It would still be nice if games where you invite people didn’t just disappear if you time out (like Digidiced games, where it just says “Out of Time!” but if you don’t actively kick the player, they can still participate). Of course, I do have to mention a couple of things, one of them from my original review (which has been updated to reflect this, but I wanted to mention it here too).Īsynchronous online play in the app has greatly improved since Monster Couch added the 72 hour timer. Sure, it’s just a bunch of new stuff to add to the already good stuff.īut when the game is great, sometimes that’s all you need. Here’s a new goal card that also tries to guide you to playing high-cost/high reward birds to your habitats. One of the interesting round goals is “Total Food Cost of the birds in your habitat,” which encourages you to get either a lot of birds out or at least birds that require a lot of food. In addition to the new birds (81 in total), there are also some new end of round goals as well as goal cards
Some of the new birds even have new “once between turns” powers that can help your food gaining (and maybe power up some of those “Round End” powers!). It’s worth no points by itself, but if it helps you get more birds out in the other habitats, that can only be a good thing. Look at this bird that counts as two birds played, which will just enhance your (in this case) food-taking action. Some birds aren’t necessarily worth points but they will help build your engine by making the actions you take more fruitful. You don’t want too many of them in your habitats or they aren’t going to score much (though it helps that they are worth a few points of their own). Some of the other birds also require hoarding food to make them pay off just when you activate them. Not all of the birds have Round End powers, of course.
The Common Swift can get you up to 5 points per round, but that’s only if you’ve been hoarding worm food for just that reason. Like the Black Redstart above, you can get a lot of eggs at the end of the round if you have a lot of birds and all of your eggs are concentrated on two of your habitats. They’re not super-powerful unless you set them up right, but they can be quite lucrative when you are able to. The Round End powers are actually some of the more interesting ones.
The rest of it is the same no matter where you are playing it) (You can consider this a review of the expansion as well as the app, though here I’m not going to be talking about things like component quality of the actual boardgame expansion. Yes, there are a bunch of new birds in this expansion, with brand new powers that include blue (aqua, maybe? I don’t know) “end of round” powers as well as some other interesting ones. What does this add to an already wonderful game? Yes, the Wingspan: European Expansion is now out in digital, and it is just as amazing as the app itself. Instead, I want to talk about what Monster Couch released just last Thursday, May 5. You can see my review of the app here, where I explain the gameplay, so I’m not going to get into that here. The app even has beautiful renditions of the amazing artwork! Online play oddities aside, the game has very few bugs that I’m aware of and it’s a brilliant digital adaptation of the boardgame designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and published by Stonemaier Games. The Wingspan app published by Monster Couch Games has been a wonderful app since it came out in October 2020.
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