I would say that solo Cascadia encourages a slightly different strategy to regular multiplayer mode. The accompanying Wildlife Token can be placed on any tile (new or existing) in your environment showing that animal. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that’s paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. There’s also a Family variant Wildlife Scoring Card which replaces all 5 individual animal goals with a single objective which is great for younger or less experienced gamers.

At the same time, you want to place wildlife tokens so that you can maximize the number of points scored by them, with the wildlife goals being determined at random by one of the four scoring cards for each type of wildlife. And although I can sometimes be left feeling like a poor relation when solo modes are a simple BYOS, the added scenarios in Cascadia offer more.

On your turn, you simply select one pair of tile and token and go about fitting it into your little ecosystem trying to fulfil as many of the animal requirements as you can. Join the community and come discuss games like Codenames, Wingspan, Brass, and all your other favorite games!

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Randomly pick 4 Habitat Tiles and 4 Wildlife Tokens and pair them up in a row – this is your common pool. There is a slight variation in the scoring of corridors for solo mode: your corridors have to have at least 7 matching adjacent terrain tiles to get a 2 point bonus. But, when you feel like you have got your Cascadia wings, you can launch into campaign mode which takes you on a hike through the Cascadian landscape. The number of Habitat Tiles in the pool depends on the number of competing conversationists around the table, but the set-up and gameplay is the same for single or multiplayer. Your Habitat Tile must be placed next to an existing hex in your region so that at least one side is next to another tile.

The Cascadia board game (designed by Randy Flynn) is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. If you get stuck, the rulebook has an excellent description of each one, and the cards themselves have icons and a little bit of text to help. Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Pick up the latest issue of the UK's fastest-growing gaming magazine in print or digital here or subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue.Note that the game play is slightly different in solo mode but it is explained in full in the solo review).

Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.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 — unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item. I'm guessing the game will become readily available again soon but I'm pretty new to the hobby so maybe I'm wrong and I should grab it while I can? But only one Wildlife Token can be placed on each tile (even if it shows more than one), and once it has settled there, no uprooting it to somewhere else!