The Settlers of Catan™ the original strategy board game. Your adventurous settlers seek to tame the remote but rich isle of Catan. Start by revealing Catan's many harbors and regions: pastures, fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert. The random mix creates a different board virtually every game. No two games are the same!
Embark on a quest to settle the isle of Catan! Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development. Use resource combinations- grain, wool, ore, brick, and lumber-to buy handy development cards and build roads, settlements, and cities.
Acquire your resources through trades, cards, or lucky dice (even outside your turn). Someone might cut off your road or buy a monopoly.
And you never know when the wily robber might steal some of your precious gains! For 3-4 players. The Settlers of Catan™ the original strategy board game. Your adventurous settlers seek to tame the remote but rich isle of Catan.
Start by revealing Catan's many harbors and regions: pastures, fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert. The random mix creates a different board virtually every game. No two games are the same! Embark on a quest to settle the isle of Catan! Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development. Use resource combinations- grain, wool, ore, brick, and lumber-to buy handy development cards and build roads, settlements, and cities.
Acquire your resources through trades, cards, or lucky dice (even outside your turn). Someone might cut off your road or buy a monopoly. And you never know when the wily robber might steal some of your precious gains! For 3-4 players Catan contains:.
19 unique hexagonal terrain tiles. 6 coastal frame pieces. 9 extra harbor pieces. 20 wooden settlements.
16 wooden cities. 60 wooden roads. 95 resource cards. 25 development cards.
4 building costs cards. 2 special bonus cards. 18 number tokens.
2 six-sided dice. 1 wooden robber pawn. simple rules & almanac.
The Settlers of Catan™ the original strategy board game. Your adventurous settlers seek to tame the remote but rich isle of Catan. Start by revealing Catan's many harbors and regions: pastures, fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert. The random mix creates a different board virtually every game.
No two games are the same! Embark on a quest to settle the isle of Catan! Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development. Use resource combinations- grain, wool, ore, brick, and lumber-to buy handy development cards and build roads, settlements, and cities. Acquire your resources through trades, cards, or lucky dice (even outside your turn). Someone might cut off your road or buy a monopoly.
And you never know when the wily robber might steal some of your precious gains! For 3-4 players Catan contains:.
19 unique hexagonal terrain tiles. 6 coastal frame pieces. 9 extra harbor pieces. 20 wooden settlements. 16 wooden cities. 60 wooden roads. 95 resource cards.
25 development cards. 4 building costs cards. 2 special bonus cards.
18 number tokens. 2 six-sided dice. 1 wooden robber pawn. simple rules & almanac. Now five to six players can explore and settle Catan!
In the Catan: 5-6 Player Extension you control a group of settlers exploring and taming the uncharted lands of Catan. Embark on a quest to settle the rich island, competing against more opponents for added fun.
Add 1-2 more friends or family without sacrificing ease of play. Add green and brown settlers and expand your island with 2 more harbors and 11 unique, new terrain tiles. This is NOT a complete game! It is only a game extension for 5-6 players.
You need a Catan game (aka The Settlers of Catan) in order to play with this extension! In Catan: Seafarers you control a group of bold seafaring settlers exploring and taming the wild, uncharted Isles of Catan.
Each game brings you to new seas and new lands. You might even discover the precious gold fields (a very valuable new terrain). Every game is unique and full of fun! Embark on an epic quest to settle the home island, build ships, and chart nearby waters. Guide your brave seafarers to victory through cunning trades and wise development. Be first to create new sea lanes and settle the newly-discovered isles. The best strategy and a nice dash of luck decide who will be the undisputed ruler of the rich Isles of Catan!
A game expansion for 3-4 players. Capture the adventure of seafaring, exploration, and trade. Catan: Seafarers is a 3-4 player expansion for the best-selling Catan board game. Share some fun at sea!
This is not a complete game! Requires the base Settlers of Catan game to play. Dark clouds gather over the once peaceful landscape. Wild barbarians, lured by Catan's wealth and power, maneuver to attack.
Their massive warships loom against the bright orange horizon. You must be strong! Barbarians attack the weakest targets, and the victim of their onslaught will be the player who contributes the least to the defense of Catan. Don't take any chances! Field your knights!
