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Catan

Trade sheep, block rivals, and race to build the best island empire.

Also known as 🇩🇪 Die Siedler von Catan , 🇮🇹 I Coloni di Catan , 🇫🇷 Les Colons de Catane , 🇪🇸 Los Colonos de Catán , 🇯🇵 カタンの開拓者たち

1995
Community verdict Mixed 0% positive 1 verdict
Economic Negotiation Negotiation Heavy Social Strategic Tactical

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You may like this if you enjoy…

  • Reading the room and talking your way through
  • Long-arc planning where early choices pay off late
  • Short-horizon optimization and clever combos
  • Deal-making and bargaining

You may not like this if…

  • You prefer games under an hour

Catan is a 1995 board game for 3 to 4 players, ages 10 and up. A typical game runs 60 to 120 minutes and plays at medium complexity. It was designed by Klaus Teuber and published by Kosmos.

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Catan is a competitive resource-trading board game in which players settle an island by building roads, settlements, and cities while racing to 10 victory points. Resource production depends on dice rolls and board position, so players must balance expansion, negotiation, and timing. Its modular hex board and player trading helped make it one of the defining gateway strategy games.

Designed by

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Klaus Teuber

Artwork by

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Franz Vohwinkel, Harald Lieske, Michaela Kienle, Pete Fenlon, Tanja Donner, Volkan Baga

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