Cascadia Board Game

About this product

Build a thriving Pacific Northwest ecosystem, one habitat and wildlife choice at a time.

A family tile-laying board game for 1–4 players ages 10+, with solo play and approximately 45-minute gameplay.

Draft habitat tiles and wildlife tokens, connect habitat corridors and arrange animals to meet changing scoring goals.

Product Description

Journey into the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and create an ecosystem where habitats and wildlife can flourish together.

In Cascadia, 1–4 players build their own expanding environment by drafting Habitat Tiles and Wildlife Tokens. Each turn presents a simple choice: select a tile-and-token pairing, add the habitat to your landscape and place the wildlife where it can contribute to your plans.

The challenge comes from making those choices work together. Mountains, forests, prairies, wetlands and rivers can be connected into increasingly large habitat corridors, while bears, elk, salmon, hawks and foxes each score according to their own Wildlife Scoring Card. Every game uses a combination of wildlife goals, creating a fresh spatial puzzle as you decide where each new tile and animal will have the greatest impact.

Building for one goal can affect another, so your landscape gradually becomes a puzzle of connected habitats and carefully positioned wildlife. Nature Tokens can give you additional flexibility when the available tile-and-token combinations do not quite fit the ecosystem you are creating.

Cascadia also includes a dedicated solo mode, along with Family and Intermediate variants that provide different ways to enjoy its tile-laying and wildlife puzzle. Whether you are building alone or sharing the table, the aim remains the same: create the most harmonious and rewarding ecosystem you can.

Why You’ll Love It

• Build your own Pacific Northwest landscape with colourful hexagonal Habitat Tiles.
• Draft Habitat Tiles and Wildlife Tokens together, then decide how best to place each one.
• Connect mountains, forests, prairies, wetlands and rivers into valuable habitat corridors.
• Arrange bears, elk, salmon, hawks and foxes according to their individual scoring goals.
• Variable Wildlife Scoring Cards change the spatial challenge from game to game.
• Simple turn structure makes the game approachable while leaving plenty of interesting placement decisions.
• Play competitively with 2–4 players or enjoy the dedicated solo mode.
• Family and Intermediate variants offer alternative ways to approach wildlife scoring.
• Scenarios and achievements provide extra challenges beyond a standard game.
• Approximately 45 minutes makes Cascadia easy to bring to the table for a family game night.

Quick Details

• Publisher: Flatout Games / AEG
• Designer: Randy Flynn
• Illustrator: Beth Sobel
• Product type: Family tile-laying board game
• Players: 1–4 players
• Recommended age: 10 years and older
• Playing time: Approximately 45 minutes
• Game style: Spatial puzzle, tile laying and wildlife token drafting
• Game modes: Multiplayer and solo
• Variants: Family Variant and Intermediate Variant
• Habitats: Mountains, forests, prairies, wetlands and rivers
• Wildlife: Bear, elk, salmon, hawk and fox
• Main objective: Score through wildlife arrangements, connected habitat corridors and other end-game scoring opportunities
• Setting: Habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest

Good to Know

• Standalone game: Cascadia is a complete base game and does not require another game to play.
• Simple turn structure: Choose a Habitat Tile and Wildlife Token pairing, then add them to your growing environment.
• Variable wildlife goals: One Wildlife Scoring Card is selected for each of the five wildlife species, creating different scoring combinations from game to game.
• Build connected habitats: Your largest continuous corridor of each habitat type contributes towards end-game scoring.
• Nature Token flexibility: Nature Tokens can give you greater choice when selecting tiles and wildlife or allow available Wildlife Tokens to be refreshed.
• 20 turns each: A standard game ends after every player has completed 20 turns, followed by final scoring.
• Solo mode included: Cascadia has dedicated solo rules and scoring, with additional scenarios available for players looking for further challenges.
• Family Variant: A dedicated Family Wildlife Scoring Card simplifies wildlife scoring while keeping the core tile-and-token gameplay intact.
• Intermediate Variant: An additional scoring option sits between the Family Variant and the regular individual Wildlife Scoring Cards.
• Expand your landscape: Add Cascadia: Landmarks Expansion for natural Landmark Tokens, new Habitat Tiles, additional Wildlife Scoring Cards and enough components to expand Cascadia to 5–6 players.
• Rulebook: View the Cascadia Rulebook (PDF)

Components

• 85 Habitat Tiles, including 25 Keystone Tiles ( Mountains ,Forests ,Prairies , Wetlands , Rivers )
• 5 Starter Habitat Tiles
• 100 Wildlife Tokens: ( 20 Bear , 20 Elk , 20 Salmon , 20 Hawk , 20 Fox )
• 21 Wildlife Scoring Cards: ( 4 Bear, 4 Elk , 4 Salmon , 4 Hawk. 4 Fox ) 
• 1 Family / Intermediate Scoring Card
• 25 Nature Tokens
• 1 Cloth Bag for Wildlife Tokens
• 1 Scorepad
• 1 Rulebook