In Catan: Cities & Knights you engage in the defense of Catan and compete to build the three great metropolises of Catan. Each of these magnificent urban centers is even more valuable than a city. They're also immune to the dangerous barbarians.
Invest in city improvements, which you acquire using three commodities of trade: coin, paper, and cloth. If you improve your culture, muster your knights, and enrich your fine cities, you will be the master of the great realm of Catan!
Now five to six players can explore and settle Catan! In the Catan: 5-6 Player Extension you control a group of settlers exploring and taming the uncharted lands of Catan. Embark on a quest to settle the rich island, competing against more opponents for added fun.
Add 1-2 more friends or family without sacrificing ease of play. Add green and brown settlers and expand your island with 2 more harbors and 11 unique, new terrain tiles.
This is NOT a complete game! It is only a game extension for 5-6 players.
You need a Catan game (aka The Settlers of Catan) in order to play with this extension!
'Catan', the legendary strategy game provides gaming fun anytime, anywhere. True to the original game, you can compete with up to four players for the most settlements, the longest roads and the largest army. You can trade with each other and claim the precious land with all its resources. The game allows you to challenge other Catan fans online via cross-platform multiplayer to prove your strategy skills or play against the AI: Various computer opponents, each with their own individual characteristics, will prove themselves worthy competitors: the pirate Jean, who knows no compromise, Vincent the merchant, who never allows himself to be cheated, Sean the knight, who takes what is rightfully his. The popular Catan expansions 'Seafarers', 'Cities and Knights' and two new special scenarios are available as In-App purchases. The complete Seafarers expansion includes more than 10 additional scenarios with an extensive campaign. Become Harbormaster, discover new islands and extra game elements like ships, gold fields, treasures and pirates.
The Cities and Knights expansion introduces various new gameplay mechanics that add even more variety to Catan. Invest new trade goods in city improvements to build one of the three metropolises of Catan – but beware of the barbarians attracted by Catan’s new wealth! You’ll need your best knights to fend them off! C&K contains a short campaign and 7 challenging maps. Exciting adventures await you in the two new scenarios 'Enchanted Land' and 'The Great Canal'. Vanquish dragons and bag their treasures or build a canal to help barren grain fields bloom once more.
A thank-you for all our Catan fans: We’ve added an option to unlock content already purchased by you (applies to base game, “Seafarers” and “Cities and Knights” expansions) in our new game Catan Universe for free. Use your Catan Universe account to play on the device of your choice – you can use your login on many different desktop and mobile devices. Become part of the world-wide Catan community and play with players from all over the world. Please refer to the in-game news section for more details. Have fun playing Catan Universe!. 4.6.2 Jan 18, 2017. Catan 4.2 adds online multiplayer mode to the Cities and Knights expansion and offers a new scenario pack (IAP) for single player games as well: Defeat Dragons in the “Enchanted Land” and help to build the “Great Canal” in these scenarios with special rules and challenges.
Furthermore we’ve added a special deal including all Catan expansions to the Catan store. Added multiplayer support for Cities and Knights expansion - New IAPs: Scenario pack including the “Enchanted Land” and “Great Canal” and All-In-One deal to the Catan store. Added “News” screen on startup and to help menu - Updated and optimized network code for online games - Improved stability - Various smaller tweaks and optimizations. 4.1.1 Aug 29, 2014. Updated IAP menu and optimized restore function -Fixed an issue when reaching the required VPs in another player’s turn -Fixed end game display when winning by playing a knight -Cities will no longer provide trade goods in the turn they were destroyed -Game will now switch from the retro to other tile-sets in C&K scenarios -Fixed a knight-bug that could cause wrong calculation of the longest road and resource distribution -Updated keyboard support -Various smaller tweaks and optimizations. 4.0.5 Jun 4, 2014. 2.1.7 - Fixed sound-loop bug and corresponding stability issues - Fixed AI errors in advanced game situations - Game Center synchronization (achievements) optimized (iOS 5.0+) Important: Please read our FAQ: Once you’ve bought an expansion, you don’t have to pay for it again if you need to reinstall.
If you experience any problems, please try to restart your device once. A restart can fix many memory-related issues in iOS that aren’t specific to Catan. Our support team ([email protected]) will gladly help you – regrettably we can’t contact you via iTunes.
