Catan Universe Game Reviews

VERSION
2.3.5
SCORE
3.9
TOTAL RATINGS
25,851
PRICE
Free

Catan Universe Game Description & Overview

What is catan universe app? Play your favorite game CATAN anytime and anywhere: the original board game, the card game, the expansions and ‘CATAN – Rise of the Inkas‘, all in one app!

After a long voyage of great deprivation, your ships have finally reached the coast of an uncharted island. However, other explorers have also landed on Catan: The race to settle the island has begun!

Build roads and cities, trade skillfully and become Lord or Lady of Catan!

Go on a journey to the Catan universe, and compete in exciting duels against players from all over the world. The board game classic and the Catan card game bring a real tabletop feeling to your screen!

Play with your Catan Universe account on the device of your choice: You can use your login on numerous desktop and mobile platforms! Become part of the huge worldwide Catan community, and compete against players from all over the world, and on all supported platforms.

The board game:
Play the basic board game in multiplayer mode! Join two of your friends for a maximum of three players and face all the challenges in “Arrival on Catan”.

Make things even more exciting by unlocking the full Basegame; the expansions “Cities & Knights” and “Seafarers”, each for up to six players. The special scenario pack containing the scenarios “Enchanted Land” and “The Great Canal” adds even more variety to your games.

The game edition ‘Rise of the Inkas‘ is another exciting challenge for you, as your settlements are doomed in their heyday. The jungle swallows the signs of human civilization, and your opponents seize their chance to build their settlement at the location they crave for.

The card game:
Play the introductory game of the popular 2 player card game “Catan – The Duel” online free of charge or master the free “Arrival on Catan”, to permanently unlock the single player mode against the AI.

Get the complete card game as an in-game purchase to play three different theme sets against friends, other fans friends or different AI opponents and submerge yourself into the bustling life on Catan.


Features:

- Trade – build – settle – Become Lord of Catan!
- Play on all your devices with one account.
- Faithful to the original version of the board game “Catan”, as well as the card game “Catan – The Duel” (aka “Rivals for Catan”)
- Design your own avatar.
- Chat with other players and form guilds.
- Participate in seasons and win amazing prizes.
- Play to earn numerous achievements and unlock rewards.
- Get additional expansions and play modes as in-game purchases.
- Get started very easily with the comprehensive tutorial.


Free-to-play content:

- Basic game free matches against two other human players
- Introductory game free matches Catan – The Duel against a human player
- “Arrival on Catan”: Master the challenges in all areas of the game to get more red Catan suns.
- You can use Catan suns to play against the computer. Your yellow suns recharge on their own.


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Questions or suggestions for improvements:
Mail to support@catanuniverse.com
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App Name Catan Universe
Category Games
Published
Updated 02 October 2023, Monday
File Size 773.43 MB

Catan Universe Comments & Reviews 2024

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So close, but too buggy and some bad UX. This game is so close to being one of the best apps on the App Store but it has way too many bugs and issues. A few games in a row now I’ve been foiled by a bug where if you have two ports, a 3 -for-any-resource port and a 2 for something specific port, trading with the bank forces me to pay 3 even if I’m buying the good I should be able to get for 2. Also if I tap the face in the right (which I think might be Arrival on Catan) it asks me to register, even though I’m currently already logged in. And if I log in again it still asks me, forever. Also there’s some really weird UX. Besides the board being a bit unintuitive at first, the game mode buttons at the bottom are also completely unlabeled. They keep telling you to play Arrival on Catan but give you no indication of what this is or how to do it. And you can buy the full version of the game at the shop but it’s very vague what exactly you get from purchasing it. I don’t know if this is a bug or a penalty for paying free but I also get the same map with the same resource and number placements every time. If that is an incentive for upgrading, it’s not doing its job because they don’t make that fact clear.

Not even fun. Super buggy and only allows 3 player multiplayer at a time. Most of the time it seems like the “multiplayer” is just ai that gangs up on you. Trade is non-existent, to the point that you have to accept bad deals for any deal to be made or an entire game will literally go without trade. I played 20 games and each time, the dice rolls kept giving numbers that I was not on (if I played by 8, six would be rolled mainly, if you play by six then 10 would be rolled) it gets pretty ridiculous when six turns go by and you don’t get a single resource because none of your numbers got rolled, then you have to skip your turn again while you watch the other two get all of the resources. Then on to building. You don’t always get to build settlements even if you have the resources. I have had to maritime trade resources hoping that I can make some kind of comeback by adding a settlement after a freshly made road is put down and then there isn’t even option to make one. So you’ll end up with plenty of useless roads instead of settlements that can help you out.

