Cascadia
Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.
In the game, you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile depicts 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game, and you can place at most one tile on a habitat.) Four tiles are on display, with each tile being paired at random with a wildlife token, so you must make the best of what's available — unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item.
Ideally you can place habitat tiles to create matching terrain that reduces fragmentation and creates wildlife corridors, mostly because you score for the largest area of each type of habitat at game's end, with a bonus if your group is larger than each other player's. At the same time, you want to place wildlife tokens so that you can maximize the number of points scored by them, with the wildlife goals being determined at random by one of the four scoring cards for each type of wildlife. Maybe hawks want to be separate from other hawks, while foxes want lots of different animals surrounding them and bears want to be in pairs. Can you make it happen?
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Reimplemented by: Cascadia Junior
Rank: Overall 49Abstract 1Family 7
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Cascadia (2021)
Create the most harmonious ecosystem as you puzzle together habitats and wildlife.
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Game Information
Number of Players
1–4 Players
Play Time
30–45 Min
Playing Time
Suggested Age
Age: 10+
Complexity
Weight: 1.86 / 5Complexity Rating
Game Credits
Alternate NamesCascadia vadvilága + 9 more
DesignerRandy Flynn
ArtistBeth Sobel
PublisherFlatout Games + 22 more
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A beautiful landscape (all the tiles)Completed solo scenario 10 - with an incredible new high score of 111!Cascadia, Flatout Games, 2020 — front coverEnd of a 2 player gameGameAll 20 wildlife scoring cards from the English version of the gameFinished solo scenario 4 in my looong way to become a Cascadia biologistFinished 2-player gameCascadiaThe original insert does the job of neatly storiing all the tiles.The animal cards for Cascadia!Cascadia card holdersThe land tiles for Cascadia!a cozy 2p game with sunshine and teaA game of Cascadia in progress!Cascadia LoverCascadia - In to the Wild
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Type
Abstract, Family
Category
Animals
Environmental
Puzzle
Mechanism
End Game Bonuses
Hexagon Grid
Open Drafting
Pattern Building
Solo / Solitaire Game
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Family
Animals: Bears
Animals: Eagles
Animals: Fish / Fishes
Animals: Foxes
Animals: Moose / Elk
Components: Hexagonal Tiles
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Cascadia Junior
Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.
In the game, you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile depicts 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game, and you can place at most one tile on a habitat.) Four tiles are on display, with each tile being paired at random with a wildlife token, so you must make the best of what's available — unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item.
Ideally you can place habitat tiles to create matching terrain that reduces fragmentation and creates wildlife corridors, mostly because you score for the largest area of each type of habitat at game's end, with a bonus if your group is larger than each other player's. At the same time, you want to place wildlife tokens so that you can maximize the number of points scored by them, with the wildlife goals being determined at random by one of the four scoring cards for each type of wildlife. Maybe hawks want to be separate from other hawks, while foxes want lots of different animals surrounding them and bears want to be in pairs. Can you make it happen?
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Awards & Honors
2024 GEEKS d'OURO Solo Board Game of the Year Winner
2024 GEEKS d'OURO Solo Board Game of the Year Nominee
2023/2024 Årets Spill Best Family Game Winner
2023/2024 Årets Spill Best Family Game Nominee
2023 Guldbrikken Best Family Game Nominee
2023 Årets Spel Best Adult Game Winner
2023 Årets Spel Best Adult Game Nominee
2023 5 Seasons Best International Family Game Winner
2023 5 Seasons Best International Family Game Nominee
2022 Tric Trac Initiés Nominee
2022 SXSW Tabletop Game of the Year Nominee
2022 Swiss Gamers Award Nominee
2022 Spiel des Jahres Winner
2022 Spiel des Jahres Nominee
2022 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Winner
2022 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nominee
2022 JUGuinho Families Game of the Year Winner
2022 JUGuinho Families Game of the Year Finalist
2022 Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee
2022 International Gamers Award Solo Winner
2022 International Gamers Award Solo Nominee
2022 Hra roku Winner
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2022 Gra Roku Family Game of the Year Winner
2022 Gra Roku Family Game of the Year Nominee
2022 Gra Roku Best Two Player Game Nominee
2022 Gioco dell’Anno Nominee
2022 Geek Media Awards Family Game of the Year Winner
2022 Geek Media Awards Family Game of the Year Nominee
2022 Dragon Awards Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Board Game Nominee
2022 Bulgarian Board Game Awards International Game of the Year Winner
2022 Bulgarian Board Game Awards International Game of the Year Nominee
2022 American Tabletop Strategy Games Winner
2021 Meeples Choice Award Winner
2021 Meeples Choice Award Nominee
2021 Golden Geek Light Game of the Year Winner
2021 Golden Geek Light Game of the Year Nominee
2021 Golden Geek Best Solo Board Game Nominee
2021 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee
2021 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee
Overview
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Mechanisms
1–4 Players
Play Time: 30–45 Min
Suggested Age: 10+
Complexity Rating: 1.86 / 5
Year Released: 2021
Designer: Randy Flynn
Solo Designer: Shawn Stankewich
Artist: Beth Sobel
Publisher: Flatout Games