CRAPPY EVOLUTION - Evolve badly. Go extinct last.🧬

Intro

For millions of years, evolution created smart, fast, well-adapted creatures.
This card game ruins all of that.

In this game, you guide the world’s least qualified animals through disasters using mutations that range from questionable to catastrophically stupid.
Extra limbs? Useless.
A horn in the middle of the head? Why not.
A battle cry so bad it scares you instead? Perfect.

Survive meteors, floods, predators, and plagues by evolving incorrectly on purpose.
Choose the wrong mutation and lose your Life.
Choose an especially dumb one and lose for Stupidity.
Lose either, and your species is officially a mistake.

Outlast your friends, sabotage evolution, and prove that natural selection has no idea what it’s doing.

Evolve badly.
Go extinct last. 🧬

What's About?

If evolution were a party game designed by a committee of caffeine-fueled monkeys, CRAPPY EVOLUTION would be the chaotic masterpiece that sprang from the resulting disaster.

What it feels like:

Why it’s awesome:
✔️ Fast and unpredictable — Games wrap up quickly, but every round feels totally different.
✔️ Ridiculously funny card art — Mutations range from “that’s hilariously useless” to “how did this even get printed?”
✔️ Highly replayable — Whether you play Use Your Brain (memory + tactics) or Total Chaos (pure luck), the vibe is always hilarious.
✔️ Clever yet simple rules — Easy to teach, harder to master (if by “master” you mean “survive”).
✔️ Perfect for groups — Casual gamers, party players, and absurd-strategy fans all get in on the chaos.

What makes it special:
While other games boast deep strategic layers, CRAPPY EVOLUTION proudly embraces absurdity. You’ll pick mutations that make your creature part cactus, part confused bird, and then watch your best plan fall apart.  If you want something that’s fun, chaotic, and consistently hilarious (but also surprisingly strategic once you start paying attention), CRAPPY EVOLUTION delivers. It’s goofy, unpredictable, and one of the most enjoyable bad decisions you’ll make at game night.

What's is Included?

The game consists of 52 cards, divided as follows:

• 5 Animal cards – Koala, Sloth, Giant Panda, Naked Mole Rat and Dodo - one per player (or two in case of just two players)
• 12 Event cards
• 35 Mutation cards
  • 27 useful mutations (more or less!)
  • 8 completely useless mutations
• 1 Rigid Game Box case
• Game Rules Leaflet
• Quick Rules card

Two Ways to Play, Two Completely Different Experiences!

How to Play

Build creatures that look illegal 
Trigger effects that spiral completely out of control
Ruin your own strategy in real time
Watch your friends scream as their “perfect plan” collapses

Two different ways of gameplay: One that involves good memory and thinking, another of total chaos, where only luck is allowed!

You’ll learn the rules fast.
You’ll feel smart for about 12 seconds.
Then someone plays that card and everything devolves into beautiful chaos.

Balanced? ❌
Fair? ❌
Hilarious? Disturbingly yes!

🧠 MODE 1: Use Your Brain!

Setup
- Each player gets 1 random Animal card.
- Shuffle all Event cards into one face-down deck.
- Lay Mutation cards face down in rows of 7 in the center.
 

On Your Turn
1. Reveal 1 Event card (applies to everyone).
2. You choose 1 Mutation card first.
3. Other players choose 1 Mutation card in turn order.
4. Everyone reveals their Mutation and resolves it.
 

Mutation Resolution
✅ Works for the Event → Safe. Keep it face up in front of you (removed from the game).
⚠️ Doesn’t work but still useful → Lose Life.
❌ Useless → Lose Life + Stupidity.

End of Round
- Functional Mutations stay face up with the player.
- All others go face down and return to play.
- Played Mutations are randomly swapped into new positions—memory matters.

🎲 MODE 2: Total Chaos!

Same rules—no memory, no mercy.
- Mutation cards are kept in one face-down deck.
- Players draw and play immediately.
- Used non-functional Mutations go back under the deck.
Pure randomness. Faster games. Maximum chaos.

☠️ ELIMINATION & WINNING

If your Life OR Stupidity hits zero → you’re out.
Last player standing wins.
Choose your mode wisely…
or embrace the chaos and play both. 🧬

Strategy meets Regret!

CRAPPY EVOLUTION rewards clever combos, terrible decisions, and the ability to laugh while everything burns.

