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(Each Region card, it's important to note, produces one of six resources: grain, ore, wool, timber, brick, or gold. The road is in the middle, between two settlements, with the six Regions surrounding them. Regions are then placed diagonally adjacent to each settlement (e.g., at the four corners). Each settlement is a little village, and the road goes between the two of them. These include: 2 settlements, 1 road, and 6 Regions. Setup: Each player has a deck of 9 cards. It's a bit better on return visits, but still time consuming. I had to read it twice, then muddle through actually placing down all the cards before I figured out exactly what was meant. The Settlers of Catan Card Game starts off with a setup that I'd have to call complex.

However, due to the computer generated art on some of the cards, I only give it "4" out of "5" for style, rather than a perfect score. It's clear that the producers of this Settlers card game were trying to pull the high quality design of the board game over to this new medium. One of the slots intended for holding cards actually tends to spill them all over, which is annoying. Unfortunately, the tray doesn't work that well. The box is very solid, and includes a tray for holding the pieces. Half of the book is made up of an "almanac", describing and explaining all the cards, which is very useful. It's adequate, though I found it somewhat hard to follow in places (possibly a result of the innate complexity of the game). The rulebook is 32 pages in black and white with a color cardstock cover. They each feature a gold-stamped pictured on a solid wood block they're used to denote bonus victory points (1 each). The knight and windmill tokens are each beautiful. Again, the icons are clear and intuitive. The event die is a six-sided die with a different colored icon on each face. The "production" die is a simple six-sider, numbered "*" to "*******". The rest of the main components are wood, all nicely manufactured. It's all intuitive and improves the gameplay. You have icons for the six resources, for victory points, for commerce points, and for a couple of knight statistics. All the cards make good use of icons to help clarify the game. The setup and development cards all feature somewhat crude 3D modelling pictures that I don't find appealing. The event and expansion cards tend to have decent, though small, pictures with descriptive text under them. There are a number of different types of cards (setup, development, expansion, event), but they're relatively easy to tell apart via clear pictures on the back. The cards are square with rounded corners, of a reasonable thickness. The Settlers of Catan Card Game is, for the most part, a card game in a fancy box. Jump To: The Components - The Game Play - The Game Design This game was originally published in Germany as Klaus Teuber's first follow-up to the successful The Settlers of Catan board game. The Settlers of Catan Card Game tries to offer a 2-player card game that builds on the same central ideas as The Settlers of Catan the result is fairly well done, though a bit lengthy for a casual two-player game.