Amazing game, app could use a little work. Catan is obviously an incredible game, and I have a ton of fun playing it in this app. Really great being able to play with friends, being able to send messages back and forth etc. The reason I am not giving this 5 stars is because the app itself could use a little bit of work. For example, I am on an iPhone XR. A lot of times when I click to see info on something, the text window that pops up has a portion off screen, which makes it unreadable. It is quite frustrating sometimes when I need to be able to read something and can’t. I payed the 5 dollars for the app, and I would be willing to bet many other people have too. Some of that money should be used to pay a programmer to fix these issues. It would not be difficult and I would be more than happy to fix it for free just to get it done. Other than that, I’m very happy with the purchase.

Great game, horrible developers.. I have never experienced a game with so much glitches/ bugs ever! It’s sad because it’s such a great game! My family and I used to always play the board game in person. Since we live I different cities we were all so excited when we discovered we could play this online on our phones! That excitement quickly became anger/frustration when we realized it’s almost impossible to set up the game to play with your family/friends online. Always get an error message when trying to invite a friend from your friend list. It was just a nightmare. In about 6 months we were probably able to make it work just a few times. Every time an “update” would come up, we were positive and thought maybe they had fixed that issue, but NOPE, same problem as ALWAYS. If you want to play with family/friends online, do yourself a favor and try Colonist io. I discovered it about 2 weeks ago-download it- asked my family to download it-created and account- added each other as friends- and guess what? It actually works. No glitches/ bugs/ error messages/ lost communication with server/ nothing like that. Just fun playing with my family. You can become a member which unlocks more maps, modes, etc but it is a bit pricy (monthly payment) but I personally think it is worth it as it connects me with my family and allows us to have some fun. We play it all the time now. Sad these developers have never been able to fix that issue.

Super fun, good rendition of the board game, but there are some quirks. This is really enjoyable and you don’t have to pay anything to be able to play and experience all the types (you only get to play the expansions once if you don’t pay for them, but at least you can “test drive them”). The tutorials are good with one exception; the one-on-one tutorial is almost non-existent. Lastly, for some reason, on this game, you can build between someone else’s roads. It was my understanding that you could not do this on the board game, but you can here. All in all, this is a well done app that you can play with family and friends who have their own account. Oh yeah, to be able to play, you don’t have to pay but you do need to set up an account to play with others. Happy Settling!!

Terrible terrible app. I love catan and have been playing for years. I’ve begrudgingly played with this app over the years dealing with the constant bugs and issues because it’s basically the only option. After hundreds of hours of play I finally reached the rank of grandmaster. That’s when the development team decided to migrate their servers. I’ve come to find out that my account has been lost in the migration with no option for recovery. The support team first told me that my account never existed. After I found a screenshot of my position on their leader board, their solution is for me to simply create a new account and start over. What an absolute joke. They have made it very clear that there is no way to adjust the ranking of my new account. You would think they would of backed up and recorded the leader board ranking if this was at all a possibility during the migration. What prompted me to write a review is that I just launched the app to create a new account and it’s so buggy that I can’t even do that. Keep up the good work dev team!

Perfect solution for isolation from fellow Catanians. As more and more of my family and friends are exposed to Catan, it is becoming the perfect solution to playing together long distance. I really don’t have much else to say except it provides a near exact representation of the original game in a virtual format. However, note for the app developers, there have been a few coding changes over the past 6 months that I feel could be improved: For example: Incremental numbers that are added or subtracted, such as the number of cards or roads you have in your posession, are being calculated and displayed BEFORE the visual annimation of the cards or roads is being applied. Although this does not change the end result of the calculations, it does cause some visual confusion because it quickly calculates your numbers, and then you watch the cards come and go, but the numbers stay the same because they already changed. Is it possible to adjust the order of the coding to allow for the calculations to take place AFTER or more in SYNC with the visual animations?

