Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Excavate fossil pieces, assemble spectacular skeletons, expand your museum, and follow visitor trends across five competitive seasons.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Set Collection
Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Worker Placement
Commit limited workers to action spaces before opponents occupy them.
Pattern Building
Place elements to create arrangements that satisfy scoring or action patterns.
Solo / Solitaire Game
Provide rules and objectives designed for a single player.
Read the full game description
Fossilium casts each player as the director of a new natural-history museum. Place paleontologists at shared action spaces, send expeditions to promising digs, assemble fossil tiles, and arrange complete specimens in an expanding exhibition hall. Restaurants, auditoriums, and other facilities build an economic engine, while changing visitor trends reward museums that prepare the right displays at the right time. Cooperation is possible when one museum supplies a missing fossil piece to another, but after five rounds only the director with the most prestige wins.
