Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 45-90 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

Are you tired of the luck of the dice sometimes? Do you lose because you once again did not bet on a certain number, which was rolled all the time in this game of all games?

Then forget about the dice and instead play with the event cards.

The dice numbers are shown on 36 cards according to their statistical frequency. So you are sure to get the return you deserve! In addition, there is an event shown on each card that adds extra flavor to the game!

A revised edition of the CATAN Event Cards is included in the Traders & Barbarians expansion.

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 45-90 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

• Deutscher Spielepreis 2006 (6th place)

Gather 2-4 players and build Elasund, the first city on the island of Catan. This may sound like a peaceful endeavor - but it isn't. In a city that seems to have far too little space, soon a fierce struggle ensues: everyone wants to snatch the best building sites, build the buildings that generate the most income, and secure as many victory points as possible.

Elasund is growing rapidly and Catanians are streaming into the city, eager to make a fortune! You are appointed to help the city develop. You heed the call to drive the city's growth and prosperity.

Hire workers, acquire building materials. What will your next build be? The competition is eager to excel and claim all of the credit! Limited resources early on will limit you to a few small buildings. Your influential connections will provide you with all the necessary building permits. In Elasund, nothing works without building permits!

Once buildings are constructed, they can generate either gold or influence for you. Soon you can start going after bigger projects! Soon enough you may become involved in grander projects, such as building the church or the city walls.

But beware of your competitors! They may try to leverage their way into your neighborhood with their own permits!

If you don’t watch them closely enough, they might attempt a hostile takeover of your buildings!

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 45-90 min.

Verlag: Mayfair Games

A unique, three-tile, die-cut piece that brings the excitement of the gold rush to your The Settlers of CATAN game and your Cities & Knights or Seafarers as well. This new variant includes: 1 three-hex river tile to fit your base game, 10 new number counters, and special rules.

The Great River challenges CATAN fans to race for the gold by building settlements and roads alongside the river tile. Those who build along its banks stand to profit from the gold craze sweeping the land, for they will receive gold for each settlement and road they build at the river. Once you have accumulated sufficient gold, you may exchange it for victory points!

The Great River can also be combined with the Seafarers and Cities & Knights expansions.

A revised edition of The Great River is included in the Traders & Barbarians expansion.

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 60-120 min.

Publisher: KOSMOS

Atlantis was a special edition that contained various variants and scenarios. While this box was not published in English, some scenarios were made available in Traders & Barbarians.

• Atlantis (scenario)
• Castles on Catan (variant)
• Events on Catan (variant)
• The Great River (variant)
• The Harbor Master (variant)
• In the Jungle (scenario)
• The Magic 7 (variant)
• The Specialists (variant)
• The City Walls (variant)
• Volcanoes on Catan (variant)

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 60-120 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

Inside a wooden chest, a treasure for settlers is hidden: 19 three-dimensional terrain hexes, an illustrated, sturdy wooden frame, and over 170 game pieces modeled in great detail. All terrain hexes and game pieces are hand-painted. And naturally, all the other game components are also included, so you can enjoy CATAN in 3D, with or without the Cities & Knights expansion

The 3D version of CATAN was produced in a limited edition and is sold out.

A newly created CATAN - 3D Edition will be released in 2021!

(Picture shows the German edition by KOSMOS. The Mayfair edition was identical in content.)

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 60-75 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

• Spiel des Jahres 1988 (Game of the Year 1988, Germany)

A modern classic, Barbarossa is a great game for family and friends! Enter the fantastic world of this casual riddle-solving game. Share laughs with your friends or family as you create and master riddles!

First, each player forms objects out of modeling clay. Since the item is a riddle, your clay figure will only show rough contours. So there's no need to be an artist when you mold the rough shape of a dinosaur or a bug!

• “Is it a living thing?”
• “Is it bigger than me?”

... these questions might bring you closer to solving the other players' riddles.

When you solve a riddle, you are rewarded with points. You can also earn points when your riddle gets solved, but only if it's not too easy and not too hard! You earn bonus points if your riddle is solved in the middle of the guessing process, but you lose points if it is answered early (too easy) or late (too hard)! Earning points is the key to victory, so put on your thinking cap and mold your best riddles.

