Cascadia Digital

App Store Editors’ Notes

Explain the challenges better!!

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.

Great implementation of a great game

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.

Smooth gameplay, solid AI, major bug

This has been a great game for late night solo play action when everyone else is gone to bed. My matches with the AI have been very tight. I found the gameplay smooth, and the tutorial was very helpful in that I had not played my copy of the cardboard for a couple years. I have to ding it though because it has a bug where and I can’t see the bonus token icon on the four hexagonal tiles in the offer until I drag one into play only then does the little white up arrow appear. That is a nuisance. You want to be able to see the white arrow bonus icon when you’re looking at the tiles, considering choosing one.

A Near Perfect Port of a Great Game

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.

Incredible implementation

I don’t think I’ve ever left a review for an app, but given how smooth and flawless this Cascadia implementation is, I felt compelled to write this. It’s just fun. If you like Cascadia, but, like many others, can’t always get physical games to the table, this will scratch your itch. If I had to ding it, it would be for the thing that’s the most difficult for developers to do: the AI. The AI, especially in the challenges, just isn’t that good. I tend to absolutely torch it.

great gameplay, bad music

Well done on the game! Was considering getting the board game and decided to try the app first, now I'm looking forward to playing it in person with friends or family. The music however, is really bad. I think if the acoustic guitar and percussion is removed, you'd have a perfectly suitable soundtrack. Especially the menu screen music - just expand upon that and keep the sloppy folky acoustic guitar/cajon out of the mix.

Almost perfect

It’s nice that the habitat cards can be clicked on to see the rules and examples especially on the hard cards that I don’t typically play. However, it would be wonderful if when you clicked on the habitat card it put a checkmark or something to indicate what you have already accomplished. Basically the same idea when you click on the terrain card it will show you what your totals are at. This would be very helpful if you did the same thing for habitat cards.

Great but a little busy

I was just recently taught the board game and then found this app. Overall it is pretty great. I do wish there was a way to disable all of the animations. There is a lot moving on the screen during gameplay and I find that pretty distracting. I also wish there was a 2d/flat top down view similar to the Catan iPad game. Otherwise, it’s nice to have an easy way to play while not having access or space for the physical game.