A relaxing engine-building game where players attract birds to their wildlife preserves. Collect eggs, cache food, and build the most impressive aviary.
The Verdict
based on 48 reviews
Wingspan is an engaging, medium-weight engine builder featuring stunning components and high replay value. While player interaction is low, it offers flexible winning strategies and plays wonderfully across all counts, including solo.
Wingspan is an engine-building game featuring stunning components and deep tactical choices. While luck of the draw and dice rolls can occasionally frustrate, it offers a rewarding, highly replayable tableau-building experience.
Wingspan is an innovative, beautifully crafted worker-placement game centered around collecting and managing diverse bird species in custom habitats. The reviewer praises its engaging engine-building mechanics, high-quality components, and rewarding solo and multiplayer modes.
The reviewer considers Wingspan an 'all-time favorite,' praising its beautiful design, diverse bird cards, and engaging engine-building strategy. They highlight the satisfying components and the rewarding intellectual puzzle of resource management.
Wingspan is an engine-building strategy game where players attract various birds to their wildlife preserves. It features engaging combinations and high production quality.
This video provides a complete rules overview, solo mode breakdown, gameplay demonstration, and final review thoughts for Wingspan.
The reviewer examines the solo mode of Wingspan, highlighting how the Automa system works efficiently and provides an engaging, streamlined single-player challenge.
The reviewer explores the mechanics, components, and overall gameplay experience of the popular wildlife-themed engine builder, highlighting its strategic depth and table presence.
The reviewer initially felt Wingspan was less complex than expected for a medium-weight game but ultimately fell in love with it. They praise its beauty and accessibility, deeming it an excellent engine-building game for both new and experienced players.
Wingspan is inviting it's clever it's uniquely beautiful it has a great solo mode and it's an absolute delight I love this game and good on designer Elizabeth Hargrave for one hell of a dip.
The reviewers explore why this popular bird-themed engine builder lives up to its massive hype, praising its satisfying mechanics, stunning artwork, and high-quality components.
Tom Vasel reviews the bird-themed engine builder Wingspan from Stonemaier Games, highlighting its components, mechanics, and gameplay experience.
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