A number of independent scenarios designed specifically for this expansion is also available. It can be extended further using the Catan: Seafarers 5-6 Player Extension. Teuber originally planned to have this in the base game but found it too problematic to implement.
The first Catan Expansion, Seafarers was released in 1997 and adds ships and exploration into the game. The most popular of these are: Catan: Seafarers To date, there have been many Settlers of Catan expansions that aims to enhance player experience and game variety. Players can also spend resource cards to buy development cards which gives special abilities. Other achievements like establishing the longest road and the largest army (by playing the most knight cards), grants a player additional victory points. One victory point is given for each settlement and two for each city a player owns own. Each player would then attempt to build and develop territories and acquire resources.Īs their settlement grows, each player gains victory points and the first to get 10 VPs, wins. In Catan, players take on the role of the chief of a settlement. The game sees players immersing themselves in deep strategic thoughts, despite the game’s mechanics being very simple to learn. More than 27 million copies translated into 30 different languages had been sold as of 2019. The Settlers of Catan, or just Catan, is a board game designed by Klaus Teuber and published by Catan Studio, a German company.Ĭatan was seen as one of the first Eurogame made in Germany to become famous outside of Europe.