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Catan Card Game

A two-player Catan reimagined as a card game, rotating resource cards and racing to build villages and cities.

A two-player reimagining of Catan built entirely from cards. You start with two villages and a road, then buy more roads, villages, and cities to earn victory points. Six resource cards track your goods by rotation rather than piles: roll the number die and you turn the matching card to show one more of that resource. Familiar Catan flavor, tuned for a duel.

Track resources by rotating cards, not pilesTwo-player duel built from card stacksKeeps Catan's dice production and building race

Who it's for

Couples and pairs who love Catan and want a dedicated two-player version with the same building-and-trading feel in card form.

Not for you if…

You want to play with more than two, or prefer a quick session. This is a longer, fiddlier duel than the box's card format suggests.

Vibe's take

Familiar Catan rhythms of dice production and building, tightened into a longer, thinky head-to-head duel for two.

#1,387 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 1996 · 30 years ago

older than 95% of games

In 27,235 collections

collected more than 94% of games

2 players · ages 12+

Best with 2 · publisher: 10+

60–120 min

longer than 87% of games · typical 30–90 min

Complexity: medium

One warm-up round · 2.4 out of 5 · heavier than 67%

Opinions: usual spread

A normal range of ratings

Language: lots of text

Lots of text, fluency helps

Play style: competitive