Too daunting for me

[ProudTiger]

Have no clue what I am doing sigh.

Modern board games are not like my old favs from the 70's like Monopoly which you can pick up in an instant.

I have watched a few you tube tutorials but still could not "get it"

Bought it because I am a bird lover.

;-)

Is this like Braid? Really hard?

[easytarget]

I"m quite bad at this one as well, but figure I'll get the hang of it eventually, meanwhile it's a pretty chill game and I frankly don't mind losing as I enjoy it regardless.

[Ewokalypse]

Basically, you have four rounds with a diminishing number of turns (8 turns, then 7, then 6, then 5). Each turn, you get to pick one action from four choices: gather food, gather eggs, draw bird cards, or play bird cards (which cost you food and eggs). These choices are represented by the three areas of the board: the Forest (food), the Grasslands (eggs), the Wetlands (draw bird cards); your hand of cards, at the bottom of the screen, represents playing bird cards. The challenge of the game is balancing everything you want to do against your limited number of single-action turns.

The goal is to end up with the most points, and points come from three sources: your bird cards, public goals that everyone is competing in, and private goals that only you have. Your bird cards are worth a certain number of points (in the corner) and may give you additional ways to score points (e.g., discarding bird cards from your hand in exchange for points or laying eggs on the card). Your public goals are things like "who has the most birds in their Forest at the end of this round", and you compete with the other players for ranking. Your private goals are things like "score points for every bird you play with a color in its name", and only you are competing for these; the other players don't count.

Hopefully you learn to like the game. Let me know if you ever want to get on Discord and play it online with voice-chat assistance; I'm happy to teach.

[Drust]

You can do it! We believe in you. :)

[ProudTiger]

Too much info for my brain sorry.

Thought this was a "fun for all" type game?

Just way too many symbols and icons and stuff to remember,my brain aint up to it but it can still handle Monopoly.

These really hard indie games bring out the depression in me and self doubt sigh.

[Drust]

Originally posted by ProudTiger:

Too much info for my brain sorry.

Thought this was a "fun for all" type game?

Just way too many symbols and icons and stuff to remember,my brain aint up to it but it can still handle Monopoly.

These really hard indie games bring out the depression in me and self doubt sigh.

The fish looks like a fish. The bug looks like a bug. The fruit looks like fruit. Grain looks like grain.

Where's the strain? In your brain.

Merry Christmas

[seaotters]

It looks really hard at first, I legit thought "I am too stupid for this game" in the first hour, but it really isn't that complicated at all, after a couple hours it all clicked.

[ProudTiger]

Can I get a refund?

I thought this game was fun,forgot how complicated modern board games are in general and bought this thinking it was easy to learn like the classic Monopoly.

Just not my thing.

Too old for this lol.

Brain just can't keep up with all the rules and tiny icons on the cards which my poor eyes struggle to see.

[easytarget]

You must struggle with nearly everything on your PC screen then as this is one of the most chill games you could ever play.

Putting that aside momentarily and pretending to take you seriously if you're under 2 hours you can request a refund.

Not btw by posting such a request in this steam forum, you do it through steam support, something you could have just googled and gotten the answer to yourself:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6695-QIKM-7966

[EasyPickens]

Wingspan is based on a board game, search YouTube for "Watch It Played Wingspan" In about 20 minutes you will have much better understanding of the game. Lot's of great videos on this one. Give it a watch.

[jungle.james]

Play birds into ecosystems and develop the ecosystems. The game will tell you what is needed either on the card or in the ecosystem.

[amebapiko]

Tbh I heard this is way more simple than a lot of board games these days. Monopoly is the most simplistic, even kids can understand that in an instant. Yes, at first it seems overwhelming, I recommend that board game dudes wingspan tutorial on youtube, then play the tutorial in game, then give it a couple hours. It took me about 2 hours of playing it through for everything to click and the satisfaction and enjoyment came in.

[easytarget]

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[FinFalls]

Monopoly is a pretty terrible game and I've never known a group that plays it by the actual rules.

Modern board games can be complex and rely on far greater decision making and 'gameplay' than the family games of the 1980s. There are plenty of good party games out there but they don't play as well on Steam (because party games rely on interaction and "room feel"). Jackbox titles are the only good party/chill board games on Steam, imo.

[ProudTiger]

Originally posted by FinFalls:

Monopoly is a pretty terrible game and I've never known a group that plays it by the actual rules.

Modern board games can be complex and rely on far greater decision making and 'gameplay' than the family games of the 1980s. There are plenty of good party games out there but they don't play as well on Steam (because party games rely on interaction and "room feel"). Jackbox titles are the only good party/chill board games on Steam, imo.

Monopoly still is the best board game of all time,still sells by the bucket load in all sorts of different themes.

It seems to be a very woke and hipster thing to denigrate this game in the intellectual (class) racism age.

[VeeJay]

Wingspan is something I would call a "next step" game. I wouldn't recommend it to somebody who may just be getting into the hobby board game space. If Wingspan isn't your thing and you want something a little less complicated, I would suggest Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, and/or Splendor. All three have digital implementations on Steam.