Feya's Swamp (ML)

In Feya’s Swamp, you lead a clan of swamp dwellers determined to become the most prosperous group in Feya. The marsh is overflowing with life and mana, islands are waiting to be shaped into thriving settlements, and abandoned temples hold powerful deities ready to awaken. This is a strategy board game where adaptation, timing, and smart positioning decide everything.

The game unfolds over 4 rounds, each with three phases: income, turns, and maintenance. During the turns phase, you place workers to unlock actions, then move your boats across the swamp to fish the seasonal catch, trade at settlements, reach the temple edges for rewards, or build new settlements that strengthen your clan’s engine. You will constantly weigh choices: invest in speed, secure the right islands, cash in trades at the perfect moment, or trigger a festival that flips fish into points and disrupts everyone’s plans. It delivers tight resource management with real pressure from the board state.

What makes Feya’s Swamp shine is how physical and strategic the map feels. Settlements shape the islands, spirits and the island totem pull attention across the swamp, and variable objectives push you toward different routes and priorities every game. You are not just optimizing a tableau, you are actively navigating and contesting space in an area movement system that rewards planning and opportunism.

You will enjoy Feya’s Swamp if you love games where you plan routes, sequence actions carefully, and build long-term value from a living map. You will especially like it if you want worker placement with meaningful competition and fresh goals from session to session.

Fun fact: the game includes an advanced mode where each clan gains unique twists, adding asymmetry without forcing everyone to play with the same complexity level. It is a smooth way to keep mixed-experience groups at the same table while still offering depth through asymmetric powers.

Designed by Helge Ostertag and Anselm Ostertag, and illustrated by Mihajlo Dimitrievski, Feya’s Swamp combines strong strategic structure with a vivid, story-rich world.

BOX CONTENTS
1 double-sided Swamp Board
12 Boat pieces (3 for each clan)
1 Island totem
1 Blocking piece
4 double-sided Clan Boards
8 Neutral Worker pieces (White Axolotls)
4 Turn Order pieces (1 for each clan)
4 Score markers (1 for each clan)
8 Race cards
5 Special Salamander Clan tiles
21 Worker pieces (5 from 3 clans and 6 from 1 clan)
1 Rounds Board
80 Settlement tiles (20 for each clan)
10 Spirit tiles
80 Fish pieces
4 Sailing pieces (1 for each clan)
10 Guide cards
12 Objective pieces (3 for each clan)
4 100/200 VP tiles (1 for each clan)
6 Score cards
52 Gold pieces (20 worth 1, 16 worth 5, 10 worth 10, 6 worth 20)
4 Reference Cards
20 Temple tiles
20 Round Bonus tiles
40 Mana Gems
6 Fish cards
1 Rulebook

Number of players: 2 to 4
Playing time: 90 minutes
Age: 12+