Digital CATAN Adaptation for Nokia N-Gage.

Developer / Publisher: Capcom

Age: 12+ Players: 2-4 Playing time: 60-120 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

You never give up! Despite the long journey to your new homeland and the loss of everything you owned, you have made it: you are a settler of Catan!

You begin with nothing more than your own two hands, and each day will bring you a host of new experiences and adventures. Hunting bears and wolves? Building chests and furniture? Working hides and skins? Not a problem for you!

But soon you grow tired with simply roaming the island.

Your goal is to settle down with a roof over your head, sheep to breed, and a field to sow your grain. To do this, you will need the help of the other settlers in the village. Easily done! If you supply a sword to Jared, he will give you a bag of seeds in return. Osmund needs a new chest and offers you some sheep. Candamir would like new windows and can help you build your new house.

Again and again you head out for the wilderness, hunting bears and wolves, collecting honey and rare herbs. But you must be cautious!

With a browser-based card editor you were able to create your own Catan (no longer available).

Age: 10+ Players: 1-2 Playing time: 20-30 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

A mysterious sea containing uncharted islands is waiting to be discovered.

Experience the adventure of exploring unknown islands! Each game presents new and unique challenges, for the board is different every time you play.

In the 2-player variant, you and your opponent seek to claim the biggest islands in Oceania. The most successful explorer is the victor!

Or you can be your own opponent in the single-player variant. You will seek out larger, more valuable islands as the game challenges you to beat your own record score!

Age: 12+ Players: 2-5 Playing time: 30-75 min.

Publisher: Überplay

• Spiel des Jahres 1990 (Game of the Year, Germany) ´
• Deutscher Spielepreis 1990 (Award for Best Adult and Family Games - 1st place, Germany)

Eccentricity is what makes the world go round. Well, your world anyways. As a member of the pretentious “Antique Club”, you feel inexplicably compelled to outshine your other snobby friends. You are oddly convinced it is your destiny to become the antique collector with the most valuable collection - by using any means necessary. Outwit your fellow snobs to become the most “Hoity Toity” of them all.

Age: 10+ Players: 2-4 Playing time: 75-115 min.

Publisher: KOSMOS

Place the expansion board (1) adjacent to the game board of the base game and fill it with new island tiles. There are cards with the luxury goods silk, marble, and precious stones (2) as well as pirate nests (3).

You can only win the game if you take possession of islands with luxury goods (4). But that is not easy, as pirates (5) armed to the teeth are blocking the way.

Every time you move onto a pirate space, a pirate card (6) is revealed. If the pirate defeats you in battle, the ship has to go back to the nearest port for repairs.

So it's time to upgrade your ships with cannons so that they can let the pirates have it. You also upgrade your home islands: each of you places an aristocrat island (7) adjacent to their home island. Settling aristocrats on this island costs luxury goods. The more aristocrats you settle, the higher your advantages in the game.

The luxury goods can also be used to build a castle on the aristocrat island in 9 stages. For each completed construction stage, you receive an action card (8). For example, you can use the “privateer” to steal a luxury good from another player or build cannons faster with the “inventor”.

If only one of three possible victory points (3 trade agreements, 3 merchants, or 4 public buildings) is accepted on the old game board, two out of three possible victory points must be earned on the new game board. The conquest of two pirate nests, the completion of the castle, or the construction of 3 aristocrat buildings (9) count as one victory point.

Overall, the Anno 1503 expansion offers new strategies, more depth, and an enhanced gaming experience. 

Digital CATAN Adaptation for Windows PC.

Developer: Castle Hill Studios

Publisher: Microsoft Network Games (MSN Games)

Age: 4+ Players: 2-4 Playing time: 15-20 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

Each player has a set of buildings to place. Each of you must build a set of buildings. To build a building, you need a whole cartload of resources: 1 wood, 1 brick, and 1 grain.

The roll of the die determines how far the carts will move. When you stop next to a resource you need, you can load the resource into your cart.

