Review 5 - The Settlers of Catan

Settlers of Catan, "Spiel de Jahres" 1995, is a great family game, very popular.

Review - The Settlers of Catan

Designer: Klaus Teuber
Year Published: 1995
Nº Players: 3-4

Purchasing - Nowadays, Catan is a huge trademark with several variants and expansions, but this version was the first one, the original, you can buy this game almost everywhere. This game I also inherit, in this case my girlfriend, one more game that I only played recently, because in Portugal Catan wasn't for sale.

Components - Today, the new versions have better versions of the board, my version has the hexes all loose, and sometimes a knock in the pieces can ruin the all game. Cards are nice and the wooden pieces too.

Game play - It's a game easy to learn, it has some cool mechanics and it's very fun.

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Resumed Rules :
The rules are a bit complicated at first, but after the first play everybody gets it. So the objective of the game is to get 10 points, how do you get 10 points? Several ways, each villa 1 point, if upgraded to city 2 points, longest street 2 points, collection of cards 2 points. That's the scoring, now the mechanics, there are several fields that provide certain resources and each one as a random number, and players start with 2 villas and 2 streets. The turn as 2 phases, the dice throw, and the number is the resources that each players gets (example: if I have a villa connected to a field and the number is throw, i get one resource for each villa i have connected, 2 resources if I have a city), and the second phase is to buy cards, villa, street or city.
The game ends when a player reaches 10 points.

Evaluation - I give a 8 out of 10. It's a great game and everybody should play it at least once.