Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia. Use special actions to manipulate your dice, and dynamic completion cards to unlock powerful combos!
There are two versions of Cascadia: Rolling. Cascadia: Rolling Hills features unique content specific to the prairie environments of Cascadia! Each version features unique content - get both versions to play 1-8 players on 8 different maps!:
A Central Special Die that changes the way each round plays out.
4 Environment Sheets, based on a different region of Cascadia, each with its own special gameplay elements.
30 Habitat Cards with breathtaking art by Beth Sobel.
8 Advanced Completion cards for unique ways to combo discounts and bonuses each round!
A mini-expansion that introduces completely new gameplay elements like end game scoring bonuses and competitive objectives to ramp up the competition!
Roll your dice, collect wildlife and Nature Tokens, complete Habitat Cards, and fill in the puzzle on your personal Environment Sheet to create the most harmonious ecosystem in Cascadia! Although the core rules are simple, each unique Environment Sheet has its own twist so no two games of Cascadia: Rolling will play out the same!
—description from the publisher
- Compact box design with potential to consolidate contents from two games
- High-quality components (dice, cards, wildlife tokens)
- Family mode and solo variations appear in the rules
- Appears more complex than the base Cascadia
- Mixing two versions requires careful organization and storage planning
- Wildlife habitats and ecosystem scoring
- Nature-based habitats in Cascadia-inspired landscapes
- Procedural, instructional
- Cascadia Base Game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card drafting / habitat cards — Use habitat cards to guide scoring and placement
- dice drafting — Roll dice to select wildlife and actions for your turn
- Set collection / resource spending — Spend wildlife to complete habitat cards
- Tile/plan sheet completion — Fill in an environment sheet to score points
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- I think I'll really like this
- the most important component here and apart from that yeah these St are pretty cool as well the blue ones here
- two versions ... you cannot play with only up to four players like you would with one of these but you could play with up to eight players
- I love Cascadia that much