Cascadia: Alpine Lakes (Kickstarter Edition)

Cascadia, with altitude.

The Pacific Northwest again, and the same job of assembling the most diverse landscape you can manage — except this one goes upwards. Randy Flynn's standalone follow-up to Cascadia for Flatout Games, and standalone is the operative word: you need no copy of the original to play it.

Turns stay as simple as they ever were — take a habitat tile and wildlife token pair, place them into your growing environment. What has changed is the tiles. They are double hexagons now, and they stack, so you are building out and up rather than only out. The scoring follows the geometry: five wildlife species arranged across three alpine habitats, plus points for how well surrounded and how elevated your lakes and wildlife end up. Habitat and environment scoring cards reshuffle the objectives every game.

Perfect for: Anyone who liked Cascadia and quietly wished the puzzle had a third dimension.

1–4 players | 30–45 minutes | Age 10+

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