Finspan Game Review

“This is a joke, right?”

One of the members of my Chicago-area strategy game group posted the quote above with a link to the announcement from Stonemaier Games that yet another Wingspan game was hitting the market in early 2025. A couple people surmised that this time, it really WAS a joke. After doing birds and then dragons, there was no way that Stonemaier was going back to the well with another Wingspan game.

As we now know, Finspan—notably subtitled “A Wingspan Game”—is a reality. And I want to applaud the team at Stonemaier by leaning in for the same reasons why we have a billion Star Wars properties, 10 movies (and counting) featuring the team behind The Fast and the Furious, and dozens of Harry Potter adaptations: money.

Wingspan is a massive hit, and continues to sell well for Stonemaier. Stonemaier has shareholders. Those shareholders, one assumes, like money. Making more Wingspan games is good for business, pure and simple. And while it is commonplace for gamers in my network to try and minimize the effect Wingspan has had in the hobby, the reality is that Wingspan—as well as the second full game in the Wingspan line, the dragon-themed Wyrmspan—continues to sell thousands of copies each year. All in, the Wingspan family (so, the base…

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