Game Info
Year
2026
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
Complexity
2.1/5
Collection
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Description
Standalone Cascadia game where players draft habitat tiles and wildlife to build elevated Pacific Northwest mosaics
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Good Time Society Discussion at 29:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Next version of Cascadia
- Brand spanking new
- Get your copy directly
Cons
- Have to wait a little while
Thematic elements
- New version of Cascadia
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Roll and Write — Fishing for the uh for these and you're rolling, riding, but it's also trick taking.
- Tile Placement — Fishing for the uh for these and you're rolling, riding, but it's also trick taking.
- Trick-Taking — Fishing for the uh for these and you're rolling, riding, but it's also trick taking.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Oh my god, there's lasers going everywhere.
- We're still focused on board games, beverages, and shenanigans.
- I am the problem.
- Pinched is a game from Mighty Boards that I have not played yet.
- This is the big giveaway.
- Congrats on 100.
- It's a game of woodland critters murdering each other.
- I am the Lord of the Hundreds in celebration of our hundth episode.
- My mission in life acquired.
- The size of it.
- The Spiel Foundation.
- The Doven Center for Play.
- It's the next one in the series.
- The Sagrada Remastered edition, the latest one.
- I don't really want to do any of these actions cuz I want her point or her piece here to get an oversee point.
- I have to battle in two bunny clearings.
- I'm going to go for a dominance win.
- I'm paralyzed.
- This game will never end.
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The Brothers Murph Top List at 24:13 sentiment: positive
video_pk 80422 · mention_pk 195718
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Interesting tile placement puzzle
- Enjoyed the 3D aspect
- Feels like a different game while still being familiar
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Nature, animals, building landscapes
- Alpine lakes
Comparison games
- Cascadia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Building Up — Not only are you building out, you're now also building up.
- Layering — Things are going to be more valuable if they are higher up and you can place an animal so that it bumps up on a higher level.
- scoring — Animals will score in different ways, lakes will score based off of how high they are, animals will score based off of how high they are.
- Tile Placement — The primary thing is the tile placement, placing domino hexomino tiles.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is our mid-year Oscars.
- This is really like the pre-Gen Con the pre-convention season list.
- So, number 10 is going to be a game that I didn't uh know anything about until I saw it pop up on Board Game Arena.
- Cascadia: Alpine Lakes. This should be delivering very very soon.
- This is a standalone version of Cascadia, where not only are you building out, you're now also building up.
- I really enjoyed the 3D aspect of it. But then you still have that kind of Cascadia goodness.
- This is Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trick-taking game.
- This is probably truly my favorite.
- It's a cooperative trick-taking game uh that is set in the Lord of the Rings story.
- In this one there's three storylines going.
- simple polyomino game.
- cozy game for the moment for us.
- It messes with my head in a good way that I really like where it's still super super simple, super easy.
- Trismegistus second edition, baby.
- This game is really, really heavy in general. Like it's just It's one of their heavier games.
- your head will be thumping after this one.
- And now it's all reinforcing stuff. So I can I'm like oh, I know how this works. This is all this is all intuitive and makes sense.
- I think it's awesome. Like I'm so glad this was like I did never expect them to do a redo of this.
- So it's our favorite of the year so far.
- Our July is jam-packed. It's ridiculous. Absolutely jam-packed with playthroughs many of which are going to be games that are releasing at Gen Con.
- Get your favorite picks in the comments below for what you've enjoyed this year so far.
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BoardGameCo Top List at 4:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- meaningfully different from Cascadia
- shifted so much from the gameplay of Cascadia
- definitely earned that five out of five
Cons
- small similarities
- enough extra levels of thinkingness and building upward and changes to the system
- definitely overlap
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Cascadia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The five out of fives I've played in 2026 so far.
- there's been a good year for board games, although it does come with like this weird pressure.
- I feel like I'm being too cavalier if there's a whole bunch of them.
- I do kind of consider five out of fives different categories.
- Recall gives me a lot of the feeling that Revive does, but with more variance to the gameplay and the power combinations and the ways you're trying to build and expand across the board.
- It is such a clever experience as far as how it all comes together.
- Six Susurrus surprised me.
- it is so simple and easy to play.
- Every decision you make is so fraught with what is the right economy here.
- It is such a good clever system that rewards every single choice with such a huge degree of thinkingness behind it.
- I want to play a nice heavy thinky experience, but I don't actually want a nice heavy thinky long game.
- If a game deserves a five out of five, it's going to get it.
- For me, a five out of five is a game that I will sit down and play any single time that I am down.
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Rules Teach at 0:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The ability to stack tiles and build upwards adds a new dimension.
- Alpine lakes offer interesting scoring opportunities.
- The different scoring conditions for forests, meadows, and glaciers provide strategic depth.
- The 'vibes' of the game are enjoyable.
- The ability to undo and rearrange placements is an interesting mechanic.
Cons
- It's easy to get pulled in too many directions and not focus on one strategy.
- The rule about wildlife tokens needing to be placed on the exact same space on a new tile was misunderstood initially.
Thematic elements
- building habitats and wildlife in alpine environments
- mountains
Comparison games
- Cascadia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern Building — Players construct patterns of habitats and animals to meet the requirements of scoring cards.
- Resource Management — Nature tokens can be earned and used to take non-paired tile and token sets or to refresh available wildlife tokens.
- Set Collection — Players aim to create specific patterns and collections of animals within different habitat types for scoring.
- Stacking — New tiles can be placed on top of existing tiles, allowing players to build upwards to higher levels.
- Tile Placement — Players draft habitat tiles paired with wildlife tokens and add them to their environment, either expanding outwards or stacking upwards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The new feature on tiles, alpine lakes. Alpine lakes will be worth points equal to the level that they are on. And if they're fully surrounded by other tiles, the value of that lake is doubled.
- It's so fun to build stuff.
- He's a narc.
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Banter and Boards Convention Walkthrough at 14:35 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- expands Cascadia with more complexity
- reusable animals from Alpine Lakes with original cascadia
Cons
- slightly heavier than vanilla Cascadia
Thematic elements
- terrain and animal integration in Casadia family
- artful nature reserve with alpine terrain
- elegant and thoughtful puzzle
Comparison games
- Cascadia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — choose animals/terrain with scoring objectives.
- card drafting to shape terrain — choose animals/terrain with scoring objectives.
- tile drafting — select terrain tiles to compose a landscape.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- PAX Unplugged was a great time this year
- it's so easy to teach and it created these organic hilarious moments
- this is Mountain Goats, but now a legacy game
- I really enjoyed this one and it's so easy to teach
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