Aspens: Kickstarter Standard Edition (English)

Aspens is a game of Strategy fast-paced game for two players, where you harness wind and sun and carefully balance growth with expansion to overtake your loved ones.

In Aspens, players compete to grow the largest forest on a shared board - they must balance their investment in building their "engine" in order to increase their chances of generating trees in the future, with the pressure of having to expand to claim territory and ultimately be crowned the winner.

Players start by planting and cultivating a forest space adjacent to each water tile. This is where players determine their Strategy initial and their appetite for risk. Then the game begins.

On your turn, you roll the sun die, and BOTH players generate trees for the spaces where they have grown enough to capture the sun. Then you roll the wind die, determining which directions you can push outward. The active player then plants their trees, balancing between growing existing spaces UPWARD with more trees, or expanding OUTWARD their forests, following the wind. This is the heart of difficult decision making and the Strategy comes into play - balancing future investment with rapid expansion.

Play continues until all spaces are claimed, and the player with the most spaces is crowned the winner!

—publisher description