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New Catan game with environmental mechanics
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- Title
- New Catan game has overpopulation, pollution, fossil fuels, and clean energy
- Authors
- Kevin Purdy
- Published
- Apr 2 2024
- Word count
- 508 words
The actual blurb is "New Catan game has overpopulation, pollution, fossil fuels, and clean energy" which is too long for a good title. This one has been released by Klaus Teuber's son, but was something they developed together.
I'm curious about it, but $70 is a little rich for preorder, so I will probably wait for reviews after it is released.
My wife and I played approximately a billion games of Catan back in the mid 2000's, so maybe we just burnt out on it, but I feel like a refresh could be good. I want to like Knights and Cities, but it just feels like it adds lot of complexity without much fun. Because it is so complicated, I have only been able to play it with people who are already pretty seasoned Catan players,
I got Catan a couple years ago and have been playing it with my family, but we don't get the chance to do it often. We usually have to at least partially refresh ourselves on the rules before we start. The nice thing about the original game is that it's a strategic board game for people who don't play strategic board games. The barrier of entry is low. I can't see the same being true of this new game. And the original doesn't have a political message, which, even if I agree with the message, I might not want on family board game night.
Interesting, but not interested, I guess.