Games like Wingspan
If Wingspan is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wyrmspan, Gem Rush and Fortune Avenue — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cozy and relaxing. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Wingspan is a strategy game released in 2020 by Monster Couch, adapted from the award-winning board game. Players build wildlife preserves across three habitats using engine-building mechanics with automatic scoring, karma systems, and starting hand selection. The game supports solo play against an AI opponent and online cooperative multiplayer for up to five players. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, cozy, relaxing, and whimsical, with animated bird cards featuring actual bird calls and songs. Reviewers highlight that the narrated bird facts presented after playing each card are genuinely interesting, and players appreciate the fast setup with no physical mess. The game is verified on Steam Deck and is priced at $9.99 USD, achieving 95% positive from 6321 Steam reviews.
About Wingspan: Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Players who liked Wingspan also play
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Wyrmspan
WHY THIS
Top pick for Wingspan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Wyrmspan is an engine-building, card-driven strategy game for 1 to 5 players. Play as an amateur dracologist discovering a world of dragons. Excavate caves and explore your sanctuary. Entice dragons and chain their abilities to create powerful combos.
Gem Rush
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Wingspan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
The well-loved board game comes to Steam. This mountain is rich in mystic gems. Combine gems to open up new rooms, providing new ways to dig up gems. Race against other players or race together against the clock to dig the greatest mine in this fast-paced, easy-to-learn strategy game.
Fortune Avenue
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Wingspan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?
Root
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Wingspan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
Chai
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Wingspan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Chai is the digital adaptation of the card game of the same name created by Dan and Connie Kazmaier developed by "Steeped Games". It can be played with 1-5 players.
Everdell
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Wingspan.
Ranked #6 for Wingspan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!
Quilts and Cats of Calico
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Wingspan.
Ranked #7 for Wingspan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Quilts and Cats of Calico is a wholesome, award-winning complex puzzle game for 1 to 4 players. Meet adorable cats and sew the coziest quilts. Compete with other players in multiplayer mode, play solo, or delve into the story of a quilter sewing their way through the city of cats.
Flamecraft
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Wingspan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Flamecraft is a 1-5 player cozy strategy game filled with magic. Become a Flamekeeper and help adorable dragon artisans find the perfect home. Enchant the town’s stores and fill them with dragon cards as you watch the whimsical shopping district come to life.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Wingspan
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Wyrmspan
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Wingspan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Wyrmspan is an engine-building, card-driven strategy game for 1 to 5 players. Play as an amateur dracologist discovering a world of dragons. Excavate caves and explore your sanctuary. Entice dragons and chain their abilities to create powerful combos.
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Shares engine building with Wingspan.
Reviewers of Wingspan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Wingspan.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
EarthX
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Wingspan.
Reviewers of Wingspan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!
Evolution
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Wingspan cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Evolution is an atmospheric arcade with elements of a runner performed in an interesting visual style, in which your task is to bring your little character to the end of each level, avoiding the many dangers that await him at every turn.
Everdell
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Wingspan.
Reviewers of Wingspan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!
Ark Nova
WHY THIS
Shares turn based strategy with Wingspan.
Reviewers of Wingspan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Wingspan.
Plan and build a modern, scientifically managed zoo to support conservation projects in an acclaimed strategy board game.
Dry Meadow
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Wingspan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Fight, sneak and scavenge through lands left altered after an unknown catastrophe from the Soviet Union. Light fires to stay warm. Drink vodka to stay sane.
Endangered
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Wingspan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Wingspan.
Aliens are invading Earth and are taking out Earths military assets. Join them in the conquest of planet Earth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wingspan at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wingspan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wingspan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wingspan on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wingspan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Wingspan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wingspan on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wingspan.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Wingspan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wingspan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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More from Monster Couch
Other recommendable Steam games by Monster Couch, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Quilts and Cats of Calico
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Wingspan.
Another title from Monster Couch, the studio behind Wingspan. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Quilts and Cats of Calico is a wholesome, award-winning complex puzzle game for 1 to 4 players. Meet adorable cats and sew the coziest quilts. Compete with other players in multiplayer mode, play solo, or delve into the story of a quilter sewing their way through the city of cats.
Die for Valhalla!
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wingspan.
Another title from Monster Couch, the studio behind Wingspan. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
In the land of Vikings a monstrous portal has opened. The Great Old One is plotting to take over the world. Chaos spreads far and wide... and the party's just getting started! Novice Valkyries along with their new mysterious friend set out to save the world. What could possibly go wrong?
Tetsumo Party
WHY THIS
Another title from Monster Couch, the studio behind Wingspan. Shares Indie with Wingspan.
It's Tetsumo Party time! Help sumo warriors win in a hilarious competition. Control their arms and legs to fit the incoming bamboo wall or… drop out in the most ridiculous way!
Flamecraft
WHY THIS
Another title from Monster Couch, the studio behind Wingspan. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Flamecraft is a 1-5 player cozy strategy game filled with magic. Become a Flamekeeper and help adorable dragon artisans find the perfect home. Enchant the town’s stores and fill them with dragon cards as you watch the whimsical shopping district come to life.
Wyrmspan
WHY THIS
Another title from Monster Couch, the studio behind Wingspan. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Wyrmspan is an engine-building, card-driven strategy game for 1 to 5 players. Play as an amateur dracologist discovering a world of dragons. Excavate caves and explore your sanctuary. Entice dragons and chain their abilities to create powerful combos.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Fortune Avenue
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?
Root
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
Everdell
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Wingspan.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!
Quilts and Cats of Calico
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Wingspan.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wingspan.
Quilts and Cats of Calico is a wholesome, award-winning complex puzzle game for 1 to 4 players. Meet adorable cats and sew the coziest quilts. Compete with other players in multiplayer mode, play solo, or delve into the story of a quilter sewing their way through the city of cats.
Frequently asked about Wingspan
- Is Wingspan verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Wingspan is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Wingspan cost?
- Wingspan is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Wingspan have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Wingspan supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Wingspan?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wingspan are Wyrmspan, Gem Rush, Fortune Avenue.
- Who developed Wingspan?
- Wingspan was developed by Monster Couch and published by Monster Couch, Stonemaier Games, indienova.
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