Settlers of Catan game comes to iPhone, iPod touch

Exozet Games and United Soft Media have announced the release of Catan – The First Island, an adaptation of the beloved board game The Settlers of Catan. It cost $4.99 and is available for download from the App Store.

catan The Settlers of Catan – first published in Germany in 1995 – has received many awards and positive reviews. It’s a turn-based board game divided into hexagons in which players establish colonies on the island of Catan, building settlements and cities and spending resources like wood, grain and ore. The goal is to acquire victory points through building settlements and making upgrades.

Catan – The First Island is billed as “a faithful adaptation” of Settlers of Catan, with several updates already in the work which will add expansion sets, more options and further scenarios.

The game includes hot seat-style multiplayer support, computer-controlled opponents, scrollable game board with zoom, game statistics and a comprehensive tutorial.

Catan – The First Island runs on an iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 2.1 or later.

Torstein A.

I’m a gamer (RPG, board games, console games etc) and currently this is supposedly the best-selling board game on the planet. Personally, Catan is not one of my favorite boardgames IMHO it’s overhyped. But whatever. My opinion does not matter. The only thing that matters is that Catan is the best-selling and most successful boardgame on the planet in the past couple years. I guess getting it ported to iPhone is a good recognition to the iPhone’s importance as a gaming device.
http://www.loopinsight.com Peter Cohen

Catan-style games have already been released for the iPhone – in fact, they’ve been around for a while. But yeah, I’m glad to see the “official” version come too.
bronte

when will the next one be released