Wispwood Game Review

Soon after I opened Wispwood, the new tile-laying, pattern building game from Czech Games Edition, I knew we were in a very, very safe place.

Wispwood has cats. Animals seem to be in games all the time nowadays. There is a big bag of tiles, with simple, darkened trees on one side and “wisps” in one of four different colors on the other side. There are scoring condition cards, five of which are featured in each game. Tiles are placed on player boards in Tetris-style polyomino shapes, with players asked to complete grids in increasing sizes, from a 4x4 in the first round to a 6x6 square grid in the third and final round of the game.

Wispwood feels like many, many other games, representing the latest in an increasingly, and somewhat shockingly, crowded tabletop genre: the compact, often animal-themed tile-laying game. CGE didn’t have one, but as a company looking to build on a very reliable base of exceptional content, Wispwood fits the bill.

It has only one major flaw: it doesn’t surpass the titans of the genre.

Peekaboo

Wispwood is a tile-laying game for 1-4 players. Across three plays (a solo play and two four-player games), I found Wispwood to play in about 10-15 minutes per player.…

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