Comparison

Cascadia Digital vs Hexlands

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Tile-laying gameplay
  • Ecosystem cultivation
  • Wildlife and habitat discovery
  • Solo play
  • Online multiplayer
  • Family mode
  • Pass and play
Features
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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!

About

Hexlands

Features
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Hexlands is a tile-laying strategy game where every match paints a new world. Draw hex tiles one by one, fit them into a growing map of forests, rivers, villages, and cities — then deploy your meeples to score the features you complete. Features: *Fast-paced multiplayer: play with friends in real time *Single-player mode against the game's logic engine *50+ unique hex tiles with rich hand-drawn terrain *Strategic meeple placement: roads, cities, chapels, and fields *Special overlay tiles that destroy tiles or remove meeples — shift the balance late game* *Clean SwiftUI + SpriteKit rendering, built natively for iOS and iPad *Tap to Voice Chat How to play: Place a tile so its edges match neighbors. Optionally place a meeple on a road, city, or chapel. Complete features to score points and return meeples to your hand. Simple rules. Deep choices. A new map every time. Terms of Use: https://hexlandsgame.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Cascadia Digital4 screens
Hexlands3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hexlands at Free against Cascadia Digital's $9.99. Cascadia Digital's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Hexlands is free to download; Cascadia Digital costs $9.99 up front. Hexlands sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Cascadia Digital asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cascadia Digital ships an update every 3 days, Hexlands every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Cascadia Digital versus Hexlands: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCascadia DigitalHexlands
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (1.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#49 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size707 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDire Wolf DigitalDavid Lai

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

Hexlands

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Cascadia Digital

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Hexlands

Subscriptions1
  • Hexlands Creator7 Days trial$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Cascadia Digital free?
Cascadia Digital costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hexlands free?
Hexlands is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cascadia Digital or Hexlands have ads?
Hexlands shows ads; Cascadia Digital does not.
Which is updated more often, Cascadia Digital or Hexlands?
Cascadia Digital ships an update every 3 days, and Hexlands every 11 days. Most recently, Cascadia Digital was updated on November 12, 2026 and Hexlands on November 9, 2026.

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