Cascadia Digital vs Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cascadia Digital
A relaxing and strategic tile-laying board game set in the Pacific Northwest. Players explore habitats, discover wildlife, and cultivate the most perfect ecosystem. Offers solo, online, family, and pass-and-play modes.
- Tile-laying gameplay
- Ecosystem cultivation
- Wildlife and habitat discovery
- Solo play
- Online multiplayer
- Family mode
- Pass and play
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Winner of the prestigious Spiel des Jahres board game award, Cascadia is a relaxing and strategic tile-laying game where wildlife and nature exist in beautiful balance. A Breathtaking Journey Embark upon a breathtaking journey through the Pacific Northwest. Explore new habitats and discover the animals who live there as you compete to cultivate the most perfect ecosystem! Wild Strategy Cascadia offers many ways to play and explore the game's strategy, including: Solo & Online Play - Head out into the world to find your opponents, or go it alone! Family Mode - Hone your skills in Family Mode with simpler scoring objectives! Pass and Play - Share your field research with local pass-and-play! 15 Solo Scenarios - Explore new approaches in unique scenarios! 14 Challenges - Push yourself to complete tricky Challenges! Daily Trek - A new objective every day pushes your strategic abilities!
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
Automate scoring for the board game Forest Shuffle™ by scanning your cards. This app handles multiple scans, allows for editing, and supports cross-device QR code sharing. It also includes a card glossary and saves past game sessions.
- Scan trees through the camera
- Automatic score counting
- Merge scans from multiple devices
- Archive previous sessions
- Card glossary access
- Cross-device QR code sharing
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This app allows you to speed up the scoring process of the printed version of the game Forest Shuffle™. By scanning the cards on your table after a just finished game you can automate the scoring of your laid out cards. The App can handle up to 5 scan results per scoring process. The scanning process is comfortable and you can also fastly edit your scan results. It is possible to exchange the scan results by QR Code between your devises. Sessions can be stored and edited. There is also a complete glossary of cards available. As this app is free you definitely need to give it a try... you will be surprised how easy the scoring can get. Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter Features: - Scan trees through the camera - Count your score automatically - Merge scans from multiple devices - Share your results to social media - Archive your previous sessions - Quick access to the appendix - English, German, French and Italian interface - Scan is language independent - Supports exclusively the version Forest Shuffle™ - Supports all Forest Shuffle™ expansions/promos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter at Free against Cascadia Digital's $9.99. Cascadia Digital's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 65). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter is free to download; Cascadia Digital costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Cascadia Digital against 4.9 for Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cascadia Digital has 1.2K ratings behind it against 65, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Cascadia Digital's written reviews are positive against 76% of Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter's.
Cascadia Digital ships an update every 3 days, Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter monthly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Cascadia Digital | Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.9 (65 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better | 75.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 65 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #37 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 707 MB | 504 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dire Wolf Digital | DIGIDICED |
Customer experience
Cascadia Digital
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
User reviews
Cascadia Digital
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth gameplay
- 👍 Great adaptation of board game
- 👍 Variety of solo challenges
- 👍 Stable performance
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and online issues
- 🔋 High battery drain
- 👎 Suboptimal screen formatting
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
From 65 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Makes scoring a breeze
- 👍 Very user-friendly
- 💡 Innovative idea for a game
- ⏱️ Saves significant time
- 💯 Accurate scoring
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent card recognition
- 🐛 Difficulty scanning complex trees
- 🐛 Some cards not recognized
- 🐛 Issues with specific animals/cards
- 🐛 UI/UX could be more intuitive
Bugs and requests
Cascadia Digital
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unexpected player disconnections
- Notifications not working properly
Requested features
3 requests- Full screen support
- Improved cross-device sync
- Better in-game scoring review
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
Reported bugs
17 issues- Cannot scan trees with more than 4 cards
- QR code player scanning not working
- Does not recognize cards 95% of the time
- Does not consider multiple cards on the same side of a tree
- Steinmarder (stone marten) scoring incorrect
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- Siebenschläfer (dormouse) text/scoring incorrect
- Silver Fir tagged Peacock butterfly not selectable
- Deer scoring messed up
- Holzbiene (wood bee) not recognized/implemented
- Zitronenfalter (common brimstone butterfly) missing
- Kröten (toads) and Rehe (deer) cannot be entered for multiple spots
- App not in French as advertised
- Scan function not working for some users
- App takes longer than manual scoring for some
- Does not correctly capture all card constellations
- Ignores lower cards
- Does not count cards from the cave
Requested features
9 requests- Add support for Dartmoor expansion
- Add support for Mischwald Dartmoor
- Add support for Exploration expansion
- Add support for new caves
- Automatic photo capture
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- Add automa mode for solo play
- Add summary of points breakdown
- Add French language support
- Add support for more languages
In-app purchases
Cascadia Digital
No in-app purchases
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
No in-app purchases
Questions
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