Computer works against you. Really wish the dice roles were actually random, it just ruins the game. Nearly every game just favors the computer. If you have settlements on high probably numbers they basically never role, and anytime you have over 7 cards you get hit with the robber. Computer can literally have +15 cards for like 3 hands, ranking them in somehow from 2’s and 12’s but as soon as you hit 8, boom robbed. Not to mention the cards you do get are useless. Anytime I get ahead on points it’s impossible to get the cards I need to win and finish the game, and you have to watch the computer magically get everything and gain +5 points in like 3 rounds while you just keep getting sheep until you are over 7 cards and then you somehow role 7 every single time and have to give everything away. It’s programmed for you to get close to that win, and then it just somehow slips through your fingers so you keep coming back for more. I read some of the reviews and thought people complaining about the dice roles were just people upset they were losing, but after playing multiple games I completely understand it. I’m glad I haven’t wasted any money on this app and only played the free version because it’s really disappointing.

A great game gone wrong. I love Catan. This app has all the right ideas: great layout, art design, and more. The free option is really good, though I wish I could play more than once every 12 hours. I would gladly buy this game, but unfortunately it’s not worth it. If you’ve read the other reviews you might see issues with the AI. It’s crap. There’s no point in playing master AI, the novice ones seem to be able to play at that level. Random generated dice? It doesn’t seem that random. I’ve probably played at least 100 games so far. Too often what happens is that every number you’re not on is what gets rolled. Let’s say you’re on 8 but not 6 (6 is rolled more often) and vice versa. I’ve had amazing games where I start with 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 (or similar). And yet, 6 and 10 become the hot numbers that game, sometimes occurring consecutively. I’ve had games where 2 has been rolled 4 times in a row. I just played a game where I was ahead by 6 points, and then the AI “somehow” got these amazing rolls to come back and beat me by 3 points. Until they fix the dice and AI, I would just stick to the free version. If you buy the game, then you’re still going to have the issues they were having now

Glitchy but worth it. My friends and I used to have “Catan” nights often for our game nights. Now that we are in Covid crisis it’s been a nice supplement - and with all the practice I am getting much better at the game strategy. However it is a very glitchy product. Once I reached Level 9 and went to switch devices and the game forgot my account. I literally tried to reset my password and no matter how many times i attempted to reset I got a “this account does not exist” message. I believe it because I was able to make a new account with the same user name and my fiancé still has my old account as a friend but the name changed to John Doe. My fiancé also had issues with logging back into his account after changing passwords and we had to reach out to the support email. From the online community it looks like there have been a ton of issues but I still find it worth playing because it is free and kills time. Because of the glitches I would not invest in the full game. Maybe if the support team gets it together I will reconsider but for now the free version is enough for the hassle.

Randomize the dice. I love Catan but this game is frustrating. I played free for as long as I could stand it and finally made the switch to get the random board and a couple of the add ons (cities and knights/ harbor master). You can have great board placement with all the right resources and lots of good numbers and no matter how many roles you are getting nothing. When you finally get a couple roles and just get over 8 cards a 7 roles. Meanwhile other players with terrible placement get the same number rolled 4 out of 5 rolls. I’m competitive by nature but this really needs to be fixed. Dice are random but certain numbers should show up more. I just played half a game and while the other players had two or three settlements, I had one road and bought a development card to stay below 8. I just needed two roads from the beginning of the game to move past another player. He is going the complete other way one his other settlement, I then finally get the wood I need for the road and he blocks me. I start the road to go around and on his next turn he places 3 or 4 roads to block me again, without a road building card. Please fix this and make the game about the board placement like it is in real life. Also when is the tournament play supposed to be added?

Better than you think. After seeing this game with only a two star rating I was worried about trying it but I did anyways. After downloading it I set up an account because why not...it was free. Even though I already knew how to play the base game Catan it put me through an tutorial which was helpful in the sense to figure out the controls of the app. After the quick tutorial I played a game against the AI and I had a lot of fun. I mean who doesn’t after they win. The game didn’t go easy nor did I feel like I was being teamed up on. It felt authentic and fair throughout. One of my favorite things about this version is that it keeps track of your wins and loses. It’s pretty sweet. You level up as you play and unlock different looks for your avatar and different virtual tables to play on. You can join up with friends and play that way, random matchmaking, or against the AI. Another thing to note is I had no issue logging in or setting up an account as others stated. It seems like the developer is working hard to keep the app up to date and I would hate to see this one die. I was very impressed and will update as I experience the app further.

