You are a marine researcher seeking to find and observe an array of aquatic life in the colorful Sunlight Zone, ghostly Twilight Zone, and pitch-black Midnight Zone of the world's seas and oceans. In Finspan, the fish you discover over four weeks will generate a series of benefits as you dive deeper into the ocean.

Each dive site specializes in a key aspect of expanding your research:

• Grow your collection of fish.
• Discover freshly laid eggs.
• Hatch eggs into young and consolidate young to form schools.

The winner is the player with the most points gained from fish, eggs, young, schools, and achievements.

Finspan is a competitive tableau- and engine-building game for 1-5 players, where each person plays as a marine researcher discovering a vast array of fish in three zones of the world's seas and oceans (Sunlight, Twilight, and Midnight). In addition to playing fish cards into your ocean, you will discover freshly-laid eggs, hatch eggs into young, and move fish around the board, growing them into high-scoring schools. You will maintain your own discard pile of fish cards, which you will be able to draw from throughout the game.

 Finspan is designed to be family-friendly, with beautiful art,

icon-driven language independence, and positive player interaction.

 There are two types of turns in Finspan:

• Play a fish (paying its cost) into the correct ocean zone and dive site to build your tableau.
• Dive down to the depths of your ocean, triggering powers and gaining benefits.