When your cart is full, you get to build a new building! You must place it in the right spot in the village. Then you return the resources to the board so they can be collected again!

Once you have built all of your buildings, you begin collecting resources again to build the City Hall. The player who builds the City Hall wins the game!

Of course, children are also encouraged to play with the wonderful wooden buildings to create their own games and adventures on Catan!

Age: 10+ Players: 2-4 Playing time: 60-90 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

Brave pioneers explore uncharted islands in tall ships, finding bountiful lands that yield valuable resources, while establishing homes and becoming the first settlers of this new world.

Soon their isolated cabins grow together, forming villages, and before long they begin to establish trade with the inhabitants of neighboring islands. The archipelago begins to grow and the inhabitants are attaining prosperity and wealth as they become skilled in trades and commerce. This idle life is treacherous – wildfires threaten the rapidly growing colonies, and pirates hungry for gold and intent on pillage roam the seas...

Age: 12+ Players: 2-4 Playing time: 60-75 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

• Deutscher Spielepreis 2003 (2003 Award for Best Adult and Family Games - 5th place, Germany)

The king shall return...But before he does, the realm falls into anarchy and chaos. The lords of the kingdom struggle to improve their place and standing. New borders are drawn and expanded through strength of arms and subtle maneuver. Each duke seeks to establish a claim over the most valuable parts of the kingdom before the king finally returns...
In the dark of the Middle Ages, control of the land was the key to wealth and power. Can you control enough territory to become the most prestigious duke before the king's return?

With the love for detail that has distinguished all of his designs, Klaus Teuber has created a game that is easy to learn, yet offers enough strategic depth to draw players back again and again.

Are you clever enough to control the land, marshal your wealth, and seize the power and prestige of your own domaine?

Digital Adaptation for Windows PC.

Developer: bvm - bytes.vibes.minds.

Publisher: Dartmoor Softworks

The king shall return ... But before he does, the realm falls into anarchy and chaos.

The lords of the kingdom struggle to improve their place and standing. New borders are drawn and regions are enlarged at the expense of neighboring players, thus redistributing the estates.

• PC adaptation true to the original new edition published by Kosmos
• Animated 3D game board with free camera movement and perspective selection
• Single player mode against up to three computer opponents
• Domaine can be played in multiplayer mode via the CATAN Online World for free (no longer available)

Age: 12+ Players: 2 Playing time: 60-90 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

For those players who own the original CATAN - Card Game and/or the first edition of the expansion set.

Here you'll find 40 new cards telling of bloodthirsty barbarians who can raid your lands and of high-powered merchants to lead you to prosperity. This box also contains 50 revised cards from the first 5 expansions, as well as all the latest rules updates, so you can use your old cards with the current game. As with all CATAN - Card Game theme sets, you need a copy of the base game to use the Barbarians & Traders expansion or the other upgrade kit cards.

• 90 Cards & 20-pg Guide.

Important notice for those confused about this upgrade: Please note that this upgrade kit is not for those who own the 2006 version of the CATAN - Card Came & the 2006 version of the CATAN - Card Game - Expansion Set. The upgrade kit is best utilized by those owning older versions of both items. 8 of the 90 cards upgrade the old CATAN - Card Game. 42 of the 90 cards upgrade the old CATAN - Card Game - Expansion Set. 40 of the cards contain the Barbarians & Traders expansion.

This Card Game Upgrade Kit became part of the CATAN - Card Game - Expansion Set.

Digital Adaptation for Windows XP.

Developer: Rockazonga / dreipartner

Publisher: Take2

Sternenschiff CATAN is a strategy game involving trade and adventure. As astronauts of the Catanian space fleet, the players get caught in a space-time warp that sends them to an unknown galaxy. You only get home safely if you are clever at fitting out your starship, manage the scarce resources responsibly, trade with alien races, and perform other actions in order to collect sufficient victory points. 