I want to enjoy playing it. This game is fun, and I’ve just started to play it more often as I’ve decided to try out the different scenarios. But after playing my last 3 games of the scenario Cities & Knights, I’m frustrated. In all 3 games, the minute I started to gain 3-4 victory points more than the AI players, I all of a sudden would stop getting resources…my numbers wouldn’t be rolled at all. This last time, I clocked it and by the time I shut down the game, it had been near 15 minutes since I had gotten a single resource. Do you know how many times the dice get rolled in 15 minutes? And you’re telling me that the 9 hexes/numbers I had just coincidentally didn’t get rolled at all? And I played against rookie level AI players, just trying to see if maybe the higher level AI players were the reason. This has happened the last 3 days. So, to say my interest in this game is starting to wane is an understatement.

Great except.... The dice rolling. I’m sure I’m not the first to say so and I’m certainly not going to be the last. It might be the only thing I dislike about the app as a whole, but it honestly leeches the joy out of the game. I find myself prioritizing how I think the dice rolls will play out based on the board rather than good strategy. Is there 8 on lumber with a lumber port, don’t count on 8’s rolling. Just use the inventor card? I’ll put money it rolls whatever you switched out. Robber get placed on your number guarantee it gets rolled immediately after and probably 2 or three times in a row. How bout some stats? I just played a game where out of the first 30 rolls 15 of them were the same 2 numbers. I’ve been playing this game for years, pre the Catan universe release and I’ve enjoyed a lot of it. One of the few apps I’ve ever been more than happy to purchase. But the dice roll algorithm is utterly broken, I’d even says it’s getting worse and it might push me away. Please don’t let that happen. PLEASE, PLEASE fix this.

King card cannot be placed. Update: the issue with the king card was resolved the game still needs to be simplified with the controls but none the less it’s a great game with developers who are making consistent adjustments and updates. I highly recommend! The game is good until it comes time to place the king card once that happens when you click it your finger is able to drag it around the screen but it won’t place, when you remove your finger from the screen the king card goes back into your deck. They need to just make it a button to press verses dragging it it’s to complex and needs to be simplified. If this gets fixed then honestly the game would be worth 5 stars but it ruins the game play entirely so it’s my ranking is 3 stars until this problem is fixed. I did look online but could not find anyway to place the king card so I’m really hoping for an update that addresses this issue. It’s a game with great potential!

Extremely disappointed. Get the game... that’s about as far as my story goes. I play one game (tutorial game) stupid because one person got kicked for inactivity. Then after that I finish the settling into Catan or whatever the overall tutorial is and still can’t play the different versions of the regular mode, which it says you need to complete and I did... then all the sudden I can’t even log in because it keeps saying timing out when I have perfectly good internet connection. Then I finally can get logged in and it “can’t connect to the server”, so irritating and I’ve tried like 20 times and still can’t connect to the server. Then I go on the forum and apparently this problem has been going on for two weeks and not a thing has been fixed. Honestly ridiculous and embarrassing for them. Like you get hired to do this crap and you can’t even fix a problem that makes the game UNPLAYABLE... ridiculous. Not even sure how the heck it has 4 stars I LOVE CATAN, LOVE THE IDEA, CANT EVEN PLAY, so who gives a crap what your trying to do, if you can’t play it it doesn’t matter. That’s like showing people you can give them a million bucks if they roll a 2 with a dice, but there’s only ones... oh and one last thing, AI’s freeze up after playing 7s. Think that should be an easy one to fix, but you also can’t FIX YOUR MAIN SERVER... poor people who actually payed for this game and can’t get a refund. Fix this game in less then a week and this 1 Star turns into a 5 in snap...

Was really hoping for 5 human player support. Got the original app hoping to play it as a family, nope. We all have ticket to ride which supports up to 5 live players locally or online, replaces with an Ai in the event of disconnect and uses a karma system to curb game quitters etc. I was excited to see this game released in an updated app, hoping for an experience like that of ticket to ride, or even exploding cats, this isn’t even close yet. With 3 local people playing in the online setting we can’t even get through 1 quarter of a 10 point basic first island game. It glitches or crashes like everyone comments on, not only for special moves like the robber, just at random, taking away the ability to end a turn, forcing all of us to leave the game because the end turn button disappears. We are keeping the app and sincerely hoping they get some good programmers to put this in order because sooo many of us would be ecstatic and support it. 3 stars for the potential and hope to have it in the future although, sadly, it isn’t playable right now.

