Catan

Every time a GDPR announcement comes up, always randomly, it erases all the custom settings

Please allow backbone controller support

The game is just like the board game Catan. It is enjoyable. AI players are reasonable and fair. There are interesting expansion maps with unique layouts for a new challenge. The game only allows for the four player version however. And it seems a 7 is rolled 40-50% of the time so there is constant robbing in every game. That is the one thing that doesn’t feel like the real game and should be tweaked in my opinion.

It used to be a solid game. Ive played it for years. But you’ll want to put it down once you master the strategy. Let me tell you why:<br/><br/>You’ll start changing out your bot opponents to make it challenging. Eventually you’ll master where to put your first settlements. Most games, you’ll start out leading, with 4 or 5 victory points. Once that happens, your dice rolls are gone. The other 3 bots will take turns rolling 7’s, rolling low odds throws over and over, collecting resources, and using knight cards to steal from you. Its nearly impossible to win, and its ridiculous to watch what happens because its unrealistic. You can try to change your strategy to outsmart the algorithm by buying up development cards to block them, but then they will just win traditionally. <br/><br/>The developers need to fix this. Not to make it easy to win, but to mimic in-person gameplay. Nobody does a 3-way blockade against one player. Im uninstalling after almost 10 years. It sucks now.

Fine for scratching the Catan itch on-the-go or while passively watching something on TV. Seafarers and Cities &amp; Knights are worthy expansions with various scenarios and maps to choose from. I will probably pay for and play all of them over time because the prices are reasonable and it helps pass the time; though, I do wish other expansions could be added (such as The Helpers).<br/><br/>However, the AI has something very much to be desired here. The “stats” don’t seem to carry over to the actual game at all; you will quickly learn which bots are jerks and which are trying to play the game, and it has nothing to do with the stats that the game touts as a feature. Furthermore, they appear to unfairly target the human player; not necessarily because they are human, but because the CPU knows what resources the human player has and what cards they have, and because victory point cards are counted automatically they target the human player even if the victory point total is supposed to be hidden from them. On the note of the CPU programming, it was abundantly clear to me right away that the AI never takes any risks, regardless of supposed “skill level” (again, an issue with the “stats” not being applied in any tangible way). At least the digital console version features CPUs that will take the occasional risks on some trades.<br/><br/>Bottom line: don’t expect this version of the game to meaningfully train you up on solid Catan play. It is simply too basic for that purpose. But if you want to play Catan to pass some time, it does, at least, provide you with an avenue to do so. Functional as it is, however, it’s hard to recommend it to anyone that loves Catan in any and all of its forms.

Because this game is pretty fun I liked it because when I’m stressed it helps me whine down that’s why I like this game very life and the name of it is Catan it is pretty fun I love this game so much that I prefer that your kid should use this app and I’ll give it five stars for it and also this game doesn’t have any ads that’s why I prefer your child having a game like this.

It forces you to enter a password everytime you start a new game or if it kicks you or you leave a frozen game

Don’t waste your money. It is slow and worse made then the free catan universe