• PC adaptation true to the original board game
• Comprehensive single player mode with campaign
• Varied 3D event animations
• Can be played on the Internet and on LAN

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Digital Browser Games

Developer / Publisher: CATAN GmbH

Klaus Teubers Spielwiese offered variants of the board games as digital adaptations for the web browser, later changed into PlayCatan, and in 2014 continued as Klaus Teuber's Web Games until it was discontinued in 2017.

With the launch of Klaus Teubers Spielwiese (translates: "playground"), the Barbarossa Online Puzzle was revised, and Entdecker Light (later Oceania) started at the same time.

Starship CATAN Light (2003), Multi-CATAN (2005), The Settlers of CATAN - The Dice Game (2007), and the CATAN Puzzle (2009) were added later.

Multi-CATAN

This was a round-based online game on an almost infinitely large playing field, where six players always see each other at the same time. Without having to wait for the other player to finish their turn, neighboring players compete for the best building sites. A game of Multi-CATAN extended over 72 dice rolls, which were spread over 7 game days.

This “parallel” game concept differed fundamentally from all CATAN variants and scenarios known at the time and formed the conceptual basis for the later CATAN - Big Game. 

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 60-90 min.

Publisher: Inspirational Games

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 60-90 min.

Publisher: Cactus Game Design Co.

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 45-90 min.

Publisher: Mayfair Games

CATAN in a very compact, portable edition! A solid, beautifully designed plastic game board, drop-in tiles, and plug-in roads and settlements enable you to enjoy CATAN almost anytime or anywhere.

The playing pieces peg securely into place. All the cards and accessories fit into the tray in the compact game box.

So, whether you're hanging out at a school or a coffee shop, cruising on the road, riding the rails, outside in windy wilds, or simply stuck in a tight place, you and your friends can now enjoy CATAN!

In the meantime, the portable edition has been released as CATAN Traveler in a significantly revised and improved version.

Age: 7+ Players: 3-6 Playing time: 20-30 min.

Publisher: KOSMOS

Teddy’s friends want to surprise their little darling with lots of nice presents in the morning.

The game board (1) shows a running field on which Teddy's friends scurry back and forth. At the start, everyone grabs three gift cards (2) and tries to get them to the birthday teddy’s room (3) as quickly as possible. If you choose the blue die to move forward, you will slowly but surely move forward.

It is not at all safe to use the fast red die. Because if you do this, you always have to reckon with the possibility that you must exchange your gift cards for the cards of an opponent who shouts "swap." Gee whiz! You'd have to be stupid to use the red die.

— Yes and no. —

If you grabbed very unattractive gifts with negative numbers at the start, you can aim at provoking a swap with the red die and then hold better cards in your hand. Or do you have good cards and everyone thinks they're bad? In any case, this is a great opportunity to bluff your opponents. By the way, the ownership of gift cards also changes when two or more teddies meet on a field and one of them shouts “jostle.” Then the players blindly draw a gift card from each other.

Here and there a banana peel is lying around, and when one of the birthday teddy's friends steps on it, gifts are sent flying and get lost. Each time one of the friends arrives in the birthday teddy’s room with great presents, the birthday teddy (4) advances one space in the direction of its room. When it finally gets there, the game ends and the player who brought the birthday teddy the most attractive gifts wins this turbulent game.

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 90-120 min.

Publisher: KOSMOS

Roughly 100,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left their African homeland and settled the entire world. In this game, we accompany our forebears on their adventurous journey.

Come join in the adventure that is the dawn of humankind! Will your tribe journey far and fast? Will they surmount the pain and dangers of this world? Will they bring you victory and survival? 

Based on the CATAN game system, but presenting players with all-new challenges unique to the dangers and opportunities of the Stone Age. The first branches of our species began a journey that spanned thousands of years, eventually leading them to Australia and America.

In this exciting game, you will guide the journey of one of these branches. You must struggle to spread your people over the whole world. In order to expand your branch, you must develop certain talents: advances in the preparation of food will allow your people to spread faster and wider, while new hunting techniques can protect them from dangers.

Digital CATAN game platform for Windows PC and later also for Mac, Linux and modern browsers.

