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Cascadia

Randy Flynn · Flatout Games / AEG · 2021

Build the Pacific Northwest landscape by drafting habitat tiles and populating them with wildlife — bears, hawks, elk, salmon, and foxes. Each species scores based on spatial patterns. A serene, puzzle-like experience that plays beautifully solo through four players.

Players

1–4

Time

45 min

Ages

10+

Difficulty

Light

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Why you'll like it

Relaxing yet deeply satisfying nature puzzle
Works perfectly solo through 4 players
Beautiful artwork and calming theme
Simple rules with genuine strategic depth
Scenario cards add massive replayability

How it plays

Cascadia is a calm puzzle game about building a landscape in the Pacific Northwest. On your turn you take a pair from the center: one hexagonal habitat tile and one wildlife token. You add the tile to your growing landscape and place the animal somewhere it's allowed to live.

Each of the five animals (bears, elk, salmon, hawks and foxes) scores according to a pattern card for that game. Bears might want to be in pairs, elk in straight lines, salmon in runs, and so on. You also score for your largest connected area of each habitat type. Since the scoring cards change from game to game, the puzzle changes too.

There's no attacking or blocking, but you do compete for the best pairs in the middle. The game ends after a set number of turns, and it's quick to score.