Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Place apprentices permanently across four day-and-night rounds, then turn fleeting magical resources into tiles, powers, and Veneration.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Salamandra is a worker-placement strategy game about restoring sacred vegetation during the festival of Litha. Across two days and two nights, players place apprentices permanently, then activate them to generate resources that disappear unless spent immediately. Those resources build field tiles, awaken cauldrons, earn scrolls, and attract the blessings of the Bear, Eagle, and Salamander deities. Because workers stay in place while the available landscape grows, every placement shapes both the current engine and the opportunities that remain for later rounds.
