Overall Rating: 8 out of 10
Type: Board Game
Suggest Ages: 8+
# of Players: 3-4 players
Playing Time: 90 minutes
Replay-ability: 6 out of 10
Expansions available: Yes, 5-6 players, also different versions
Cost: Approximately $37
In Settlers of Catan, each player picks a place to station their settlements, the goal is to get resources. There are five resources: wood, wheat, ore, sheep, and brick. Players use these resources to build roads, more settlements, cities, and to buy development cards.
The goal is to reach 10 victory points. Players do this by building settlements (1 point), cities (2 points), longest road (2 points), largest army (2 points), or playing other development cards. Once a player reaches 10 points, every other player takes their turn, if play gets back around to the original player, then they win.
There is a robber function which activates when a player rolls a 7. Sometimes this happens frequently and sometimes not very much; it's all in the luck of the dice. When the robber is activated, the player that rolled the 7 gets to move the robber to whatever space they want and steal a card from a player that has a settlement or city adjacent to the place. If any player has more than seven cards, they must discard half of them. Ex. If player has ten cards, they must get rid of five of them.
I played this game for the first time with my family over the weekend. It was fun and also frustrating. It's nice to play games that are luck based, but it's also not always that fun because there's nothing you can do to improve your game besides roll better, which is just difficult without luck.
I would recommend this game. Though I do think it can be frustrating, especially if the robber is rolled too continuously because then everyone has to keep discarding and it's really difficult to make progress in the game.
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