I made a Catan-style game you play in the browser, and it's now completely free: every mode, online with friends, all 46 maps (I'm the dev)
I made a Catan-style game you play in the browser, and it's now completely free: every mode, online with friends, all 46 maps (I'm the dev) Full disclosure, I made this. It's called Hearthsea. It isn't official Catan and has nothing to do with Catan GmbH, but if you've played Catan you'll know what to do on your first turn. I just made all of it free. That's Classic, Seafarers and the new Highlands mode, every map, hosting online rooms for your friends, quick match, and all the cosmetics. You need an account (email or Google) and that's it. No pass, no daily game limit. That's the part that makes it different from the other ways to play Catan online. Those put the expansions and extra maps behind a purchase or a membership. Here nothing is locked. Highlands is the new one. Some hexes sit up on stone cliffs, and you can't build a road up a cliff, you need a mountain pass, which costs a brick and an ore. Up top there are copper mines that pay any resource you pick, and a yeti that blocks hexes up there the way the robber does down below. The first settlement you get onto each plateau is worth 2 points. If it's just two of you, the bots fill the other seats. They make their own trade