Review
Cascadito
Cascadito is a simple, cheerful Knizia roll-and-write with polished production and enough variety to avoid feeling entirely disposable. I would not readily choose to play it myself, but the younger member of our group responded to it very positively.
- Published
- 2024
- Designer
- Reiner Knizia
- Publisher
- Bitewing Games
- Players
- 1–4
- Playing time
- 45 min
Cascadito is one of those little games that looks lovely on the table and does not pretend to be anything heavier: cheerful, polished, and helped greatly by production that supports its overall presentation. It did not win me over personally, but I can see why it could find its audience.
At its core, it is a roll-and-write built around dice drafting. Those choices feed a rather clever network-building game, as you try to make the most of the results and develop your own plan on the pad.
Alongside the network building there is also some fairly rudimentary track scoring. Interaction seems to come mainly through the choices in the dice draft, while the four different maps/pads add a little replayability and call for slightly different strategies from one game to the next.
Overall, it remains quite simple, and it is not a title I would eagerly put on the table myself. Still, the younger player saw it very favourably, so it is by no means a dud. And honestly, when a small game like this also has a nice presentation, it already starts with a modest advantage.
Source: BoardGameGeek
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