Invoke your elemental powers to drive off invaders who will bring bring nothing but death and blight upon your island home.
Spirit Island was an immediate fan-favorite when it came out in 2017. The excellent design, as well as the flip of the typical colonization theme was perfect mix of fun and satisfying. For years it’s biggest hurdle of entry was the price point. If that’s the only thing that’s been keeping you from enjoying this truly fantastic game, now is the time to buy!
Spirit Island Overview
Spirit Island is a cooperative card drafting, area control game with hand management and variable player power mechanics set in an alternate-history 1700s. Players take the role of a mystical elemental spirit and are attempting to drive off foreign invaders. As the invaders spread across the island and spread their Blight, the spirits will need to bolster the native inhabitants and gain additional powers.
The spirits must destroy the invaders or instill in them such fear that they flee on their own. Each turn, players choose which of their power cards to play. Spirits’ powers have differing speeds, meaning fast powers take effect immediately but some slower, more powerful powers don’t take effect until later. Effective use of these powers requires forethought and planning.
Spirit Island can be complicated on the first run. Thankfully, each different spirit has a Complexity rating and a simple suggestions of overall tactics. But the spirits is what makes the game great. Each spirit has their own powers and abilities. This really makes each spirit feel like you’re playing an entirely new game.
Each expansion to Spirit Island adds tons of new content: new ways of fighting the invaders, new spirits, a new adversaries, as well as lots of new powers, fears and blights. It’s a game that’s been constantly releasing new content. But you need to base game to get started, and now is the best time to buy!
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Matt has loved games of all kinds his whole life: board, video, war, roleplaying, and card. He’s worked as a writer for BoLS since 2017.
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