Cascadia: Core Board Game Plus Kickstarter Promo Mini-Expansion (Kickstarter Special)

Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 8.83
Players: 1 to 4
Published: 2021
Content Notes: Kickstarter Edition of Cascadia Board Game by Flatout Games. Includes core game, Mini expansion including 5 Wildlife Scoring Cards, 1 Rule sheet, and all other unlocked stretch goals. Please note: unless otherwise stated paid add ons from the Kickstarter Campaign are not included.

Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.

Cascadia is a beautiful strategy board game for 1-4 players that plays in 30-45 minutes.

In Cascadia, players compete to create the most harmonious ecosystem by selecting and adding habitats and wildlife to their environment. The goal in placing habitat tiles is to create contiguous corridors by matching rivers, prairies, wetlands, forests, and mountains. Once habitats are placed, players populate them with the wildlife species that each habitat supports. Each species has their own spatial requirements and connections to one another and their ecosystem! 

Cascadia is a modular, dual-layer puzzle, with variable scoring conditions that is simple to learn, but challenging to master!

Cascadia comes with a variety of spatial wildlife goals allowing you to mix and match new challenges each and every time you play! There are hundreds of unique puzzles to explore! Create stunningly beautiful terrain maps as you build your own personal environment, while competing with others for the habitats and wildlife you desire!

Kickstarter backers of Cascadia receive a set of 5 Tarot-sized KS Promo Wildlife Scoring Cards! With the addition of these cards, players will be able to mix and match even more goals. These promo cards are a special THANK YOU to all backers for being early supporters, and will not be included with future copies of the game!

Players take turns building out their own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. Players must create a diverse and harmonious ecosystem as each animal species has a different spatial preference, and each habitat must be placed to reduce fragmentation and create wildlife corridors. Cascadia involves a unique dual-layer puzzle that progresses over time as more habitats and wildlife are added to each player’s individual ecosystem. Players score points by creating the most harmonious spatial arrangements of wildlife, and also by creating the largest contiguous habitat corridors.

Cascadia also has a Family Variant! If you are playing with children, those new to gaming, or you just want to make the puzzle a little simpler, you can play with the included Family Variant Wildlife Scoring Card. This streamlines the wildlife scoring so that each animal scores in a similar way, reducing the number of different scoring conditions to learn, while still offering challenging puzzly gameplay. In addition to the Family Variant, the Wildlife Scoring Card features a flip side with an Intermediate Variant. This mode increases the challenge of the spatial puzzle a bit, without adding more complex scoring conditions. 

With this range of gameplay modes, Cascadia can be tuned to offer different game experiences to different players, depending on experience level.please contact us at The Game Steward.

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