Cascadia Digital

I love this game. But the challenges are sooo frustrating. Some of them are explained so poorly you can interpret it in multiple different ways and it’s hard to know if you are doing it right. Show a picture example or something!! PLEASE!!!! For example: “score 3 points for each habitat corridor you have of exactly 3”. 3 what?? 3 tiles with that habitat grouped together? 3 different habitat groupings of that type? Also the daily trek challenges- “points for each prairie directly attached to a forest”. Does that mean one forest one prairie tile? One grouping of forest and prairie touching? I’ve tried multiple different connections and I swear they score differently every time. I waste my 3 attempts trying to figure out how to get the points and it’s so frustrating! Please show picture examples and explain what scores and what doesn’t better. Please please please! I will adjust my review when this has been corrected. Thank you.

If you love playing Cascadia, this is a lovely way to do so. I’ve been playing it daily. Surprisingly, it falls into more of a zen puzzle experience for me then some other digital board games. Pass and play is implemented well. So it is also a great way to get a quick game of Cascadia in without the setup/put-away of the actual game. My minor criticisms are the following. At least on older iPads (like mine), the battery drain is worse than a vampire at an all-you-can-eat-human-buffet. Caught me by surprise. Would be great if Dire Wolf worked out a way to turn off some of the particle effects and such. Another thing that would likely be too much a lift at this point of the release, after scoring has concluded, a way to review how each thing scored on each board. That feels like a missed opportunity for those that can struggle with how to score some of the more complicated animal variants. That said, I still get about 2 rounds of the game in a day worth the money and the battery headaches.

I've been playing this almost non-stop for the last 3 days. Terrific implementation with a good user interface. I love the variety of options included. Although online multiplayer is included, I rarely play online, so I was thrilled to see the many solo challenges and options. For this to be such a new released, I've been very impressed with how stable the game has been. I've encountered a brief server interruption a couple of times, but it's always been brief and reconnected quickly. If you have a compatible iPad, it's highly recommended.