In this video, we review Cascadero, a strategic tile placement board game from legendary designer Reiner Knizia.
Published by Bitewing Games, Cascadero sees players placing envoys, connecting towns, triggering bonuses, and trying to build the most efficient network across the board. But is this another clean, clever Knizia classic — or just a dry puzzle dressed up in fancy Ian O’Toole artwork?
We take a look at the gameplay, strategy, player interaction, production quality, replayability, and whether Cascadero deserves a place on your shelf.
If you enjoy Reiner Knizia board games, clever abstract strategy games, tile laying, network building, and tense Euro-style decisions, this Cascadero review should help you decide whether it’s worth picking up.
On the 17th episode of OPS, we're giving our thoughts on Marabunta, Oranienburger Kanal and Fromage! What did we think of them? And let us know in the comments what YOU thought of them.
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0:00 Own It, Play It, or Skip It?
0:34 MARABUNTA
11:34 ORANIENBURGER KANAL
22:13 FROMAGE
🎥 0:00 Overview
📦 1:22 Game Unboxing
🧩 1:47 Location Mission Brief
👊 2:39 Punchboards
🗼 4:34 Paris Location Board
✨ 5:44 Stands & Cubes
🎴 6:04 Cards Up Close
👏 9:12 Conclusion
"A 1-4 player competitive board game where success depends on improvisation, creativity, and surgical precision. Travel the world, infiltrate exotic locations, and eliminate high-profile targets - but this time, you won't be alone. Other agents have also been assigned the contract, and they’ll stop at nothing to sabotage your mission and deliver the killing blow. Guns blazing or silent assassin? The choice is yours."
Hey friends! I am back from my cottage trip with my wonderful friends Stacie, Roni and Jonathan! We stayed at an Airbnb in Ontario, Canada for a week and played games, made memories, cooked amazing food and just had the best time ever. I hope you all enjoy the vlog! Thank you Stacie, Roni and Jonathan for such a wonderful trip. Miss you guys already!
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Tom Vasel, Zee Garcia, and Camilla Cleghorn openly orchestrate their oracular opinions on organizing only the optimal order of the oeuvre of games. Ocelot.
Short of time, I'm giving a side-by-slide comparison, with commentary, of the Stefan Dorra friendship-risking game of bribery, Intrigue. 1994 FX Schmid, 2005 Mayfair (via Amigo), and 2016 Igiari. (I think I mistakenly said in the video that that one was from the early 2020s. And how do you pronounce Igiari, anyway?)
Board Gems highlights older board and card games that are still great games today, and deserve to not be forgotten!
Traditional game labels of Ameritrash and Euro are very useful, but how about 7 new types of labels? We used 7 varied fantasy Japanese Clans (from The Legend of the 5 Rings) to describe Top BGG games. This discussion doesn’t fret about area control or competitive/coop so much, rather just what the designers had in mind when creating it. Regardless of modern day kickstarter campaigns or expanding strategy games, these labels apply universally! Though there is room for some debate, just like how dungeon crawlers are a room of some debate on labeling!
Other Games mentioned: Star Wars Unlimited, Azul, Tokaido, Europa Universalis The Price of Power, Uno, Wingspan, 7 Wonders, Catan, Battlestar Galactica, Santorini, Alice is Missing, John Company 2nd Edition, Diplomacy, Unfathomable, Alice is Missing, Brass: Lancashire, This War of Mine
Table of Contents:
Intro - (0:00)
Background - (0:40)
Lion Clan - (1:27)
Crane Clan - (3:04)
Phoenix Clan - (4:21)
Dragon Clan - (5:06)
Unicorn Clan - (6:42)
Crab Clan - (8:33)
Scorpion Clan - (10:05)
Star Wars Rebellion (BGG #10) - (11:52)
Terraforming Mars (BGG #9) - (12:55)
War of the Ring 2nd Ed (BGG #8) - (14:38)
Dune Imperium Uprising (BGG #7) - (17:13)
Twilight Imperium 4e (BGG #6) - (20:44)
Gloomhaven (BGG #4) - (26:00)
Pandemic Legacy Season 1 (BGG #3) - (28:25)
Brass Birmingham (BGG #1) - (30:16)
Our Favorite Clans - (31:40)
🎲 Another month, another stack of board games played.
In this episode of Games of the Month, we’re ranking everything we played — from the biggest surprises to the one game we think is a true masterpiece.
Some impressed us… some didn’t quite land — but one stands above the rest.
💬 Which one would be YOUR #1?
In this video:
0:00 Intro
0:30 20 Strong: Nemesis
3:01 Lairs
5:00 Toy Battle
7:16 5-Minute One Piece
9:16 ONE-HIT Heroes
11:02 Flip 7: With A Vengeance
13:00 Leviathan Wilds
15:12 Mosaic
18:05 GAME OF THE MONTH
20:09 Outro
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