Please describe any issues as detailed as possible. This will help our support team to resolve issues faster. 2.1.6 Mar 26, 2012. 2.1.6 - Issues with older, ARM6-based devices (iPod 1/2, iPhone, iPhone 3G) resolved - Additional stability improvements - Updated in-game statistics 2.1.5 - Updated AI opponents: The AI will play more leniently at the start of the game, and more offensively toward the end of the game - New almanac display - Improved Game Center functionality (iOS5) and overall stability - Various smaller tweaks and optimizations Important: Please read our FAQ: Once you’ve bought an expansion, you don’t have to pay for it again if you need to reinstall. If you experience any problems, please try to restart your device once. A restart can fix many memory-related issues in iOS that aren’t specific to Catan. Our support team ([email protected]) will gladly help you – regrettably we can’t contact you via iTunes.
2.1.5 Mar 5, 2012. A thank-you for all our Catan fans: We’ve added an option to unlock content already purchased by you (applies to base game, “Seafarers” and “Cities and Knights” expansions) in our new game Catan Universe for free. Use your Catan Universe account to play on the device of your choice – you can use your login on many different desktop and mobile devices.
Become part of the world-wide Catan community and play with players from all over the world. Please refer to the in-game news section for more details.
Have fun playing Catan Universe! Asarendt I love how seamless this app is when transitioning from the board game to the app. It's so much easier than you think it would be and it is a really good use of spare time. Quite frankly, for the catan enthusiast, it's great, especially when you fork out the 12 bucks for the whole package. After playing countless games against the AI Bots in this game, my only beef is that the game clearly tries to equalize itself too much. I can't tell you how many times I've been ahead by 5 victory points only to have the game roll a ridiculous amount of 7s and other nonsensical numbers just to try to equalize things.
Just got done playing a game where I was a staggering 6 victory points ahead with one to go for the win, only to have the app roll an ungodly amount of 7s, 3s, 11s, and 2s until the computer finally caught up to 'give me a run for my money'. It's honestly frustrating and blatantly obvious the game tries to equalize. Game should've been over in two turns, stretched the game out to 12 more turns. I love how seamless this app is when transitioning from the board game to the app. It's so much easier than you think it would be and it is a really good use of spare time. Quite frankly, for the catan enthusiast, it's great, especially when you fork out the 12 bucks for the whole package. After playing countless games against the AI Bots in this game, my only beef is that the game clearly tries to equalize itself too much.
I can't tell you how many times I've been ahead by 5 victory points only to have the game roll a ridiculous amount of 7s and other nonsensical numbers just to try to equalize things. Just got done playing a game where I was a staggering 6 victory points ahead with one to go for the win, only to have the app roll an ungodly amount of 7s, 3s, 11s, and 2s until the computer finally caught up to 'give me a run for my money'. It's honestly frustrating and blatantly obvious the game tries to equalize. Game should've been over in two turns, stretched the game out to 12 more turns. Morty the mortified Because you will be tempted to beat your phone with a hammer if you play this version. Yes, I've played countless games of catan with real humans and understand the drama that is catan.
However, you will find that your ai opponents have a nearly unlimited supply of knight and monopoly cards and that possessing ownership of as many as 10 of the 12 numbers available in the range of possibilities may result in the other two numbers being rolled so exclusively that you go 4 rounds without receiving a single resource. You think you know how frustrating the robber can be? In short, the programmers must have been slighted by their wages or resented the project somehow. They are quietly chuckling everyday in the knowledge that they are torturing the minds of catan faithful worldwide. To be fair, it is a beautiful interface. Very user friendly and completely addictive.
Nonetheless, I happily flushed the money I spent on this game down the toilet and deleted it from my phone. Life is good again. Because you will be tempted to beat your phone with a hammer if you play this version. Yes, I've played countless games of catan with real humans and understand the drama that is catan. However, you will find that your ai opponents have a nearly unlimited supply of knight and monopoly cards and that possessing ownership of as many as 10 of the 12 numbers available in the range of possibilities may result in the other two numbers being rolled so exclusively that you go 4 rounds without receiving a single resource. You think you know how frustrating the robber can be?
