Cascadito is a tiny version of Cascadero. That’s the easiest way to sum up the similarities between these twinned titles by Reiner Knizia. They’re both about placing grouped envoys next to cities in order to move up tracks. In some cases, they even award the same spills of bonus points.

But the differences between them are more interesting than their similarities — and more telling. Cascadito is a roll-and-write game. It also sheds much of what makes Cascadero so good.

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