
7 Games to Play If You Love Catan
Catan is the game that cracked open the hobby for more people than any other title. The hexagonal tiles, the dice, the trading, the “I’ll give you two ore for a wheat” - it’s embedded in a generation of board gamers. BGG rank #620, weight 2.28 out of 5, rated 7.09 across nearly 130,000 votes. Not the most acclaimed game on BGG, but possibly the most important one. But Catan has a ceiling. The luck can feel punishing. The trading degrades into kingmaking. The robber loses its sting after a hundred games. And at some point, you find yourself wanting something with more teeth - or just something different that still scratches that same itch. ...