In short, the programmers must have been slighted by their wages or resented the project somehow. They are quietly chuckling everyday in the knowledge that they are torturing the minds of catan faithful worldwide. To be fair, it is a beautiful interface. Very user friendly and completely addictive. Nonetheless, I happily flushed the money I spent on this game down the toilet and deleted it from my phone.
Life is good again. FrancisCV711 I was just introduced to the board game this past week whilst on vacation, and as soon as we played our first game - I was hooked! Decided to give the mobile game a go because I know this will be the only chance I get to get my fix of Settlers in. Read the reviews which said that the AI becomes basically impossible to beat which meant I definitely had to try it. But first, I tried the online experience - definitely something left to be desired there.
Wait time to find a lobby was long, and once I was able to join a game the group suffered connection issues and players exiting and entering the game. So yeah, first online Settlers attempt.not so great. But why wait around for some noobs to POSSIBLY play their turn, when you can get instant gratification from playing AI!? So, I scroll through the custom game set-up mode, and before you know it, I'm laying down the foundation of becoming The Lord of Catan! Lemme tell you, the game held true to the reviews I read. The computer seems to pull off these ridiculous come from behind wins; rolling an absurd amount of 7s, and rallying together to play back to back to back knight cards against you!
I was determined though. Every loss was motivation to try a different approach, and what do you know.6 hours later, I finally friggin beat the AI. I can finally go to bed! I was just introduced to the board game this past week whilst on vacation, and as soon as we played our first game - I was hooked!
Decided to give the mobile game a go because I know this will be the only chance I get to get my fix of Settlers in. Read the reviews which said that the AI becomes basically impossible to beat which meant I definitely had to try it. But first, I tried the online experience - definitely something left to be desired there. Wait time to find a lobby was long, and once I was able to join a game the group suffered connection issues and players exiting and entering the game. So yeah, first online Settlers attempt.not so great. But why wait around for some noobs to POSSIBLY play their turn, when you can get instant gratification from playing AI!?
So, I scroll through the custom game set-up mode, and before you know it, I'm laying down the foundation of becoming The Lord of Catan! Lemme tell you, the game held true to the reviews I read. The computer seems to pull off these ridiculous come from behind wins; rolling an absurd amount of 7s, and rallying together to play back to back to back knight cards against you! I was determined though. Every loss was motivation to try a different approach, and what do you know.6 hours later, I finally friggin beat the AI. I can finally go to bed!
Whenever I move, I think it’s the biggest hassle in the world. Packing everything up, changing addresses, and meeting the new neighbors. It all makes me cringe. But when I step back and think about it, we have it easy compared to what others have endured to change locations. Imagine what it was like for any group of people that decided to go and settle in a new world. This idea is what the Settlers of Catan emulates. Players take the role of settlers to a new land and try to become the most successful civilization on the island.
Is an award winning, 3-4 person dice rolling and hand management game designed by Klaus Teuber. Plays in about 90 minutes and is best with 4 people. Game Overview: The Settlers of Catan is a game about area control, resource management and negotiation. Each player starts the game with two roads and settlements on the board.
Each player turn, different resources, either brick, wool, ore, grain, or lumber, will be produced to help the settlers build new roads, settlements and even cities on the board. As the players build more roads out across the island, new settlements will be erected and new resources gained. This will lead the player to gaining victory points. The play continues until one player has established enough of a foothold on the island to gain 10 victory points and win the game.
Components: One thing that doesn’t get mentioned a lot with components is the rule book. Settlers of Catan has one of the best rulebooks that I have seen. It has full pictures of the board set up, very detailed descriptions on turn order, and an almanac for more advanced rules and clarifications.
It makes the game very easy to learn for people who haven’t played, as well as questions raised by more frequent players. As for the game board, I have a love/hate relationship with it. I love the fact that it has hexagon shaped pieces for the land and sea and allows you to have a different setup for to the board every time you play.
This allows you to have endless variety in game play. But the lack of a solid outside border in the early editions of this game (they have fixed this in new editions), makes it very easy to bump the board and mess up everything on the table. It isn’t the biggest deal, but still is annoying.
The component quality overall is very high on this game. Allowing for many plays without any signs of wear and tear. How to Play: Each hex will produce a resource when its number is rolled. Players will want the higher probability numbers to increase their chances. The game starts with placing the game tiles on the table with the number tokens on each of the land squares. These tokens are each numbered from 2-12, skipping the 7.
