Upon its release, Cascadia received critical success, with reviewers praising its components, accessibility, and strategy, but also noting its lack of player interaction.

Cascadia won the 2022 Spiel des Jahres and the 2023 International Gamers Award for the Best solo game.

Reviewing from Paste Magazine, Keith Law considered it to be one of the best games of 2021, praising the combination of strategy, ease of play, replayability, solo mode, and the campaign-like scenarios.

[5] Cascadia subsequently won the 2022 Spiel des Jahres, with the jury stating that "[the] two-part puzzle is especially successful, requiring players to find a good balance between matching landscape tiles and playing the right animal symbols.

The modular rule cards give the game a high level of replayability, presenting players with new challenges every time, as well as an optional campaign mode".