Developer: Brettspielwelt GmbH

Publisher: CATAN GmbH

• From 2002 to 2016, PlayCatan was the online go-to for CATAN players.
• In 2002, the CATAN Online World was launched as a joint production by CATAN GmbH and T-Online.
• In 2003, CATAN GmbH also started an independent portal for Flash web games, titled "Klaus Teubers Spielwiese".
• As of 2007, CATAN GmbH operated the platform independently, without T-Online. CATAN Online World and Klaus Teubers Spielwiese now operated under the umbrella of PlayCatan. Initially, the CATAN Online World had only been available in Germany, on Windows PCs, but now it was offered internationally too.
• In 2014, in addition to the Java access software, a browser version in HTML5 was offered. In addition, the old "Klaus Teubers Spielwiese" web games became the "Klaus Teuber's Web Games" on a separate website.
• PlayCatan was discontinued in January 2016. United Soft Media developed a new online platform titled CATAN Universe.

Over the years, the range of games has been expanded and the graphics have also been continuously improved. It was developed and technically supported by Brettspiel GmbH during the entire term.

The following games have been offered on PlayCatan over the years:

• CATAN base game
• CATAN Seafarers (with various scenarios)
• CATAN Cities & Knights (with various scenarios)
• MultiCatan
• Troy
• Elasund
• Löwenherz
• Hoity Toity
• In the Realm of the Desert Sons
• CATAN - Card Game (as an add-on)
• Rivals for CATAN with the expansions Age of Prosperity and Age of Darkness

The first screenshots show the last available version from 2016 and the first published version from 2002. 

Developer / Publisher: CATAN GmbH

The first interactive game on Klaus Teuber's former homepage klausteuber.de, which at that time had just been launched.

Later, a revised version of the game was launched at  “Klaus Teubers Spielwiese”, a predecessor of “PlayCatan.”

Age: 12+ Players: 2 Playing time: 60-90 min.

Publisher: KOSMOS

Take the role of a starfarer! Daringly brave the unknown reaches of space! Explore and colonize new worlds, strike vital trade agreements, and perform missions of mercy while improving and preparing your starship for the journey home. If you work hard and choose your course carefully and vigorously, you will attain membership in the Council and learn the way home!

Beware! Not every alien in the galaxy will look upon you with friendliness. Dastardly space pirates desire your wealth and influence. Their raids are merciless, and their strength is growing! Be careful as you speed through the unknown! Only a careful balance of colonization and trade, bravery and caution, will lead you and your crew home.

Lost in the depths of space? Not a problem for a real starfarer! Activate your boosters for an adventure of space discovery!

Additional Missions

Age: 10+ Players: 2 Playing time: 40-60 min.

Publisher: KOSMOS

Hordes of daring adventurers answer the call. Everyone needs tools and lots and lots of whiskey. But dollars are rare!

Then you step onto the stage and the game begins. You just print a couple of promissory notes and press them into the dirty hands of the have-nots. $ 8 for Jenny Cassidy, not because of her beautiful blue eyes but because she knows how to use the gun. $ 6 for Jonas Smith, a better sort of gold digger! Well, you still have a dollar left for poor Janice Bone.

Now you just hope that the boozers don't get whacked before they've brought you enough nuggets in return for your generosity. You need the nuggets to become the most respected citizens of Tuzza-City and for that vexing payday.

Because on payday we have to redeem the promissory notes we've issued. But woe betide us if we don't have enough nuggets!

Age: 10+ Players: 3-4 Playing time: 60-90 min.

Publisher: KOSMOS

In the historical scenarios you harvest, trade, and build just as in the CATAN base game. However, additional simple rules allow historical events to be played out.

You need the CATAN base game to play these scenarios.

Troy

According to legend, Troy was besieged by the Greeks for 10 years. We do not know whether the reason for this was the abduction of beautiful Helen or the strategic location of Troy on the Dardanelles.

In this historical scenario, the players take on the roles of the neighboring peoples of Troy and the Greek city of Mycenae. At the beginning of the game, each player receives a secret decision card with which they either side with Troy or Mycenae. The game board shows Greece and Asia Minor.

