Spirit Island

Spirit Island is an immersive and challenging cooperative game where players take on the role of powerful nature spirits defending their island from invading colonizers. Each spirit has distinct elemental abilities, allowing players to develop unique strategies and interact in different ways. During the game, participants choose energy cards to perform actions, where the synergy between powers can result in devastating effects against the invaders. Turns are a dance of planning and response, with players deciding whether to use quick skills that immediately impact the board, or more complex powers that require a meticulous approach and a deep understanding of the game's dynamics. In the growth phase, spirits can replenish their energy, expand their influence on the island or discover new powers, providing continuous and strategic progression. Spirit Island also features a variety of opponents, each offering unique challenges and different game modes. This diversity keeps the experience fresh and intriguing, encouraging collaboration and adaptation to the changes that arise with each match. The game is classified as high complexity, providing a rich and deep experience for strategic gaming enthusiasts.

Table of Contents
- How to Play
- Tips for playing
- Game mechanics
- Game components
- Additional Information

Each player chooses a Spirit with unique abilities. Read their power cards and special abilities to understand how to affect the Invaders and help the Dahans.

The board is divided into different types of terrain: jungles, swamps, mountains and plains. Look out for the invader cards which indicate where they will be exploring.

At the start of each round, reveal a new invader card that shows where they will explore again. Build your strategies around these priority regions.

Use power cards to deal damage, move invaders or defend the Dahans. Plan your actions according to the symbols on the cards to activate your Spirit's elemental bonuses.

Balance between immediate defense actions and long-term actions. Weakening the invaders and spreading presence on the board are essential.

Communicate with other players. Coordinating actions can maximize the impact of each round and prevent invaders from building cities that are too strong.

Some Spirits have powers that generate fear, use this to advance on the fear cards and gain advantages during the game.

The main objective is to eradicate the invaders, but remember that alternating between generating fear and destroying structures can be an effective strategy.

As the game progresses, reassess your tactics to adapt to the new invader cards and challenges that arise. Flexibility is crucial to victory.

Main objective

The main objective of the Spirit Island game is to cooperatively defend the island from colonial invaders by taking on the role of natural spirits, using their unique powers to protect the land, expel the colonizers, destroy their structures and increase fear among them in order to reverse and prevent the devastation of the native ecosystem.

Tips for playing Spirit Island

Here are some tips for doing better in the game Spirit Island:

• Communicate with other Spirits to plan effective defenses and exploit synergies between abilities.
• Prioritize land control to limit the growth of invaders and avoid problematic construction.
• Take into account the unique abilities of each Spirit to maximize their influence on the island.
• Use power cards wisely, focusing on fast powers for immediate responses and slow powers for long-term effects.
• Try to protect and strengthen the Dahan villages, as they are valuable allies against the invaders.

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Mechanics of Spirit Island

• Simultaneous Action Selection: In Spirit Island, players choose their actions simultaneously during the planning phase. This encourages strategic discussion and coordination between players, as everyone plans their actions without fully knowing what the others will do, allowing for creative solutions and quick responses to the invaders' challenges.
• Hand Management: Each spirit has a hand of power cards representing abilities that can be used to influence the game. Players must carefully manage these cards, balancing between fast and slow power cards, adapting their strategy as new cards are acquired throughout the game.
• Cooperative: Spirit Island is a cooperative game where players work together to defend the island from colonial invaders. Success depends on strategic interaction, where synergies between the powers of the different spirits can be exploited to protect the native lands and drive out colonists.
• Players with Different Skills: Each player controls a spirit with different abilities and objectives. These unique abilities influence each participant's style of play and allow for various ways of approaching threats, ensuring that each match is a new and challenging experience.
• Modular tray: Spirit Island's board is made up of modules that can be rearranged, providing different combinations of terrain and challenges for each game. This adds variability and replayability, compelling players to adjust their strategies as the island's scenery changes.
• Automatic Resource Growth: The spirits have a growth phase each turn, where they recover energy and acquire new powers. This mechanic simulates the increase in influence and power of the spirits as the game progresses, allowing for greater strategic development throughout the game.
• Action Recovery: Used power cards are recovered after a period, allowing players to reuse powerful abilities and adjust their tactics based on what was effective in previous rounds, creating a cycle of learning and strategic innovation.
• Influence / Majority in the Area: The presence and influence of the spirits in the different areas of the island are crucial to stopping the advance of the settlers. The strategy involves manipulating and maintaining this influence, maximizing the impact of power cards in specific areas to ward off invasion.
• Campaign / Card-driven battles: The invader deck sets the pace of the game, introducing new threats and challenges every turn. The cards guide the expansion of the invaders and their actions, demanding a carefully planned strategic response from the players.
• Collecting Sets: Some power cards offer additional advantages when combined with others of similar types or elements. This aspect of the game encourages players to collect and use specific sequences of powers to maximize their effects when defending the island.
• Solo: Spirit Island can be played by a single player, where one or more spirits are controlled simultaneously. This configuration allows you to explore the complexity of the game in a controlled environment, offering a challenging and strategically rich experience.
• Variable preparation: The game starts with different initial conditions for the invaders and the spirits, resulting in unique scenarios in each match. This forces players to constantly adapt and creates a dynamic and variable game environment.

Game components Spirit Island

See all the items in the game below Spirit Island:

• 4 modular island trays
• 36 Dahan
• 52 spiritual presence tablets (13 of each color)
• 12 effect markers each turn (3 of each color)
• 20 fear markers
• 4 scenery panels
• 38 corruption tokens
• 16 letters of fear
• 20 cities
• 32 villages
• 40 explorers
• 32 energy markers (20 of 1 / 12 of 3)
• 3 opponent panels
• 8 spirit panels
• 15 invader cards
• 36 minor power cards
• 22 cards of superior power
• 32 exclusive power cards
• 1 board of invaders

Additional Information

• Ludopedia link: https://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/spirit-island
• Link Tabletopia:
• Amazon Brazil link: Comprar Spirit Island
• Amazon USA link: Comprar Spirit Island