and by doing so, they will get two different types of benefits, taking into account both the column and the row where the repertoire is placed.

Moreover, the player that delivers the first repertoire of a row will get an additional coin, and for the last repertoire of a row an additional evolution point.

Image example: By sending the “Amonite” to the Museum, the player will immediately get a total of 5 coins + 1 extra for being the first repertoire of the row and an advancement in the evolution track.

This interesting balance of coins and evolution points will change drastically as the game approaches the end; since at the beginning players will get more coins, and towards the end more evolution points.

By advancing towards the Evolution track, we will be able to increase the multiplier of the final scoring Theory of evolution, which consists in 2 points + 1 point for every completely filled row at the museum. This is one of the most important sources of victory points in the game and you should always keep track of how the other players are doing.