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If you opt to play multiplayer, be forewarned…there is no local multiplayer on Catan for Nintendo Switch (more on this later). Scenario mode allows you to customize the rules and settings of your game a bit more. As you win games in campaign mode you unlock more maps to play. In single player mode you have the following options:Ĭampaign Mode gives you over a dozen maps from which to choose from and each map can be played on one of three difficulty levels. This will work for pretty much any Nintendo Switch game that doesn’t require motion controls.įirst off, the Nintendo Switch version of Catan gives you the standard game and the Seafarers Expansion included as part of the base game. I recently purchased the SN30 Pro+ game controller from 8BitDo and you can map different Nintendo Switch button actions to each button or stick on the controller. If you don’t like the button mapping on this game there is actually a hardware fix for that.
I highly recommend taking some time getting used to these buttons, especially before playing a multiplayer game where you only have 60-seconds to make your move before being penalized. Lots of functions each mapped to a specific button on the Joy-Cons (Image by Skip Owens) Pretty much every button on the two Joy-Cons are spoken for. You need both Joy-Cons to play this game because of the large number of buttons required for the various activities like viewing cards, trading, presenting a counter-offer on a trade and rolling the dice. Even if you are a seasoned veteran I highly suggest you play through the tutorial as the button mapping and controls are a bit complex. In addition to just reading the rule book in electronic form on the Nintendo Switch, going through the Catan Game Assistant App and watching the Catan episode of Tabletop you can also play through the tutorial session on the Nintendo Switch.
As you can see, player strategy in picking your location for settlements, how well you trade with others, and how you choose to invest the resource your earn plays a big part in the outcome of the game. You earn “victory points” when you build a settlement, build a city, acquire a victory point card or win an award like “longest road” or largest army.” There are a lot more details than what I just described, but that is the high level summary. In addition to getting resource cards after a roll, you can also trade cards with other players.
#CATAN 2 PLAYER UPGRADE#
Resource cards (in various combinations) allow you to build roads, more settlements, upgrade settlements to cities and buy development cards (which give you various advantages in the game). The main interface and board layout (Image from Nintendo)Įach player strategically selects where to place their initial settlements and if a player has a settlement that is adjacent to the number that was just rolled, that player gets a resource card from the settlement. Each player rolls two six-sided dice at the beginning of their turn and the number that was rolled determines which tiles on the board “produced” goods.
#CATAN 2 PLAYER SERIES#
The island is broken up into a series of tiles and each tile has a number (1-12) and a type of resource (ore, brick, grain and lumber). In the game of Catan, you are one of several “settlers” trying to build on the island of Catan. Here is my take on what the game Catan is all about (and I had never played until I played the Nintendo Switch version of the game just a few weeks ago):
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