Editing Wingspan (section)

==The Game==
The game's genre is "Engine-builder". This does not mean that the game is about [[Sonic the Hedgehog|enslaving cute little songbirds to fuel the construction of your robotic war machines]], although that also sounds like an idea for a badass board game.

When you play a bird card, you play it to one of three rows. Birds have functions, and each time you activate a row each bird performs its function. You use your starting resources to play birds, and then you use those birds to get more resources, and then you use those resources to play more birds. It feels like you're building an engine. [[grimdark|An engine made of birds]].

Some birds have functions that activate when one of your opponents does something, which is about all the interaction that exists in Wingspan. Other birds have a stronger function that you can only use once, right when you play them. Some birds don't have any function at all, but make up for it in other ways (usually by being worth a ton of points).

In addition to the points your birds give directly and earn from their functions, you also get points based on how many eggs your birds have laid, how well you fulfilled your secret personal objective, and whether you were able to beat your opponents at the public objectives. The personal and public objectives are different every game, and the game comes with an absolutely massive stack of bird cards (over 170, all unique) so every game feels pretty different.

The game also has a solo play mode, perfect for [[/tg/|the kind of person who loves to collect board games but has no one to play them with]]. It's a good way to learn the rules of the game if nothing else.