Fat Messiah Games: Insecta

Imagine a world where bugs rule! Imagine designing your own mutated bug which grows and metamorphoses as it gobbles up its prey. Get a bug's-eye view as you face the voracious Hive insects.

Players design mutated insects using bug cards — head, appendages, and abdomen. Then they try to fight their way out of an underground Hive, filled with real-world desert arthropods, from preying mantises to centipedes. As the mutants defeat their enemies, they may eat them to get bigger, stronger, and uglier. Special rules cover projector weapons, web bolas, expendable spines, pheromones, venom, and armor.

"A really nifty, even scary game ... a clever design of warfare and mutation."
—Richard Berg, Berg's Review of Games

Insecta Titles

Insecta Second Edition — Everything you need to play Insecta! SOLD OUT

Mutant Kit — Starter set, with mutant design parts and core rulebook.

Desert Hive Pack — Evil beasties from the deserts of the world, waiting to eat your mutant team. LIMITED AVAILABILITY

Rainforest Expansion — From parasitic wasps to poison dart frogs...creatures from the deadliest place on Earth!

Trilobite — Monsters of the deep lurk in Earth's ancient oceans. Trilobite brings Insecta back in time, for 250 million years of underwater combat.

Insecta is published as a joint venture with Sierra Madre Games of Arizona. Designer Phil Eklund is an amateur entomologist who has spent years studying desert insects in their natural habitat.

Savage Bug-to-Bug Combat!

Insecta Titles