Cascadia is a 2021 board game designed by Randy Flynn and published by Flatout Games, in which one to four players draft habitat tiles and matching wildlife tokens representing the Pacific Northwest region of Cascadia, arranging them to score points under a set of scoring cards that vary from game to game. The game rewards players for building large contiguous habitats and for grouping wildlife tokens according to each animal's own scoring pattern, giving it notable replay variety despite its relatively simple drafting mechanism. On release, Cascadia was widely praised by reviewers for the quality of its wooden components and artwork, its accessibility to newer players, and the depth of its scoring puzzle, though some reviewers noted the game offers little direct interaction between players. It won the Spiel des Jahres, Germany's most prominent board game award, in 2022, and went on to win the International Gamers Award for Best Solo Game in 2023, recognition of its unusually strong single-player mode.
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Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Connections
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1. Cascadia (board game) (Wikipedia)
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players draft and add habitat tokens and matching wildlife tokens to score victory points
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Players 1-4
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Cascadia is a 2021 board game designed by Randy Flynn
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