Guide The World To Salvation In Tribes Of The Wind Board Game

October 10, 2022 by brennon

La Boite de Jeu is on the cusp of releasing a new board game that caught my eye due to its mechanics and its stunning artwork (by Vincent Dutrait!). Joachim Thôme has been working away on Tribes Of The Wind, a board game where your Guides work to reinvigorate civilisation after pollution has ravaged the world. Quite apt for this day and age.

Tribes Of The Wind // La Boite de Jeu

During a game of Tribes of The Wind, you will be playing as a guide who can use their elemental magic to fight the pollution that ravaged the world. You will be growing forests, building temples and cities and securing the future of mankind. Sounds like an easy task right?

Tribes Of The Wind - Board // La Boite de Jeu

You will be taking cards from your hand in order to collect resources (water), move your characters, cleanse pollution and also plant forests. The interesting twist here is that the way that your card works is dependent on what's IN your hand AND also what's shown on the back of your opponent's cards!

This might mean that you need to have a certain selection of elements in your hand to gain the benefits of the cards or own more of a particular element than those sitting to the left and right of you. It's a fun little puzzle that means you're going to be engaged with the other players around the table, always looking to see what they are doing and how.

Tribes Of The Wind - Cards // La Boite de Jeu

You can also take your time to build Temples which will give you bonuses during gameplay and help when scoring victory points at the end of the game. Finally, you can build a Village and this is where most of your points are going to come from. Villages are great as they can give you bonuses and help get to the end of the game but humanity will always generate pollution. So, you will need to work out the right balance when it comes to setting up Villages on your board.

Each Guide in the game comes with a series of special abilities which can change gameplay and with five different guides to choose from, there is plenty of space for replayability. I do like a bit of asymmetrical gameplay!

Once the fifth village has been built, the game starts to come to an end. The person with the most points wins and is seen as the best of the Tribes when it comes to keeping the world ship shape! Learn more by checking out the Rules!

Do you like the sound of Tribes Of The Wind?