Beschrijving
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).
Gameplay
On a turn you choose a new habitat tile that’s paired with a wildlife token. You then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate 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. Nature tokens can be spend to offer flexibility in choice or for digging towards certain animals.
Ideally you place habitat tiles to create matching terrain. At game’s end you score for the largest area of each type with a bonus if your area is also the largest among players. At the same time, you want to place wildlife tokens so that you can maximize the number of points scored by them. The wildlife goals are 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?
Summarize
The games offers a relaxing and yet challenging experience for all type of gamers. This is an excellent gateway game but also manages to entertain the experienced gamer. Cascadia was game of the year 2022 in many countries and rightfully so.
