Wyrmspan

Build a sprawling underground sanctuary, excavate magnificent cavern chambers, and lure majestic dragons to your habitat in a brilliant, medium-weight engine-building strategy game that utilizes a dual-layered card ecosystem and strict action-selection limits.

Wyrmspan (designed by Connie Vogelmann and published by Stonemaier Games) serves as a critically acclaimed, standalone thematic evolution of the award-winning Wingspan framework. Moving away from real-world ornithology and into a rich, high-fantasy universe of dragonology, this eurogame tasks players with managing a complex scientific reserve. The core objective is a highly satisfying engine-building race: players systematically excavate three distinct subterranean biomes on their personal sanctuary boards—the Crimson Cavern, the Golden Grotto, and the Amethyst Abyss—making space to house a vast array of unique dragon species while advancing their scientific standing on the central Dragon Guild tracker to maximize victory prestige.

The primary strategic hurdle lies in managing your tight action-token economy while balancing your cavern excavations with your dragon recruitment conditions. Unlike games with open-ended rounds, your turn choices are strictly bound by your available Coin supply. To play a dragon card from your hand, you must first spend a turn playing a Cave Card to physically dig out and prepare a slot on your grid. Once a dragon is settled into a cave, you can spend coins to command your Explorer to march horizontally across that biome, activating a powerful chain reaction of resource benefits—like harvesting meat, gold, milk, and crystals, or drawing new cards. True tactical mastery requires chaining these room-activation triggers to find ideal synergies, satisfying the strict habitat preferences of aggressive predators or gentle hatchlings, and fulfilling competitive end-of-round public goals across an immersive and smooth 60-to-90 minute session.

Game Specs at a Glance:
Age Range: 14+ Years
Publisher: Stonemaier Games
Play Time: 60-90 Minutes
Player Count: 1-5 Players
Complexity: Medium (Card-Drive Engine Building, Resource Management, Grid/Tableau Layering, action Selection, Public Goal Racing)

What's in the Box?

• 5 Player Sanctuary Boards
• 180 Dragon Cards
• 55 Cave Cards
• 1 Shared Central Dragon Guild Tracker Board
• 4 Double-Sided Round Goal Mats
• 100+ Wooden Resource Tokens (Meat, Gold, Milk, and Crystals)
• 45 Punch-Out Cardboard Shiny Coin Action Tokens
• 10+ Egg Miniatures
• 5 Wooden Explorer Meeples
• 5 Wooden Guild Player Markers
• 1 Score Pad
• 1 Strategic Rulebook
• 1 Solo Automata Rulebook Booklet