This number will determine the total needed to be rolled to produce that resource for that turn. Each player will place two settlements with a road on any of the intersections on the board. The player will also receive the resources adjacent to the second settlement they placed and then the game begins. Each round goes as follows: 1. Resource Production Each player rolls both dice and the total determines which of the resource hexes will produce resources that turn. Each player who has a settlement or city adjacent to the hex rolled gains a resource card and places it into their hand.
If a player rolls a total of 7, the robber comes into play. First, if any player have over 7 cards in their hands, they lose half of them. This game mechanic forces players to use their resources very quickly rather than hoard them. The next thing that happens is that the robber figure is moved.
This allows the player to block any other terrain hex from producing any resources when its number is rolled. The current player also gets to steal a card from anyone who has a settlement or city next to that hex. Trade After the resource cards are collected the player may trade their resource cards with any of the other players. This is a major part of the game due to the limited amount of hexes of each resource type.
Inevitably, you will be waiting and waiting for a number to be rolled, and trade can help you construct the building that you need much faster if you can find a willing trade partner. This allows for great player interactions during the game as you haggle how much that wool is worth to each player. The other type of trade is either a 4:1 trade with the “bank”, where you trade in 4 of one type of resource for another, or a harbor trade.
Harbor trades are when you have a settlement or city on a harbor indicated by the outside sea hexes. These allow you to either trade 3:1 or trade two of a specific resource for any other resource. Build This stage is when players can use the resources that they have gained through production and trade. They can construct buildings, roads, or buy development cards.
Buildings are the settlements and cities I have mentioned earlier. Cities are updated settlements and gain you two victory points as well as double the production of the settlement it replaced. Roads allow players to build out from their first two settlements and find other areas of the island to build on. These roads are placed on the edges of the terrain hexes and must be connected to either a settlement or existing player road. The last thing a player can do with resources is buy a development card.
These cards are drawn for the top of a deck and there are 3 types of cards, soldiers, progress and victory point. Soldiers allow a player to move the robber without waiting for a 7 to be rolled. Progress cards allow the player to do special actions, such as build extra roads and collect resources. The last kind is victory point cards, of which there are only 5 in the game.
Once a player is done rolling the dice past to the next player and they take their turn. The first player to 10 victory points wins the game. Easy to learn rules and high player interaction are some of the high points of the award winning The Settlers of Catan. Game Experience: The first time I ever played Catan was one late night in college.
I would bet that most people wouldn’t be able to remember the first time they played a game from a year ago, let alone 8 years. This isn’t the case for me. I still remember that game and it’s one of the reasons that I currently play the boardgames I do now. Catan was a different gaming experience for me and will be a game that I will hold onto forever. Despite being slightly overwhelmed at the start of the game, I quickly figured out a strategy that I wanted to implement. It failed miserably, but that didn’t matter.
I was having such a fun time that winning didn’t matter, it was the experience. Now that I have taken everyone down the nostalgia track, lets get into why the game works so well. The robber will be the bane of any Catan player. 7 is the most highly probable number and the one the players want the least. I think Catan is one of the few games where I enjoy every aspect of the game mechanics. There is a great combination of both luck and strategy in this game.
You can work to get yourself to a location with very high probability resource number, but it might not be rolled for another 10 turns of the game. This wonderful balance of these two elements can be frustrating at times, but is necessary for making the game accessible for new players as well as a challenge for veterans. Because the game has a natural modular element, being able to shuffle the resource locations on the map, the replay value is amazingly high.
I have played over 50 games of Catan since my first game and we have never had the exact same setup. But what I think I like most about the game is the trading aspect. This isn’t a super complex part of the game or is something unique to The Settlers of Catan, but I think it’s implemented perfectly. Sometimes there will be entire games where the dice are rolling in someone’s favor and the player won’t need to trade. However, most of the time you will have to trade to get the resources you want. It is this informal interaction of people outbidding each other, trying to swing deals for later in the game, and hand bluffing where the true fun of the game exist for me.
I have many fond memories of people trying to convince another player to trade a resources with them. I have even seen players begging and even groveling at someones feet to make a deal happen. It is this player interaction that makes the game a joy to play.
