Evolved - Part I (Overview)

Over the next few days I want to talk about Bloat Games new DCC-powered supers game, Evolved: Super Heroic Time Travel Roleplaying Game. Currently only Kickstarter backers have their hands on copies. Everyone else can pick it up on the street date, 6/11/25. 

The game is 480+ pages and the physical copy is a hardcover very comparable to the hardcover DCC core book. Honestly production and layout wise, you could easily guess this is a Goodman Game release, rather than a third party DCC game. Retail price is 69.99, which is definitely pricier than previous DCC comic book inspired material I've reviewed (Comic Crawl Classics and Gunzo! True Vigilante #1). However, you might guess from the page count that it's packed with material.  

Interior artwork will look familiar to fans of Bloat Games. Several pieces from Phil Stone and Runehammer that have  appeared in previous comic-inspired releases can be found. Additionally Christopher Torres is a regular artist featured in Bloat Games material and his artwork can be found throughout the book. The writing has been done by Jeff Scifert, Josh Palmer, and Eric Bloat, with Jeff being the chief designer. Jeff has previously done some DCC conversions of Bloat Games video game with the serial numbers filed off monster books.

Crunch wise this is what you will probably expect out of DCC. There are funky dice, classes, 0-level characters,  and wild fumble and critical tables that are varied by class and weapon type. There are some changes from the core rules too, but if you've played DCC or MCC, you won't have problems catching on. I'll dive more into the rules and what you get soon.

Fluff wise this 80's/90's X-Men with a healthy dose of time travel and Rifts. Most characters will be Evolved, beings granted power by exposure to chronal energy. Basically they are Marvel's mutants. There are two timelines featured. Low level play will mostly take place in the near future of 2026. High level play takes place in 2051, a dystopian world where various factions vie for power (or to simply survive). Additionally because of the unstable nature of time travel, people and creatures from any time (or world) could show up. Like the rules, I'll do a bigger dive into the setting in another post.

I think this game is amazing and I'm really excited to talk about it and tell y'all why you should pick it up.