Cascadia Landmarks Review - A Decent Expansion For A Great Game

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In Cascadia: Landmarks expansion, players create sprawling habitats and place beautiful natural landmarks within them. Landmarks give each environment its own look and feel, while also providing dynamic endgame scoring bonuses!
In addition to the Landmarks module, this expansion includes more unique wildlife scoring cards and habitat tiles to add variety and enough components to play Cascadia with 5-6 players.

TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:07:59 - What I Think Of The Expansion
0:12:56 - Final Thoughts
0:14:58 - Recommendations

5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.

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[huuuze]

@BoardGameCo, there's a thread of BGG that says the tile backs and card backs do not match the original. In addition, the scoring card sizes differ from the original. Can you confirm?

[Karwacs]

This dude gave the best explanation of how to play the game! THANK YOU! Everyone else just beat around the bush! Straight up hero!

[guandjs]

Great review! I like the balanced and nuanced viewpoints you gave…made a lot of sense. Thanks.

[jamessherman]

Alex, I’m considering getting Cascadia and Landmarks since it’s a tile laying game and will support 5 - 6 players. That’s great that Cascadia will play well with varying skill levels. That’s what I’m looking for, for various game groups. You mentioned that you play other games for a higher player count, what are they? Recently got 7 Wonders Architects since it’s a gateway game and supports up to 7 players. Our game night group seems to be growing on some occasions. Thanks for your analysis of Landmarks expansion!

[MerrillWhiteKalEl]

This is a must buy for me. Cascadia is one of my favorite games and I have played it over 200 times. I just want more. 😊

[jameskirk]

Thank you for the great review! I have yet to try out base Cascadia but I am eager to.

[tjoris]

It's pretty much what I thought it would be. Cascadia is such a perfect balance of simple rules and strategic depth that there really isn't much you can do to improve the experience.

[DashOr]

Thx for the review. I was just wondering whether I needed the expansion or not. Perfect timing :)

[geraldcamper]

BGG has a forum talking about the back of the tiles are slightly different in color, but enough to notice.
Do you see this?
And thank for all you do for us.

[GeneralKetchup]

Great video! I love Cascadia (10/10) and wonder if this will actually make me play it less. My experience is trying to decouple the expansion from the base game when playing with new players. Also, Cascadia is a very pleasant mellow game that my group doesn't suffer from AP, this sounds like it might cause AP for us.
Also, will both games fit in the same box?

[jenniferhebb]

The new challenge track is where I was addicted before and like to jump into it again.

[ScytheNoire]

Good to know it's not a requirement expansion unless you play a lot and need more variety.

[alanswift]

Really appreciate this type of honest review!!

[longtreecityltc]

Can I just buy the new scoring cards? The other stuff in the expansion isn't necessary.

[joachim]

I mostly ordered this for the new animal cards. The other additions sounds nice, but not necessary. I'n fine with that and i'm looking forward to the expansion.

[jelledaems]

Cascadia is one of my most played games, so I do see the advantage of getting this expansion. Thank you for the review!

[happypancakes]

Hey Alex! Will you review Tesseract and The Vale of Eternity any time soon?

[melski]

It's about what I expected from the expansion, I'll be glad to be adding it into my box. Even if I put the landmarks else where. Thanks for the review.

[thealternativeroundtable]

Very useful hearing your opinions on this one - thanks!

[FatherLizard]

Literally just want the new animal point cards