I love Wingspan, a birding-themed board game with a humdinger of a digital adaptation, but the hardest part about pitching it to board game skeptics is that they're rarely tantalized by the theme. "Why would I play a game about identifying God's most illustrious creations," they whinge. "I want to play games about exciting things, like purchasing hotels and English vocabulary." Well, I finally have the silver bullet I needed to shut those saps up: dragons.
On Thursday, a trailer dropped for the PC version of a sequel of sorts to Wingspan: Wyrmspan, which appears to play similarly but trades in all the tufted titmouses for wyrms and wyverns. As "an amateur dracologist," each player throws down cards with different point-generating effects while trying to build the biggest tower of synergies before the game is over. Like Wingspan, you can play in a group of up to five or go it solo.
I haven't played the physical version of Wyrmspan, but it has an impressive 8.0 rating on boardgamegeek, where i...
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