Catan App. Love that i can now have Catan on my phone so I can play wherever I go, overall a great app! Only minor critique here as a long term Catan player, the trade options are limited, like you can’t counter offer and that’s a pretty big oversight, you also can’t offer trades to players when it is not your turn, also would be nice if there were pre set dialogues that you can use like Catan online used to have, and the messaging option is only accessible by going into a screen separate from the view of the board, maybe that’s not a big deal to some but it would be helpful to see the chat on the board screen, and last, my only big gripe with the app is the obnoxious angles, I often get stuck at a really awkward viewing angle and I still sometimes can’t get it to show a top view of the board, I mean it’s kind of cool the board view is interactive but it really is more of an annoying feature, if they could add some controls to the view that would be great or just eliminate it altogether, anyways it’s cheap so can’t really say it’s a bad app just needs a few renovations and it will be supreme!

Inconsistent enforcement. I feel like this game has potential. But there’s several glitches and no way to report them or get help. There’s also “tournaments” that you can register for-but never get accepted into. There’s also clans-but they are pretty much dead too, even the 200+ ones. There’s the inability to really customize some of the rules but that’s okay. Lastly-the dice rolls are beyond random. Every single online match there are the same dice rolls 4x+ in a row but others get ignored entirely (for example 6 gets rolled 4x in a row). Odds are that this will happen at some point. But it happens way too consistently for it to be tolerable. Here’s some example of the glitches. 1-Seen bases placed one space apart. 2-there are times it won’t allow a base to be placed when opposing roads lead up to each other, but other times it will. 3-the harbor master doesn’t always get filled, have had a city and town on ports with no points given. 4-bots can offer trades on your turn but you can’t do it? I paid for the expansion to enter into tournaments which was a mistake. Can’t enter tournaments, deleted the game a few days later.

Clicking small tiles is impossible. Let me preface this: I’m a new player who just wanted to truly get into this game. I had played it once in college, but I never went past that. The board and game were cool, but it was expensive and not many of my friends knew about it. Years later I want to learn the rules and pick it up to introduce it to my awesome younger cousins. Here’s the issue; there very little feedback on your clicks. No “you can’t place that ship there because you need a settlement.” It’s just a poof and you don’t know if you misclicked or forgot a rule. I had one game where I tried to place a ship 9 times in a row, and eventually looked to other strategies. Turns out next turn, I learned I could have placed a ship there like I wanted to and felt like my time was wasted. It’s definitely not as intuitive as joining a group of strangers and having them help me “pick it up as you go.” As a final complaint related to strangers, they would trade with you more often than the AI would. I got so frustrated that I had to let the AI come to me with trades since none of them would accept my 6 card pleas. You just feel against the whole world which is a terrible atmosphere for community driven game that Catan is. This game could have a Civ. Style of play where certain characters would act in specific ways (gunning for longest roads and 4 cities), and I really hope it gets there. Fix the UI and the AI, and I’ll be back for more adventures in Catan.

Rigged play makes it annoying. Update: the dice rolls aren't too bad now but my cities are only paying out 1 resource instead of 2 so it stills feels impossible to get ahead. There's nowhere in the app to submit issues with the programming. I tried the free version for a few days and it was fun so I bought it. I haven't even come close to winning one game since I bought it. It seems insane that the dice rolls are hitting 5s 3 out of 6 rolls in the AI's favor. Every 2 turns it benefits me but the rest of the rolls alternate between my opponents getting resources or them getting the robber and placing it on my hexes and stealing from me. One turn 3 of the 4 opponents rolled a 7 and moved the robber around all of my hexes stealing from me. Also, none of the AI will trade with me even if I offer up to 5 cards in a number of combos to get one card. So I'm stuck trying to save up to trade but magically when I finally get enough to do what I need a 7 is rolled making me throw out 1/2 my cards. They had an outage to upgrade the system at the time I bought it so I'm not sure if this is the paid version or the new "upgrade" but it makes playing the game feel pointless and annoying since the dice rolls and all the opponents team up against you.

Add ability to mute group chat. Some players are really aggressive and question you and harass you every time you put a robber on their spot; use cards to steal their resources, etc. That is what you are supposed to do! It’s the game! It’s worse in the basic game than in Cities and Knights. People use really insulting and offensive language. It’s really upsetting. It just means that I play on single mode most of the time. It ruined trying to play with others for me. Please make it possible to just block group chat. It’s so unnecessary anyway. Also, most of the trade offers I accept from AI characters simply disappear or go to other AI players so fast. That’s really frustrating. Also, the robber just comes up too often. That’s annoying, but it shouldn’t come up during the first round when you’re trying to build knights. Lately the first round has also been going by way too fast and most players lose their cities. The last issue is that a robber will land on your spot and many times that number will roll 4 or 5 times in a row while the robber is on that exact number! All these things combined take the fun out of playing. Thanks!

