Cascadia: Alpine Lakes Game Review

By now you might be tired of hearing me wax poetic about games from Flatout Games: Calico, Verdant, Fit to Print, Point Salad, and of course Cascadia. But it’s not my fault—honest. They just make great games.

Flatout Games newest title, Cascadia: Alpine Lakes, isn’t just a riff on the original, but an all-around improvement. With new animals, terrains, scoring types, and  way to place tiles, there’s something for everyone.

Let’s dive in and see what makes Cascadia: Alpine Lakes so great.

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If you’ve played Cascadia before, you’ll find much that is familiar to you. If not, check out my review of the original Cascadia for a high-level overview of gameplay. Four pairs of terrain tile and animal tokens are laid out, with players selecting one of 4 columns on their turn. What immediately stands out are the new animals (Cougar, Eagle, Marmot, Mountain Goat, and the adorable Pika), and the doubled tiles you’ll place into your habitat. Players still lay tiles around their starting habitat tile, but now tiles can be stacked, to form increasingly higher terrains.

There are fewer terrain types: forest, meadow, and glacier; and scoring cards…

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