Stonemaier Games | Wingspan 2nd Edition | Board Game | Ages 10+ | 1-5 Players | 40-70 Minute Playing Time, Mixed Colours

I found this boardgame fun, easy to learn and play. Each round would take around 30-40 min for 2 people. I always learn something new about birds when playing because the cards have "fun facts" about the species on them. This is one of my favorites boardgames, very beautiful and well thought.

Really interesting game with beautiful artwork. It does take some time to get familiar with how the game works and how you score but once you understand it’s a clever strategy game. There are different ways to play the game and a version to play on your own. Beware it can take a long time to finish the game especially when you’re learning the game, so prepare lots of time.

I had played this game before purchasing and I did need help initially playing the game. But, playing with other board games they loved it and eventually bought an expansion to this game

My family love this game, we all have our own sets so have bought multi times.

Learning takes sometime but it is very fun once you used to.

The game has a lot of different aspects to it which seemed daunting at first, however the premise is quite simple - to win, you need to have the most points by the end of the 4th round. It's a fun game and is visually very pleasing, with some bird facts thrown in. I'd suggest watching a video and learning as you play rather than reading all the rules first.

Note: There is a very well made software version of this game available on PC, iOS and Android for a much lower price than the physical edition if you’re just looking to try it out, or maybe get a tutorial. Well worth a peep.Wingspan is a fairly straightforward engine building game in which you play birds into a choice of habitats (woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands) for points which are all counted up at the end of the game to decide the victor. Each bird has its own special effect, which over the course of the game combine with the effects of other adjacent birds to create large combos to more efficiently gather food, eggs and more bird cards to play. The first few turns don’t feel particularly rewarding, but as your arrangement fills up, it creates a satisfying system of synergies - “I will do this, which gets me this, and this too, and because of that, I can do this and that and get these as well.”While this is undeniably fun, it’s not particularly competitive. Some may relish the chilled layback nature of just playing their own little game on their own board which is almost entirely self contained (with just a few small exceptions) and just comparing at the end who did the best, whereas others will lament that lack of direct interactivity with other players. This isn’t a game for those that relish sabotaging other players around them as much as possible.The games components are really quite lovely. Little food tokens that have their own little lidded tubs to keep them in, dinky colourful eggs that look like they should contain chocolate (but don’t!), and a nice container to keep all the cards in, but the real pièce de résistance has to be the little dice rolling tower in the shape of a little wooden bird house. It’s a really nice touch that makes the whole game feel very classy. Neat as a pin all around!In terms of strategy and balance. I have very little negative to say. Because high scores can be achieved in a number of different ways, players are very rarely in a position where they were doomed from the start, destined to fail. It CAN absolutely still happen, but the elegant design allows you to circumnavigate those obstacles most of the time. In the approx 30 games I’ve played so far, I’ve only had a fully fledged starting fail 2 or 3 times max. If you pivot your original strategy soon enough, you can nearly always come out with a respectable score at the very least.So yes, all in all I heartily recommend Wingspan. It’s really quite straightforward once you’ve played a game or two, and works quite well in a more social gaming session, allowing people to just chat and have fun without having to spend the entire time obsessing over what everyone else is doing. It’s lovely to look at, easy to set up and pack away and is very replayable. Good stuff!

bought as a gift but now I want one for myself :)