Every game is different.
Every creature is worse.
Every win feels deeply undeserved.

Every winner becomes the ultimate evolutionary accident:
an awkward, barely functional, brand-new species stitched together from every mutation they somehow survived.

Is it beautiful?
Absolutely not.
Is it alive?
…Technically yes.

Congratulations — you didn’t win.
You out-evolved everyone else by sheer dumb mutations.

Unleash the unconventional. 😄

🐾 Why These Five Animals?

We didn’t choose these animals because they’re majestic.
Or balanced.
Or biologically sensible.

We chose them because evolution clearly had questions when creating them.

Each of these five species represents a different kind of survival failure:

• One survived out of pure stubbornness
• One through sheer confusion
• One because nature gave up arguing
• One by being weird enough that predators avoided it
• And one that absolutely should not exist, yet somehow does

Together, they form the perfect starting point for CRAPPY EVOLUTION:
a lineup of creatures already halfway to disaster, just waiting for you to make things worse.

Science didn’t approve this selection.
Common sense resigned.
And evolution… well… it’s about to regret everything!

Because the world does not need another serious card game.

It needs a game where evolution goes off the rails, science makes deeply questionable choices, and every player feels both clever and ashamed at the same time.

🧪 IT’S PURE, BEAUTIFUL CHAOS

CRAPPY EVOLUTION turns every game night into a fast-paced disaster of cursed creatures, broken combos, and sudden betrayals. You’ll laugh, panic, and yell “WAIT—THAT CAN’T WORK LIKE THAT” at least once per round.

🧠 EASY TO LEARN. HARD TO CONTROL.

You’ll grasp the rules in minutes.
You’ll think you’re winning.
You’re wrong.

The game rewards creativity, timing, and embracing total nonsense when your “perfect strategy” mutates into a problem.

🎉 IT ACTUALLY GETS PLAYED

No 40-minute rule explanations. No boring downtime.
CRAPPY EVOLUTION hits the table, causes chaos, and immediately earns a spot in your regular game rotation.

🚀 YOUR BACKING MAKES IT WORSE (IN A GOOD WAY)

Backing this project doesn’t just fund the game—it unlocks better components, more ridiculous cards, and stretch goals that push evolution even further into the abyss.

❤️ SUPPORT A PASSIONATE (AND SLIGHTLY UNHINGED) TEAM

We’re not a faceless publisher. We’re a small team obsessed with making a game that’s fun, replayable, and just irresponsible enough to be memorable.

Who we are

We're Three Sicilian game enthusiasts, hooked on creativity, arts, vintage vibes, and boardGames!! Born in Sicily but built for the world. 🌍
We design fresh, fast & fun tabletop games!
Growing up in Sicily, we watched our grandparents play cards for hours—loud, fast, simple, and full of laughter. No infinite rulebooks. No overthinking. Just pure fun and connection.
That’s our inspiration.
Our mission? Create games that are quick to learn, easy to play, and impossible to put down. Games that hit the table again and again.

We teamed up with Trinacria Brains and FreeLanceLAB in order to bring you a new range of fun-loving card and tabletop games! This is only one of the multiple projects in store... Stay tuned😉

Designed With Love. Illustrated With Bad Ideas.

CRAPPY EVOLUTION was designed to create smart mechanics, dumb outcomes, and watching plans fall apart in spectacular fashion. Every rule was crafted to be easy to learn, fast to play, and just unbalanced enough to stay hilarious.

The artwork, designed & created by Dario and FreeLanceLAB, matches the chaos: bold, absurd, and proudly weird. Every card is illustrated to make you laugh first, think second, and immediately question the evolutionary process.

This isn’t just a game you play—it’s a visual disaster you proudly put on the table!

Meet the TEAM

A small group of passionate friends, united by bad ideas, questionable humor, and an unhealthy love for chaotic card games.

Shipping & Taxes

As specified, all the shipping will be calculated and added later, during the Pledge Manager📦 Over the years, shipping costs have seen noticeable increases, and we're doing our best to offset these expenses. While we strive to keep shipping costs at a minimum, please bear in mind that our pricing models are set by our partners, therefore your understanding is greatly appreciated.💓

Great news for EU backers—no need to worry about EU or UK VAT on top. We'll handle any other applicable taxes, like US sales tax, smoothly through the Pledge Manager later on.

Thanks for your support! 🌍✈️