It’s relatively quick to play, offers a nice puzzle to solve and still gives you plenty of decisions to make. The number of Habitat Tiles in the pool depends on the number of competing conversationists around the table, but the set-up and gameplay is the same for single or multiplayer. The team behind Cascadia knows that gamers love sharing their hobby and have worked hard to make Cascadia the perfect game to do just that. Each species has its own unique traits to consider, such as its ecosystem, its spatial requirements, and its connections to other animals.

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. Randomly pick 4 Habitat Tiles and 4 Wildlife Tokens and pair them up in a row – this is your common pool. But in that case, it is the active player’s choice (aka yours in solo mode) as to whether those 3 are replaced or not. Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest adorned with artwork by Beth Sobel.Finally set the Nature Tokens (pine cones) off to one side but within easy reach and give everybody a 3 hex Habitat Starter tile. For example, grizzly bears might need to be placed in mating pairs, with no other bears adjacent; Roosevelt elk, meanwhile, should be arranged in straight lines, up to four elk long.

You can use these tokens at any time to take any combination of tile and token available, instead of the pairs laid out or wipe any number of animal discs back into the bag. Because you always know what combination of Habitat tile and Wildlife Token are going to be discarded at the end of your turn, you can almost stack the stack in your favour. Explore hundreds of unique puzzles and build beautiful terrain maps in competitive, solo, and family modes.When you have placed your tile and token, you discard the furthest pair in the pool and then move the remaining two pairs along.

Pick up the latest issue of the UK's fastest-growing gaming magazine in print or digital here or subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Each turn you pick and place hexes to create terrains that provide the correct habitats for the diverse and beautiful local wildlife. We love the easy to explain rules and then the amount of strategy you can put into placing a tile and a token. In Cascadia: Landmarks expansion, players create sprawling habitats and place beautiful natural landmarks within them.Designer Randy Flynn (making his debut with this game) also kindly includes a frustration-mitigation mechanism in the form of nature tokens. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. While it will not be everyone’s cup of tea, if you like tile-laying and puzzles it is definitely worth your time. These can be won by placing a special keystone tile and covering it with the appropriate wildlife token. Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.

And these are cool because you can use that little bonus pinecone on a later turn to either (a) pick and mix a pair that suits you better, or (b) remove the Wildlife Tokens and replace them before making your selection.

Take a journey to the Pacific Northwest as you compete to create the most harmonious ecosystem in Cascadia. Assisted by Beth Sobel’s gorgeous artwork, it requires its players to build a Pacific North-Western environment which, in a Wingspan-ish style, should provide the best habitats for its faunal populace.