At the beginning of the game, you place your first settlements and roads as usual. In your build phase, you may also donate resources. If your secret card shows Mycenae, you place lumber or grain face down beside the game board. If the card shows Troy, you secretly donate ore or wool.

Once 10 of these donated cards are beside the game board, you reveal 7 of them. The city that received more resources gains an advantage, which at the same time earns the supporters of this city additional victory points.

Those who donate not only help their city but also receive additional commerce points. Commerce points allow you to build trade ships, which brings you great advantages in the game.

If you have cleverly expanded your sphere of influence on land by building cities and settlements and gained supremacy at sea with your ships, you will ultimately have the edge on your opponents.

The Great Wall

During its long existence, the Chinese Empire was repeatedly a worthwhile target for peoples from the northern steppe. To protect themselves, over the course of centuries the Chinese built a great wall on the northern border of their empire.

In this historical scenario, you take on the roles of Chinese princes. Each of you is responsible for a section of the Great Wall and must fortify it sufficiently during the course of the game. If you neglect your task, the horsemen of the steppe will overrun the wall. As a result,the hexes behind the wall are occupied by the horsemen of the steppe and no longer produce, and you as the responsible player lose one victory point.

The game board shows the northern part of ancient China and the approximate course of the Great Wall. At the beginning of the game, each of you establishes two settlements. In addition, each of you places a border settlement on their wall section. Then you settle as usual.

Needless to say that as Chinese princes, you want to increase your influence by building roads, settlements, and cities. You can take on additional building projects to build wall sections in 5 stages. The higher the wall gets, the more the building costs increase. When certain numbers are rolled, the horsemen of the steppe advance toward the wall.

If a section of the wall is not high enough, the steppe riders break through and occupy valuable hexes behind the wall. You can use knights to drive them off. Knights are also ideal for redirecting the horsemen of the steppe in front of the wall to the wall sections of your opponents.

The first player to reach 10 victory points wins.

Age: 10+ Players: 2-4 Playing time: 90-120 min.

Publisher: KOSMOS

• Game of the Year 2001, Austria (Spiel der Spiele 2001, Austria)
• Essener Feder 2001 - Beste Spielregel (German award for best rulebook)

Land Ho! After your journey through chartless seas, a crewman has sighted land! But what kind of land? Will there be pirates? Or gold? Can you harvest the fruits of this jungle paradise? Resources are limited, so you must take care when selecting which route you will follow to victory. Will your courage hold long enough to secure your fame through exploration and discovery?

Unique tiles make every game of Entdecker a completely new experience. The size and shape of the islands develop differently in every game, so the excitement of discovery can be enjoyed again and again and again! But there is more to Entdecker than the exploration of the island chains! You must also use settlements, forts, and scouts to earn credit for your discoveries, while still negotiating with the tribes that call the islands home.

Journey to new and unexplored horizons with Entdecker!

Age: 6+ Players: 2-4 Playing time: 20-30 min.

Publisher: KOSMOS

Hello, we are little Robbies from Professor Rastlos's workshop. Freshly screwed together, we just have to get smart. We need chips for that!

With the help of a catapult, you throw a chip onto the game board. You should aim for a space near a Robby of your color.

Now each of you may move a Robby to the space the chip landed on. When several Robbies have gathered around the chip, a trial of strength takes place.

There is a die hidden in every Robby. When you lift your Robby, it appears. Yes, and the Robby whose die shows the most pips is stronger, and you put a chip into its back.

But watch out! Every time you draw a Robby, the die inside rotates. If you are the first player to equip each of your two Robbies with 4 chips, you win the game.

Digital Adaptation for Windows 98/ME/2000 

Developer: TriNodE Entertainment

Publisher: United Soft Media / Navigo

To win the game, you need to have a superior strategy - and a little bit of luck. Obtain resources and build roads, settlements, and cities. Play in multiplayer mode using the 5 Theme Sets Trade & Change, Knights & Merchants, Science & Progress, Politics & Intrigue, and Wizards & Dragons, or the basic cards.

Game modes: basic, expanded, tournament, base game against computer opponents.