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I love Wingspan, a birding-themed board game with a humdinger of a digital adaptation<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a trailer dropped<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

I haven’t played the physical version of Wyrmspan, but it has an impressive 8.0 rating on boardgamegeek<\/a>, where it’s also scored at a “medium light” complexity. Just to be clear, this isn’t an expansion or an “expandalone” situation, so don’t expect to plug in any Wingspan DLC you might have picked up\u2014this is a new game with new mechanics.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping its visuals are as lavish as the digital version of Wingspan, which, as PC Gamer’s Jonathan Bolding noted in his review<\/a>, boasts a “stunning attention to detail, and a layout that serves the experience of playing on a PC over mimicking the tabletop game.” While it can be sufficient to play a facsimile of your favorite board game on Tabletop Simulator, it’s always nice when a videogame adaptation stands on its own merits.<\/p>\n

Wyrmspan has no release date just yet, but you can wishlist the game on its Steam page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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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…<\/p>\n

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