Whether you're something of an amateur twitcher, a hardcore ornithologist, or just love a great digital card game, Wingspan might just be the game for you. A bird-themed strategy card game that can be played alone or with up to five players, this soothing title is based on the award-winning board game of the same name and it's landing on the Switch eShop on 29th December.
The game from developer Monster Couch has 'Overwhelming Positive' recent reviews on Steam and — as you can see from the trailer above — it looks like just the sort of charming, calming experience we need after this most eventful of years.
Let's find out a little bit more from developer Monster Couch's press release, as well as a couple of screenshots from this digital edition:
Discover new bird species and attract them by offering their favorite food. But keep in mind their natural habitat – animals won't settle in conditions they aren't adapted to. Have them lay eggs so you’ll be able to play new birds and gain more points. Roll the dice to gather food and draw cards to expand your reserve. Remember – each of the 170 unique birds has powers that echo real life: your hawks will hunt, your pelicans will fish, and your geese will form a flock.
Wingspan is a relaxing award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. In this exciting adventure, become the keeper of a natural reserve, a shelter for many bird species. Each bird you play can build a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats – Forest, Wetland, and Grassland. Every habitat focuses on a key aspect of growing your reserves.WINGSPAN MAIN FEATURES:
- Discover and attract the best birds in this relaxing strategy card game.
- Play single-player or compete with your friends in a multiplayer mode for up to five players.
- Based on an award-winning, competitive, card-driven board game.
- Find hundreds of unique, animated birds with real-life audio recordings.
- Learn the many ways of accumulating points with birds, bonus cards, and end-of-round goals.
Do you know your Bay-breasted warblers from your Juniper tits? Will you be checking it out this board game adaptation at the end of the month? Let us know if this feathery treat sounds like a perfect fit for Switch with a comment below.
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Actually i was working with my Avian Kickboxer project when i saw this trailer.
Coincidentally about Avian things.
A lot of bird informations from their look, color, wings shape and habitat.
Interested in this purely to see if I enjoy the gameplay enough to buy the physical version. The theme isn't drawing me in but the gameplay and graphical beauty make me keep looking at it as a potential purchase.
i am a bord-game fan, and i have the physical game , it is my most played, a beautiful European engine build game with no take that (introduced only from the first expansion European expansion but always in a light way(you take a food token from you enemy but they always gain something to partiality compensate for it) a lot of cards (150 base game plus another 50 o 70 with the expansion) 10 double side goal round to keep the thing interesting and a lot of bird power
Oh man, love this game. It's so satisfying when your bird engine just starts popping off
@Kiz3000 While I enjoy bird themes, I have brought the physical version to my gaming group and everyone agreed with one player who said something like, “The birds are nice, but you could do this with basically anything.”
It was meant as a compliment—the mechanics are just that fun, although the birds enhance the experience in a way.
While it isn't the best engine-builder out there, it sure is one of the most appealing. I even get my wife to play it with me on a regular basis. It is not hard to learn and albeit its' many possibilities it dfer from paralysis analysis since it is more tactical than strategic. On your turn you simply try the make the best decision of the choices you're given which can drastically change until your next turn. So there is no point in panning out a strategy from the very beginning. I haven't played the digital edition yet, but I hope it enables accelerated gameplay and tidy effect-resolving an upkeep-phase.
Is there a tutorial that teaches you how to score with birds?
Not the koi pond bird game I've been waiting 9 years for that the pic made me think of. 😢
That said, I did recently build a white trash bird feeder and I have been enjoying the birds in my yard, so it's a maybe.
@Anti-Matter What's avian kickboxing? You punch and kick birds?
Whatever next. Toilet simulator
Covid catcher
I'll stick with hair stylist and make up director for now
This is a great board game, and hopefully the digital version plays nicely. I'm a particularly big fan when game mechanics model things well. Wingspan does an awesome job with that. Like the Mockingbird allowing you to lay your eggs in other nests, or the Vulture letting you scavenge cards off the top of the deck.
@Clyde_Radcliffe
Nah.
I created my Avian Kickboxer.
They are Anthromorphic birds in Kickboxer outfits.
They can punch, they can kick, they can fly and fight in the air.
Here is one example.
He is Dave the Dove.
This is great! Can't wait for more board games to come to Switch, like Root for example.
I saw this on one of the Indie showings a few months back and loved the look. I bought the board game a few months back and love it. You can technically play the board game solo against a "computer" but this might be easier.
I was thinking it would be good to design a card game without magic or monsters underlying the theme of the game. Never heard of this one. Might have to check out the physical version but this looks like a purchase for me. If the price is right!
@rjejr Bird feeders are awesome and so is yours! I would love to have a backyard with one of these feeders!
Have the physical plus European Expansion. My daughter never wants to stop playing it. I do have a couple of 30% off vouchers for the Steam version that came in the box, but the Switch version is the one I've been waiting for.
This is one of my favorite board games of all time... beautiful artwork and addicting optimization tactics.
@Anti-Matter Oh I see. I like it! Very creative. I would play a game starring him.
@StefanN Thanks. It looks better now, that's the first draft. Best part, the squirrel who now jumps up on the bottom like Spiderman who eats upside down. I originally built the feeder to avoid squirrels but if he wants it that badly I'm open to the amusement.
Developers' conference room:
"So, about our next project..."
"Yeah, I have an idea!"
"What is it?"
"I don't really have all the details right now, but I was thinking of a kind of board game..."
"A BIRD GAME?! That's genius dude!!!"
l just came here to see the pretty birds
@rjejr Hahaha he deserves it for the effort alone!
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