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Collect
A growing catalog of real animals — apex predators, armored defenders, restless swarms. Each card carries its own environment, size, and dossier of dry field notes.
A Bauman Games release
Chimera
Real animals. Strange splices. Stranger battles.
A collectible card game built around a single satisfying question: what happens when you combine a great white shark with a golden eagle? Something has wings. Something has teeth. Something is yours.
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Splice
Pick two animals — or three, for the brave. The Splicer decides what they would have become. Sometimes a brand-new creature, named and illustrated for the first time. The first to discover it gets the credit, forever.
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Battle
Five cards, five rounds, no redraws. Trait beats trait, environment matters, size only kind of does. Or play Wild Battle, where an AI judges the scene and a swarm of mosquitos can win a courtroom.
The first time a brand-new chimera materializes with your name stamped on it as the discoverer, you understand the whole game.
Made by Bauman Games
Chimera is the first release from Bauman Games, an independent studio in the United States making collection-driven games we wanted to play ourselves.
To follow along or be notified when Chimera launches, reach out at hello@baumangames.com.