A Bauman Games release · Out now on Android · iOS soon
Chimera
Real animals. Strange splices. Stranger battles.
A collectible card game built on a single irresistible question: what happens when you splice a great white shark with a golden eagle? Collect real animals, combine them into creatures that have never existed, and battle — solo, or live against your friends. Discover a new one first and it carries your name — forever.
01 · Open packs
Every pack is a fresh draw of the animal kingdom
Tear into a foil pack of real animals — apex predators, armored defenders, restless swarms. Send your field team on expeditions and they return with free cards, no payment required.
Each card arrives with its own environment, size, and a dossier of dry field notes. The pull is the point: you never quite know what crawls, flies, or swims out.
02 · Collect
Fifty-four real animals. Thousands of chimeras.
Komodo dragons, black mambas, tardigrades, sky-bound sharks — a curated roster of just 54 real species, each illustrated and annotated with its traits, environment, and size.
Splice them together and those 54 become thousands of creatures that have never existed. Sort by rarity, filter by trait, and build the collection that feeds every splice and battle deck.
03 · Splice · the heart of the game
Make a creature that has never existed
Pick two animals — or three, for the brave. The Splicer decides what they would have become: a hybrid named and illustrated for the first time. Harpy eagle × snapping turtle becomes Talon Snap.
The first player to discover any new chimera is credited as its discoverer — forever. Every splice is a small act of creation that no one has ever seen.
04 · Battle
Three lanes. Six turns. Take two to win.
Draft a deck and fight across three lanes — Land, Water, and Air. Each turn brings more energy; spend it on your creatures' cost, power, and abilities, and take two of the three lanes to win the match.
Face an adaptive opponent that grows sharper as you climb your Battle Rank — or challenge a friend to a live match. Add friends with a share code, send a battle request, and duel in real time: both of you picking, locking in, and revealing each turn together.
Lane Conditions twist the rules mid-battle, and everything you do — battle, splice, trade — earns XP toward new levels, rewards, and the weekly leaderboard. You fight with the cards you spliced and collected yourself.
05 · Trade with real players
A real economy of real creatures
Every card is yours to keep, sell, or trade. Browse player listings, price your duplicates, and hunt the one creature your collection is missing.
Serial numbers and editions make some cards far rarer than others — and the market decides what they're worth.
06 · Limited editions
Drops that never come back
Timed editions — Steampunk reskins, Polished Summit runs, Mythic pulls — appear for a window and then close for good.
Rarity tiers run from common to mythic, each with its own foil and serial number. When a drop ends, the only way to get one is from another player.
Discover it first
Your name on a species that didn't exist yesterday
"The first time a brand-new chimera materializes with your name stamped on it as the discoverer, you understand the whole game."
Out now on Android
Start your collection
Free to play — field expeditions bring back free cards, no payment required. iOS coming soon.
Made by Bauman Games
Chimera is the first release from Bauman Games, LLC, a small family studio in the United States making collection-driven games we wanted to play ourselves — illustrated with care, written with a sense of humor, and built to respect the player's time and wallet.
To follow along or hear when Chimera reaches iOS, reach out at hello@baumangames.com.