Gizmos

Gizmos is a textbook engine building game all themed around building engines! We love how wonderfully streamlined Gizmos is. Quickly learned and easily understood, Gizmos is able to be enjoyed by players young and old without skimping on strategy.

Read our full review of Gizmos.

Res Arcana

Players will become mages who will gather essences, craft artifacts, and use them to summon dragons, gain power, and earn points. This is a tight, immensely satisfying race to 10 points and ultimate victory. Similar to Wingspan you’ll have to select cards to play in front of you that you feel have the best chance of helping you achieve your next goal. Res Arcana begins slow then quickly snowballs into a fevered race to the end.

It’s a Wonderful World

In it’s a Wonderful World you’re working to expand your empire by choosing cards you hope to build to develop your city. Each card you successfully build increases your production power, allowing you to build more powerful cards on future turns. Players will choose cards through a process of closed drafting; selecting a single card from their hand, then passing the remaining around to the next person, repeating this process until all players have selected 7 cards which they’ll use for the round.

It’s a Wonderful World combines both drafting and tableau building into a highly strategic game where you ability to plan ahead will be put to the test.

Azul

Azul is a beautiful tile drafting game that you can play with almost anyone. Players take turns drafting colored tiles from the center circles to their player board. You work to collect different sets of colored tiles to satisfy placement requirements to score points. 

We love how welcoming and tactile Azul is to play. There are multiple versions of Azul to play, we break down the differences between them in this post.

Viticulture Essential Edition

Viticulture is our go-to date night game. This is a medium difficulty game all about running a vineyard. You’ll work to create a successful vineyard by planting grapes, harvesting, creating and aging wines, and then selling those wines to fulfill various contracts.

Read our full review here.

Carpe Diem

In Carpe Diem you’ll try to build a successful city that generates the goods or various building conditions to satisfy the available scoring options. Players who fulfill the contract first remove that contract option from other players selection. Carpe Diem requires some hefty advance planning as you’re building your city so that when it comes time to fulfill the scoring conditions, you won’t be left without options.

Read our full review here. 

Meadow

Meadow is similarly filled with card upon card of nature art you can get lost in. There are over 200 unique watercolor illustrations in this set collection game. You’ll win by collecting cards with the most valuable species, landscapes, and discoveries — just try not to get distracted by the beautiful cards you collect! 

Everdell

When it comes to nature games, Everdell is at the top of the list. Everdell has a lot of similar mechanisms to Wingspan and is all set in the whimsical world of a civilization of forest critters living below the boughs of trees. Win or lose, Everdell is a delight to play every time and offers a really interesting challenge to keep you coming back. 

Cascadia

Featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest, Cascadia is a new favorite nature themed game in our home. We love the beautiful patterns that are created as you place terrain tiles into your ever expanding map that becomes populated with wildlife. Cascadia has a large puzzle feel for players who love a more abstract challenge.

Floriferous

I can’t say enough good things about the art in Floriferous. I could frame every single card in this game and fill my home with them. And it’s no surprise that the art is a hit for players of Wingspan since Beth Sobel is not only the artist for Floriferous, but she is one of the artists who worked on Wingspan as well! 

Read our full review here.

Dog Park

Go from a game about birds to one about adorable dogs and walking them all throughout the city! Players will compete to add the best dogs to their kennels and walk them around the city to earn reputation before getting them back to their homes.

Flamecraft

Artisan Dragons? Yes. Just yes. Flamecraft is another great strategy game that, like Wingspan, steps up from the entry level game play but isn’t so challenging that it will scare off newcomers. The game has some serious table presence and just an overall cozy, adorable vibe as you go from shop to shop around town, enhancing their value throughout the game.

Wingspan European Expansion

This expansion gives you more of what you love from Wingspan. Outside of some new card powers, the game is not changed in any significant way.

Our review of Wingspan European

Wingspan Oceania Expansion

This expansion adds a new Nectar resource, dice, and player boards in addition to all of the cards featuring birds from the Oceania region. It adds new elements to the game without changing how Wingspan feels.

Our Review of Wingspan Oceania

Wingspan Asia Expansion

This is both an expansion and a stand alone two player game. It features new game play designed specifically for two players while still allowing the games contents to be integrated into the base Wingspan game for play with more players.

Our review of Wingspan Asia

Wyrmspan

Wyrmspan is an entirely new standalone game using the Wingspan framework but themed around building a sanctuary for dragons. It is a unique game with many unique elements rather than a re-skin of Wingspan. As it is it’s own game, it is not compatible with Wingspan.