And that’s one of the great things about The Settlers of Catan. The game features some fantastic player interaction. This also makes the game easy for new players to learn while keeping an experienced player engaged. Trading and bartering is second nature to almost everyone.
Catan’s rules make is incredibly easy for a new player to learn and the modular board make sure an experienced player will have to form a new strategy each game. It’s rare when a board game can captivate both new comers and experienced players alike. I know Catan is one of the first games I will pull out for people who are new to the eurogame genre. Its easy to learn rules, minimal down time and high player interaction make it a perfect game for new players. Add in the fact that that Catan has no player elimination mechanic and you have a game that can keep everyone engaged until the very end. Final Thoughts: Players must balance 5 different types of resources to win in Catan. It isn’t a secret what I think of this game, I LOVE IT.
The simple elements of resource management, trading, and building is blended into a near perfect game for me. I still haven’t forgiven them for the lack of an outside border to the hexes in the original edition, but it won’t stop me from playing the game. It’s a minor gripe at best. The modular board gives the game almost unlimited replay value without feeling stale. Catan has a straightforward and engaging player interaction with a perfect balance of luck and strategy.
May 22, 2011 Can anyone direct me to the most recent drivers to connect the PS3 controller to Vista 32bit OS? Thank you, I keep on finding old stuff and want the newest drivers. Driver for ps3 controller on windows vista. This how-to video is about how to make PS3 controller work on the computer that have either Windows XP, or Vista or 7 as their operating system. Installation of PS3. Their English is a little choppy, so figuring out the exact method of installing the drivers may be confusing for some. Here’s an illustrated guide on how to install Windows drivers for your Playstation 3 controller: Download the drivers. You can download the latest version, 6.0003 from our servers here: 64-bit version, 32-bit version.
This allows both new players and experienced ones to play a competitive game with one side always having a chance of beating the other. Catan sometimes gets pigeonholed as just a game for people that are getting into the board gaming world , but it’s a game that should be in every gamer’s library.
While does, in fact, make an excellent, it will continue to be played for many years after your first play. It’s no wonder has won many awards over its first decade of play, including the coveted Spiel des Jahres. Pick up your copy today, its sure to have a lot of time at your gaming table.
If you are interested in getting a copy for yourself, it’s about Final Score: 5 Stars – A game with great game play balance and changing board setup make this game a joy to play with both experienced and new players. Hits:. Great balance of luck and strategy. Very easy to learn rules with a well designed rule book. Simple trading elements allows for excellent player interaction. Modular board allows for endless variety of game boards Misses:.
Lack of outside border causes game board to shift a little to easily.
For other uses, see. A giant game of Settlers being played at Indy 2003. This is one of many Settlers of Catan custom, extra-large boards seen during demonstrations and tournaments at Gen Con. The players in the game represent settlers establishing colonies on the island of Catan. Players build, cities, and roads to connect them as they settle the island. The game board, which represents the island, is composed of hexagonal tiles of different land types, which are laid out randomly at the beginning of each game.
Newer editions of the game began to depict a fixed layout in their manual, which has been proven to be fairly even-handed by computer simulationsand recommend this to be used by beginners. In 2016, editions of the game were released with a conventional fixed layout board in this configuration, the hexes of which cannot be rearranged. Players build by spending (brick, lumber, wool, grain, and ore), represented by resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource.
On each player's, two six-sided are rolled to determine which hexes produce resources. Players with a settlement adjacent to a hex containing the number just rolled receive one card of the corresponding resource; cities produce two cards of the corresponding resource. For example, if a player has one city and two settlements adjacent to a wheat hex, that player would take four wheat resource cards if the corresponding number was rolled. There is also a robber token, initially placed on the desert; if a player rolls 7, the robber must be moved to another hex, which will no longer produce resources until the robber is moved again. That player may also steal a resource card from another player. In addition, when a 7 is rolled, all players with more than 7 resource cards must discard their choice of half of their cards, rounded down. On the player's turn, the player may spend resource cards to build roads, settlements, cities (which replace existing settlements), or development cards.
Players can trade resource cards between each other; players may also trade off-island (in effect, with the non-player bank) at a ratio of four of one resource for one of any other. By building settlements adjacent to ports, players may trade with the bank at three-to-one (three of any single resource type) or two-to-one (two of a specific resource) ratios, depending on the port's location. The goal of the game is to reach ten. Players score one point for each settlement they own and two for each city.
