Birdscaping

About this board game

Birdscaping is an 18-card game for 1–2 players that takes about 30 minutes to play. Compete to attract the best and greatest number of birds to your backyard bird sanctuary.

Build your tableau by discarding cards from your hand and activating cards already in play. These actions help you improve your yard’s key features: the pond, garden, and trees. As your sanctuary develops, curious birds can join your tableau.

Birdscaping combines familiar Euro-style mechanisms in a compact card game. Manage your hand carefully, draft cards, and create an engine that helps you gain the resources needed to play increasingly higher-cost cards.

• Engine building: Develop your tableau to gain food, nesting areas, and the attention of curious birds.
• Tableau building: Add cards to your sanctuary and activate their effects.
• Hand management: Choose which cards to discard as you improve your yard.
• Card drafting: Make meaningful choices as you build toward your sanctuary’s goals.

With its small card count and focused decisions, Birdscaping offers a concise contest for one or two players. Work toward stronger card plays while balancing the improvements that make your backyard more appealing to birds.

Birdscaping was released in 2022. It is available as a print-on-demand game through The Game Crafter, while free print-and-play files are available through the game’s files section or at PnP Arcade.