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Mar 22, 2026·Review·17:43·38·Watch on YouTube

Oakspire - A cozy tableau-building game of wood and wonder (B) Kickstarter Critique Review

Bower's Game Corner

Bower's Game Corner

Watch “Oakspire - A cozy tableau-building game of wood and wonder (B) Kickstarter Critique Review,” a board game review on BoardGameVideo.

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Please Help support Season 15 of Bower's Game Corner by supporting out upcoming Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bacaforrestgames/bowers-game-corner-year-15-gen-con-origins-bonanza-cover Interested in having your next Kickstarter project featured? Check out my Fiverr - https://www.fiverr.com/share/LBGxap Check out the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lucky-duck-games/oakspire?ref=discovery&total_hits=105336&category_id=34 Want To Help The Channel Get Better? Consider my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Bowersgamecorner Purchase games on Amazon and support the channel!?: http://amzn.to/2rTdgsf Get a peak behind the scenes and join my Facebook Group!: https://www.facebook.com/BowersGameCorner For More INfo: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/463976/oakspire-the-builders-of-the-sunleaf-grove From The Publisher: It's time to build, Architect! Welcome to Sunleaf Grove, where a community of animal residents work paw-in-paw/fin/hoof/claw to build a home in harmony with nature – and they need your help! As a Grove Architect, you’ll plan projects, organize supply lines, and transform timber into beautiful, sustainable structures. Gather fallen wood from the forest floor, float it downstream, shape it into sturdy planks, and raise buildings of every size – from snug burrows to towering treetop apartments. Collect, craft, build: it's a peaceful, puzzle-y cycle! Oakspire is a cozy tableau-building game where you'll carefully select Project Cards that represent different stages of wood crafting. These cards can be used in a multitude of ways: Turn them into Restored Wood to fuel your production chain, play them as Company Actions to move, process, or upgrade your resources on supply lines, or blueprint them to start working on a new building! With an emphasis on an environmentally friendly approach, you'll repurpose and upgrade salvaged wood to fulfil contracts and expand your workshops. Each completed project increases your crafting capabilities, and as the game progresses, so does our woodland city, as cozy cafés and riverside markets transform it into a bustling metropolis of nature. But you can't just focus on your own projects! When community actions are triggered each round, they may give you a helpful boost or nudge your plans in an unexpected direction - so keep an eye on the Community Board! The race is on to be the first to build a certain number of projects for the city, securing their reputation as the best architect and carpenter in the city. Maybe you'll even get a statue made of you in the city centre...

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Oakspire: The Builders of the Sunleaf Grove

Oakspire: The Builders of the Sunleaf Grove

2027·James Newman (I)

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17
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12

Mainly reviews and how-to-play. Oakspire: The Builders of the Sunleaf Grove is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 6 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 5 other videos.

1 - 5 players
20 - 100 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Oakspire: The Builders of the Sunleaf Grove, from BoardGameGeek:

It's time to build, Architect! Welcome to Sunleaf Grove, where a community of animal residents work paw-in-paw/fin/hoof/claw to build a home in harmony with nature – and they need your help! As a Grove Architect, you'll plan projects, organize supply lines, and transform timber into beautiful, sustainable structures. Gather fallen wood from the forest floor, float it downstream, shape it into sturdy planks, and raise buildings of every size – from snug burrows to towering treetop apartments. Collect, craft, build: it's a peaceful, puzzle-y cycle! Oakspire is a cozy tableau-building game where you'll carefully select Project Cards that represent different stages of wood crafting. These cards can be used in a multitude of ways: Turn them into Reclaimed Wood to fuel your production chain, play them as Company Actions to move, process, or upgrade your resources on supply lines, or blueprint them to start working on a new building! You'll only get 3 actions per turn, so the key is optimising your supply line and minimising the amount of actions you take to grow your tableau of project cards. Each completed project increases your crafting capabilities, and as the game progresses, so does our woodland city, as cozy cafés and riverside markets transform it into a bustling metropolis of nature. But you can't just focus on your own projects! When community actions are triggered each round, they may give you a helpful boost or nudge your plans in an unexpected direction - so keep an eye on the Community Board! The race is on to be the first to build a certain number of projects for the city, securing their reputation as the best architect and carpenter in the city. Maybe you'll even get a statue made of you in the city centre... -description from the publisher

Designer

James Newman (I)

Artists

Jakub Chełstowski, Longque Chen, Kary Jane, Georgi Karadenizov, Mateusz Komada, Amelia Połtoracka, Rio Sabda, Thomas Bouzillé

Publisher

Lucky Duck Games

Categories

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