Various other achievements, such as establishing the longest road and the largest army (by playing the most knight cards), grant a player additional victory points. Resource cards can also be spent to buy a development card.
Three types of development cards include cards worth one victory point; cards (or soldier cards), which allow the player to move the robber as if they had rolled a 7 (but without the remove-half rule); and a third set of cards which allow the player one of three abilities when played. Teuber's original design was for a large game of exploration and development in a new land. Between 1993 and 1995 Teuber and Kosmos refined and simplified the game into its current form. Unused mechanics from that design went on to be used in Teuber's following games, and.
The game's first expansion, adds the concept of exploration, and the combined game (sometimes known as 'New Shores') is probably the closest game to Teuber's original intentions. Extensions and expansions. Further information: The base game of the Catan series, Settlers of Catan, includes support for 3-4 players. In 1996, an extension to allow up to six players was released for the base game. As well as extra components to accommodate more players, the expansion adds an extra building phase to the turn, so that players can participate in the game during each other's turns. After releasing the 5-6 player extension, Teuber began to publish expansions for the base game. The first, was released in 1997; it was later retitled Catan: Seafarers.
Seafarers adds ships which allow players to cross sea hexes, and includes scenarios in which players explore an of islands. It also adds gold-producing hexes which allow players to take the resource of their choice. The second major expansion to the game, (later Catan: Cities and Knights), was also released in 1998. It adds concepts from the card game and its first expansion to Catan, including Knights who must be used to defend Catan from invading barbarians, and improvements which can be bought for cities which give benefits to players. In addition, three commodities (paper, coin and cloth) can be produced as well as the original resources.
A 5–6 player extension for Cities & Knights was released at the same time. Also released in 2000 was a book of variations for Settlers. The third large expansion, was released in 2008. Traders & Barbarians collects a number of smaller scenarios, some of which have previously been published elsewhere.
The set includes an official two-player variant. A special edition of the game was released in 2005: a 10th anniversary collector's edition of the base game and Cities & Knights, with hand-painted 3D tiles and playing pieces. Mayfair Games released a fourth edition of The Settlers of Catan in 2007, with new artwork, a locking frame, a deeper box, and an insert tray; there was also a minor rule change. Soon after its release, two changes were made to the fourth edition. The robber playing piece was changed from a black to a grey color and the soldier development card was renamed a knight. Fourth-edition versions of Cities & Knights, Seafarers, and the 5–6 player extensions were also released., the fourth large expansion, was released in 2013.
The Catan line was rebranded in 2015 for the 20th anniversary of the series, with the original Settlers game renamed simply Catan. Variants and scenarios In 1998, the first historical scenario pack was released, which allows players to reenact the building of the or the expansion of 's empire using Catan game mechanics. A second scenario pack for Settlers concerning the building of the and the was released in 2001. Atlantis: Scenarios and Variants was published in 2005. Atlantis was a boxed set which collected a number of scenarios and variants published in gaming magazines and at conventions, such as The Volcano and The Great River.
The set also included a deck of event cards which replaced the dice in the main game, giving it a less random spread of resource production. The event cards, which were also available as a standalone item, have since been re-released in a modified form in the Traders and Barbarians expansion. Kosmos, Mayfair, and 999 Games released the first stand-alone 'Catan Geographies' title, Catan Germany, in 2009. Catan: Oil Springs is an expansion by Erik Assadourian and Ty Hansen introduced in 2011 designed to draw attention to environmental issues. It is offered as a free download or for purchase from the Mayfair Games website. The scenario adds oil fields that can be used to make other resources and develop metropolises, but disasters can strike if too much oil is used. Oil can also be taken out of the game, for victory points and to prevent disasters.
Reception comments that 'for all of its elemental simplicity, The Settlers of Catan has breathtaking depth and breadth of experience. It's a resource-management game, defined by position and strategizing. It's a social game, defined by of resource cards and 'Siccing the Fritz' (as my friends call the robber) with bloodthirsty bonhomie.
