Cascadia

What it is

A tile-laying game about building a Pacific Northwest landscape and placing wildlife in patterns that score points. It plays one to four in about 45 minutes and won the 2022 Spiel des Jahres.

A tile-laying board game about building a Pacific Northwest landscape. Each turn you take a paired habitat tile and wooden wildlife token and add them to your own growing area, scoring for animal placement patterns and for the largest connected stretches of each habitat. Scoring cards change between games, so the puzzle shifts each time. It plays solo or with up to four.

The details

Players

1 to 4

Play time

30 to 45 minutes

Ages

10+

Tokens

100 wooden wildlife tokens

Tiles

85 habitat tiles plus 5 starter tiles

In the box

• 100 wooden wildlife tokens
• 85 habitat tiles
• 25 nature tokens
• 20 wildlife scoring cards
• 1 family variant scoring card
• 5 starter habitat tiles
• Scorepad
• Cloth bag
• Rulebook

From the shop's product page, read October 3, 2026.

Worth knowing

Little player interaction, so it can feel like solitaire side by side.

Skip it for groups larger than four, since the box supports a maximum of four players.