"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. Ahoy!
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.
Features:
- Available languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese
- Original "Settlers of Catan" rule set
- Update 4.0+: Synchronous online multiplayer games
- Smart computer opponents with individual strategies
- Scrollable game board including zoom option
- Freely combinable game settings
- Game statistics
- Comprehensive tutorial
- Seafarers LITE: New scenario "The 4 Islands" and two additional game variants
- Cities and Knights LITE: Test the new expansion in the scenario “The first Island”
- 3 different graphic sets to choose from
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Catan FAQ:
Question: An expansion seems gone after an update or reinstallation of Catan or after restoring the device?
Answer: Don’t worry! Your initial purchase is already saved in your iTunes account. You can restore your InApp purchases by selecting the restore-option in the Catan IAP menu.
Question: I lost my campaign progress after reinstalling, updating or restoring my device. Is there any way to restore it?
Answer: When saved games can’t be automatically restored, we’ve integrated a cheat code: In the campaign mode go to select player and enter „CatanWarp*“ (* = 1–15) as your player name and confirm. Exit the game via the home button and restart it. The campaign can now be continued from the specified level number (1–15). Levels up to the specified number will be unlocked in the custom game mode as well.
Question: Are dice rolls really random?
Answer: Of course! All dice rolls are 100% random and not modified in any way. We’re avid Catan players ourselves. We’ve played the iOS version hundreds of times while developing the program. There have been times when we won and lost a few games in a row because of the dice - just like when playing the board game!
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Questions or suggestions for improvements:
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I would absolutely rate this app 5 stars it’s so good. There is 1 bug on online games that bothers me enough and happens enough to be very annoying and happen very often so brings my review to 3. It’s SO annoying when it happens. Also super fixable i think so I’m hoping this review can help patch the bug, make it better. If you are in the game and it crashes or if an opponent crashes, it sometimes is not a big deal. Everyone loads back in to a screen that says “match recovered” And if everyone selects yes to reconnect, you just reload in and continue where you left off. Awesome. Sometimes one person doesn’t reconnect and or leaves for whatever reason maybe on accident / unable to or maybe on purpose if they have a bad start for example. Well if they don’t load in, the remaining players just sit at that screen and can’t load in to finish the game, don’t even know if the player that is gone is going to reconnect or if they left. And there isn’t anyway for the remaining players to remove that person even if they’ve waited on that reconnecting screen for that person to come back. So eventually, you just get tired of waiting and players will leave and can’t finish their game. Aside from that, game is very easy to use, fun and enjoyable!
Horrible CPU AI and Buggy Game
Thebasher31
I only play this because there are no better alternatives, and I love Catan, but it’s still bad. The CPU initial settlement placement is so bad that if you pick 3rd or 4th, you’re guaranteed to get two elite production spots while 1st and 2nd are terrible. Then, the CPU will constantly target you with the robber the entire game even if you’re not winning. It’s ridiculous. The CPU will constantly trade each other exactly what they need to build a settlement, road, development card, or city to screw over the user. They ALWAYS seem to have knight cards when the robber gets placed on their territory but also ALWAYS have monopoly, year of plenty, etc. when the robber is on your space. Also, the CPU definitely spends resources they don’t have. In a recent game I played, the CPU built a settlement and bought a dev card despite having only 6 resources and never producing or trading for ore. I’ve had the CPU build a city on its first turn despite neither their ore or wheat hex being rolled (you can only start with 3 resources from your second placement, so they would’ve needed two rolls to get a city). Don’t even get me started on how your numbers always get rolled after the robber gets placed on that number. Finally, the game crashes constantly, like at least 3-5 times a game. Overall, the game IS Catan, but it’s brutally stacked against the user since the CPU can’t outsmart a semi-decent player. IF the game works, it’s a 3.5 star game, but the crashes bring it down.
Save your money
DeRealFerg
I usually never think about writing reviews, however, I feel it’s necessary. I LOVE the board game, and I thought having this as an option to play would be fun. It isn’t, the game is really buggy, it kicks you from games and sometimes pressing a button doesn’t register and you’re stuck there waiting for the game to respond. I would simply be playing the game and I’d get kicked or a player would be disconnected — it’s super frustrating. Speaking of players, I would have a full 3-4 player game with all online players and even with a mix of AI — it feels like the game is rigged sometimes or a player is cheating (even if they’re not) in favor of certain players for the probability of some of the spaces on the board are low and when a player (most of the time AI) roles the dice — it favors those low probability spots of opponents multiple times in a row and you’re left there thinking “How?” — like the chances of those dice rolling that low probability of a number on their settlements multiple times in a row is extremely low. Also, it’s may be the game disconnecting other players, but when playing and you make a strategic move against your opponent, they just up and leave and then you’re left just playing with AI taking over their spot or exiting and restarting another lengthy game. Just do yourself a solid and save your $6.00 for you to purchase the board game yourself and put the phone away to spend time with family and friends. The tech and this game doesn’t work well and I will be requesting my refund as soon as I get my receipt from Apple.
Brought down by the little big things
Toreleg
The app is fun and great for down time at work during break, which is when I’ve been playing for the last few weeks. I have played the regular board game Catan with a group of friends a handful of times over the past year, so I am not an experienced settler but I have experience with the basic game and one game with the seafarers expansion pack. I mention this so people can know that I’m not critiquing the gameplay. Playing on the app (campaign only) has given me a lot of experience and improved my game. It keeps me playing for 20-30 minutes at a time because of the smoothness and easy flow of the game. However I give the app 2 stars because of 2 big annoyances to me. Twice I’ve had the campaign freeze on me during a computers turn where nothing happens yet I can save and quit to come back to the same stuck game. The other issue is the blatant ai advantage. It is not fun to be one point away from victory, or one resource away from getting a vital settlement or city, and then have the computer constantly roll 7’s to steal all my resources and deny me from making my move for 10 turns. I would prefer difficulty to come from AI intelligence rather than fixed rolls. I have not tried online play, and I see that you can change the rolls in custom games. I enjoy the campaign so I would rather play that instead of a custom game with accurate rolls. I also have not tried changing the difficulty to easy to see how it changes the campaign, so maybe I’ll do that and see how the rolls change.
Thank you for playing Catan! This release contains bug fixes and new features that make our product even better.
The following is new:
- Integrated account delete option for online accounts
- Multiple smaller compatibility fixes
Version 4.8.2
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