It's a game of chance, ruled by dice rolls and card draws. It's a hardcore game and a light social pastime and everything in between, a laboratory where I can test a hundred different play styles and a genuine reason to invite friends over.' It is popular in the United States where it has been called 'the board game of our time'. A 2012 American documentary film titled (featuring Klaus Teuber) is about this game's impact on American gaming communities and what came of it.
Awards. 1995: Game of the Year. 1995: 1st place. 1995:. 1995: Meeples' Choice Award. 1996: for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Board Game.
2004: Hra roku. 2005:. 2005: Gra Roku Game of the Year. 2015: GamesCon Vegas Game of the Century Video games Since the game's release, a number of computer games have been published based on Settlers of Catan and its spinoffs.
The first sanctioned English-language release was Catan: The Computer Game, developed for the PC by Castle Hill Studios and published. This off-line game was available from MSN, as it was acquired by who also released Catan Online in August 2005 on, the game now requiring an internet connection. In 2005, edited the first portable version of Settlers of Catan on the handheld device. In June 2009 the MSN version of Settlers was discontinued. The same game later became available on other online services. Teuber and worked together to produce Catan, a version of Settlers for the.
It was released on 2 May 2007. Developed a version in 2008 titled also. A version of Settlers has been developed by Exozet games in collaboration with Klaus Teuber. The game can be played against computer opponents, and includes online play.
It was released in 2009, but only in Europe. The Settlers of Catan online game was announced on 16 December 2002. Catan Online World allows players to download a application that serves as a portal for the online world and allows online play with other members.
The original board game may be played for free, while expansions require a subscription membership. There have also been several unauthorized video game implementations of Settlers. One of these, 'Java Settlers', was developed by Robert S. Thomas as part of his PhD research.
His dissertation is available from the abandoned project home page. The for Thomas' Settlers of Catan implementation along with the AI code was released under the. Two official PC versions of Catan have been released, The First Island (the basic game only) and (with Seafarers and Cities & Knights expansions).
The First Island is available for the PC only in German. Cities & Knights was available in both English and German. Catan and some of its expansions are also available in various languages for mobile phones, and smartphones. Mayfair Games announced in 2010 that a version of Catan is coming to Facebook. Was released on in 2007. It was pulled without notice in mid-2014. There is no official word on why it was pulled or if it will return.
Another game called was released for the in 2008. It also has been discontinued.
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In 2010, showcased a game for Settlers of Catan. USM also developed an Android and iOS mobile app version simply called 'Catan' with the various expansions available as DLC. In August 2013, Catan: Creators Edition was made available for PC on Steam and Mac OS X in the Mac App Store.
Catan: Creators Edition officially replaces the previous Catan: Cities & Knights. The game features both Seafarers plus the Cities & Knights expansions and includes a level editor.
In the summer of 2014, Bontom Games collaborated with Catan GmbH and Internet Explorer to bring an asynchronous version of Catan to the digital world. Catan Anytime is a short-session turn-based game designed for mainstream gamers to play with their friends and family, no matter the time and place. On 10 June 2016, Catan Anytime announced on their Facebook page that Catan Anytime has shut down operations. The web site catananytime.com is no longer available. Spinoffs and tie-in products The popularity of The Settlers of Catan led to the creation of spinoff games and products, starting in 1996 with (later renamed to Catan Card Game), and the 2003 novel, by German historical fiction author, which tells the story of a group of Norse seafarers who set out in search of the mythical island of Catan. In 2002 a travel edition of Catan was published, featuring playing pieces which slot into a fixed-layout board.
The 'Catan Histories' subseries includes Settlers of the Stone Age, a re-release of Struggle for Rome, and Settlers of America. Star Trek Catan is a spin-off of the original series released in 2012 by Mayfair Games. The game uses the same basic components with new names, new graphics, and some minor rules additions. The building costs and resources match the original game. Catanimals Mayfair released a series of mini-stuffed animals based on the different resources presented in the game. Film/television adaptation In February 2015, announced that producer had purchased the film and TV rights to The Settlers of Catan. Katz said, 'The island of Catan is a vivid, visual, exciting and timeless world with classic themes and moral challenges that resonate today.
There is a tremendous opportunity to take what people love about the game and its mythology as a starting point for the narrative'. In October 2017, Variety reported that was negotiating to acquire the rights to adapt it into a film, with Gail Katz still attached to the project.
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