Enter Uncharted Waters for Endeavor: Deep Sea, and Discover Alpine Lakes in Cascadia | BoardGameGeek News

In Endeavor: Deep Sea, players explore the vast depths of the ocean, hiring dedicated workers and completing objectives in an effort to chart the environment and help protect it.

The Endeavor: Deep Sea – Uncharted Waters expansion pushes players to the edge with challenging new missions, undiscovered depths to explore, and a whole new team of specialists looking to join your crew and make an impact on the world. Players also get to incorporate new mini-expansions tasking them with saving endangered aquatic wildlife, exploring deeper depths than ever possible, and restoring the fragile balance of the marine ecosystem.

This expansion includes four new scenarios with interesting phenomena such as “Tectonic Split”, which divides the sea in two, and “The Fog”, which blankets the surface in a mysterious mist. Each of the four scenarios includes unique components used only in that scenario, which is a new development not found in the original game.

In this puzzly tile-layering game, players continue the journey started in Cascadia to create the most diverse Pacific Northwest environment as they draft new double-hexagon habitat tiles and unique new wildlife tokens to build out — and up — their beautiful landscape mosaic.

Each game of Cascadia: Alpine Lakes features unique combinations of scoring objectives linked to how the five wildlife species are arranged across three different alpine habitats. Players also score for how well surrounded and elevated their lakes and wildlife are. Habitat and environment scoring cards add unique scoring conditions so that each game provides a new spatial challenge with thousands of possible combinations.

Turns are simple: Choose a habitat tile and wildlife token pair, then place them into your expanding environment. This time, each habitat tile is a double-hexagon and tiles can be stacked. Many of the core game mechanisms are similar to Cascadia, but the twist is that each habitat scores in different ways and your environment is now a three-dimensional spatial puzzle with new stacking and adjacency challenges.