Anything from Leader Games and illustrated by Kyle Ferrin (Root, Oath, Fort...) feels like cheating but still, I absolutely adore their art style
Everdell, Photosynthesis, Parks, look nice as well
I also bought an updated edition of Costa Ruana just because of the illustrations: https://www.pamwishbow.com/client-work/project-four-yjynj-pafyx
Maybe I'm just a bird man but Wingspan is absolutely stunning. I bought second copies of the base game and addons to put cards into a binder
Being a bird fan is just the healthy sane thing to do, it isn’t a niche hobby it is a pleasure of being on earth that everyone should enjoy.
Wingspan is gorgeousssss.
The app is too!
When I first heard about Wingspan app I dismissed it in an instant - why do I want to sit in front of the screen instead of being at the table? As someone working in IT boardgames are my escape from virtual world. But the game is phenomenal - cards have animations, birds make sounds and in the Polish version they have hired legendary Krystyna Czubówna (most famous voice actor) to read bird trivia. 10/10.
I agree and I think that dynamic is definitely at play but it is eclipsed by the immediately evident truth that the digital game is as much a genuine love letter to birds wearing the disguise of an awesome strategy game as the board game itself.
A love letter is a love letter, the details of what medium the letter is written in doesn't matter, and what better crush to write a love letter to than the birds bursting wild and free into even the most terraformed artificial human environments.
.....Do you think you could teach a crow to play wingspan?
I too am a bird man but I've asked my non-birdman friends who say that the game is indeed stunning.
It helps that the game is also enjoyable to play.
BIIIIIIRRDMAAAAAAANNNN
I was hopping in to comment wingspan and then immediately realized of course everyone had already been talking about how beautiful this game is
Wyrmspan really brings it home for me personally, while also being a more fleshed-out and mature version of Wingspan
I miss the educational aspect of bird's trivia but I guess that's expected from a game about dragons
There's a whole book of dragon facts
Yeah but looking up the specific dragon you're playing is a whole separate thing to do as opposed to it just being on the card in wingspan.