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Build a bird sanctuary in a turn-based card strategy game, chaining species abilities to gather food, lay eggs and score.
Released 17 Sep 2020
Build Three Habitats
Chain Bird Abilities
Attract Birds To Preserves
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Developed by Monster Couch · Published by Monster Couch, Stonemaier Games, indienova
You are a bird enthusiast building a network of wildlife preserves by discovering and attracting birds. Play alone or compete with up to four other players in a game with a limited number of turns.
On each turn, choose to gather food, lay eggs, play a bird card or draw cards. Playing birds costs food and eggs, so you must manage these resources as you develop your preserves.
Place birds in three habitats, where their abilities strengthen actions and combine into useful chains. Score through your birds, bonus cards and end-of-round goals. The digital game features illustrated, animated birds, real bird calls and species information.
Reviewers often enjoy the combination of approachable strategy and satisfying habitat-building, especially when bird abilities work together into strong chains. Beautiful bird illustrations, calls, relaxing music and species facts are recurring draws. Some appreciate playing solo against AI, while others value the option to play with friends. Opinions are less positive about the digital interface, and some reviewers also criticize slow online turns, the learning curve, random card draws or expansion pricing.
Wingspan - Relaxing Strategy Card Game About Birds for 1 to 5 players.
The officially licensed digital adaptation of Wingspan, the winner of the prestigious 2019 Kennerspiel des Jahres board game award.
You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats. Each habitat focuses on a key aspect of the growth of your preserves.
In Wingspan up to 5 players compete to build up their nature preserves in a limited number of turns. Each beautiful bird that you add to your preserve makes you better at laying eggs, drawing cards, or gathering food. Many of the 170 unique birds have powers that echo real life: your hawks will hunt, your pelicans will fish, and your geese will form a flock.
Relaxing strategy card game where your goal is to discover and attract the best birds.
Single player and multiplayer modes for up to five players.
Based on award winning, competitive, card-driven, engine-building board game.
Hundreds of unique, animated birds with their real life sound recordings.
Multiple ways to accumulate points with birds, bonus cards and end-of-round goals.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 64 |
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| Players | 1–5 |
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| Multiplayer | Wingspan supports single-player and multiplayer play for up to 5 players. Official features list online PvP, online co-op, shared/split-screen PvP and co-op, local multiplayer, Remote Play Together, and cross-platform multiplayer. Reviews also describe online matchmaking, custom/private games, asynchronous and synchronous online play, local same-device play, and AI participation or replacement in matches. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No mod support or multiplayer mod behavior is mentioned. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 11 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 84/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
