Catan

Every time we play Catan, I know I'm going to spend the next hour+ thinking about all of the ways I could be having more fun, like jamming a rusty ice pick up my urethra. I've never had even a little bit of fun while playing it, and I cannot for the life of me see why people like it.

We used to have this game years ago, and it was an awesome game. I wanted to play it again and it works. It’s still fun. But the board is flimsier, doesn’t really stay together — and then I purchased the expansion pack and it DOESN’T FIT. The cards of the expansion pack are larger, the pieces have d...

Catan is a common gateway drug, but I wouldn’t call it a gold standard by any means. Once I discovered more modern games I never went back to Catan.

A great game of strategy and some luck. The design of the game ensures that there are variations to the game every time, so you don't get sick of the game quickly. If you like strategy games, you will like this. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is there are often times where it is not going well fo...

Catan. The luck in it drives some people crazy which is totally understandable. I usually hate lucky games but Catan is the expection to rule because how interactive/competitive it is for such a simple game and expansions give it more variety, fix the core issues of the base game, and add more replayability.

It's a good game. It usually takes 60-90 minutes to play, best with four players. Get the extension if you want five or six players. The game involves the strategic gathering of resources and trading with opponents. Instead of traveling across a board to reach the end or a certain destination, Settl...

With 2 players I find the game easily stalls with the frequent robber dice rolls. Sure, with trade tokens one can easily get rid of the robber, but 7s come up way too frequently with 2 consecutive dice rolls (with only one roll of 7 considered) so we always end up at the scenario in which all trade tokens are depleted and the other player is just waiting to roll a 7 again to remove the robber. But aside from these Catan is fun to play. I liked the resource-gathering and trading aspect of the game.

I’m a fan of the board game and enjoy playing. Can’t really be played with 2 people all that well, 3-4 is better. It is easy to learn and has some resource strategy. Not to aggressive to other players either. Box was damaged though, happened before shipping since the cardboard box it came it was fin...

It's a good starter game to get people into the hobby or just to play with family or friends who don't play a lot of board games because it's pretty easy to learn and games tend to be neither too short nor too long. Although many board game enthusiasts find that Catan is a bit shallow and a little too luck-based, I think it's generally agreed that it's a much better experience than other big-name mainstream games like Monopoly.

I had already played this game multiple times with friends before I decided to buy it. Of course we love it, and we use it a lot. I just don't get why it's so expensive, given that most of the pieces are made of cardboard... Still, if you've played the game before, definitely a worthwhile buy.