2021Scott Almes
- Videos
- 101
- Creators
- 59
1 - 4 players30 - 60 minHeavy weight

2025Tim Mierzejewski
Mainly reviews. Aetherspire is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 5 reviews, 1 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
The realm of Elementis, once a harmonious balance of earth, air, fire, and water, is now under siege. Elemental Aetherfiends have dispatched waves of invaders to drain our aethercore, the realm's lifeblood, causing chaos to reign. You and your companions must build powerful elemental spires to lure away and defeat these invaders. As each spire grows stronger, it will unleash a devastating resurgence against the Aetherfiends. Can you restore balance before it's too late? Aetherspire is a cooperative 3D tile placement and tower defense game for 1-4 players. You and your companions will take on the role of Elementis heroes, working together to mold elemental power into four spires, one of each element: earth, air, fire, and water. A spire is a set of four floor tiles, one on top of another, all of the same element. Each time you complete a spire, that element's aether fiend is defeated. Once all four aether fiends have been defeated, the heroes share in glorious victory, having restored balance to the realm of Elementis! However, if the precious aethercore is depleted, or if you take too long to defeat the aether fiends, then the heroes lose the game, and chaos will overtake your world! -description from the publisher
Aetherspire has 11 videos from 8 creators: 5 reviews, 1 playthrough, 2 unboxings and 3 other videos. They date from 2024 to August 2026.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Is Aetherspire a new cooperative classic? TCbH Review" by The Cardboard Herald. 4 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Aetherspire | Playthrough" by Meet Me At The Table.
If you like it, try Tiny Epic Dungeons, The Reckoners, Run Fight or Die: Reloaded or D-Day Dice (Second Edition), which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2026.
2021Scott Almes
1 - 4 players30 - 60 minHeavy weight
2018Brett Sobol, Seth Van Orden
1 - 6 players60 - 100 minMedium weight
2019Richard Launius, Jason Maxwell
1 - 4 players20 - 40 minMedium weight
2019Emmanuel Aquin
1 - 4 players45 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
The realm of Elementis, once a harmonious balance of earth, air, fire, and water, is now under siege. Elemental Aetherfiends have dispatched waves of invaders to drain our aethercore, the realm's lifeblood, causing chaos to reign. You and your companions must build powerful elemental spires to lure away and defeat these invaders. As each spire grows stronger, it will unleash a devastating resurgence against the Aetherfiends. Can you restore balance before it's too late? Aetherspire is a cooperative 3D tile placement and tower defense game for 1-4 players. You and your companions will take on the role of Elementis heroes, working together to mold elemental power into four spires, one of each element: earth, air, fire, and water. A spire is a set of four floor tiles, one on top of another, all of the same element. Each time you complete a spire, that element's aether fiend is defeated. Once all four aether fiends have been defeated, the heroes share in glorious victory, having restored balance to the realm of Elementis! However, if the precious aethercore is depleted, or if you take too long to defeat the aether fiends, then the heroes lose the game, and chaos will overtake your world! -description from the publisher
Designer
Tim Mierzejewski
Artist
Víctor Pérez Corbella
Publisher
Phase Shift Games
Mechanics