1 game… 1 game every 24 hours?. So I’m new to Catan and I saw this free version of the game and they gave me one game I got to go through the tutorial and I got one game and said that I didn’t get another game for 24 hours no I understand if you guys want to sell maps or skins or any like cosmetic things but to only get one game every 24 hours is ridiculous and then on top of that you have another game which is the classic version it’s only five dollars so I could buy the classic version for five bucks or I could pay two dollars for 200 games now the price if you were to sell it like that is reasonable I suppose because I wouldn’t see myself needing more than 200 games if I’m still getting one game every day but as a new player I can’t believe that you would give me at least 10 or 20 games for free to get me into the game but only one game you give me one game to start out with and then you start asking for money like how much supposed to learn the game how much supposed to get into the game I’m very flabbergasted by this and if you expect people to actually play your game and possibly pay to play which I think is ridiculous against AI nonetheless I would really highly suggest you give a new player more than one game more than five games more than 10 games give somebody 1520 games so that they can actually practice and then learn how to play

How embarrassing. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME!!! This is an honest question. Will it ever work again? It hasn’t worked for the better part of a week now. If you don’t believe me, check out the Catan Universe Facebook page. People vent there. IF the reason why it won’t work is because they are truly making changes to fix the game they haven’t said one word to us. They just let the game not work and let their customers get so frustrated that they leave 500 word reviews. It is beyond ridiculous and shows how poorly of a company this is exactly. I truly feel embarrassed for the developers of this game. I wish I would have read the comments before purchasing this game. It appears as though these issues have been going on for quite some time and they cannot fix it. When I was playing for free and someone would drop out I figured they just didn’t like the way the game was going or something to that effect. No, it turns out the game is kicking people. I have been trying to play and I keep getting a message saying that I am not connecting to the server. Implying that the issue is on my end. Well that certainly is not the case as I have tried both WiFi and cellular data and I just switched to pc and getting the same message. I really am embarrassed for the developers that can’t seem to fix this issue that has been going on for at least a few years. Don’t believe me..check the comments. Lesson learned, I will check comments before downloading in the future.

Several bugs. I love Catan, and play this game almost daily. I’ve paid for the original game and mostly play the classic map with the computers. The trading aspect is almost entirely broken, where the computers skip my accepted trades or trade after doing other actions. I’ve also had problems with logging in, where resetting the password goes nowhere and times out without anything happening. I usually select play without log in and it gets to my profile no problem. The most recent glitch being an error message saying Client version too old, despite having the most recent update. I’ve paid for the base game twice on two different devices and have had the same problems all around. It’s extremely disappointing considering I may have to make a third account and pay for the game a third time if I want to continue playing, which I really don’t want to do. But since it won’t reset my password or let me into my account I don’t know what else to do. Definitely a lot of bugs that aren’t being addressed.

Unrealistic Gameplay (Horrible Algorithm). You will see reviews talking about how bad the algorithm for the dice is. This is to explain just how bad it is. In the multi player gameplay, the dice are not setup to be “random” but instead the algorithm is set up to make the game competitive. What I mean by this, is that even if you have 3 rookie players playing someone that is a master, the rookies have a really good shot at beating the master. This is because even if you have the best placement and somehow dodge the algorithm and get quite a few points ahead, it will notice you are ahead and start to roll sevens 2, 3, 4 times in a row until you have little to no cards. And it will continue to do this to you until the other players who are behind catch up in points. This is why you will see games with a ridiculously high number of sevens rolled every game. And this just simply does not happen in real life. So, my conclusion of this game is that it is not a strategy game, but a game of luck and overcoming the algorithm set up against you. Do not make any purchases and play the real board game if at all possible.

Just like the board game, but with frustrating AI. Super fun app, but a few things I’ve noticed: 1. The AI can make actions (buy settlements, play dev cards, etc.) at the start of a turn (before they roll) even though I cannot, so they have an advantage where they can drop to under 7 cards BEFORE a 7 is rolled. 2. Sometimes the AI will offer me a trade, and I will accept it, but instead of trading, they will offer me another, better, trade. So I accept that, but instead of it going through, they offer me yet another better trade. It seems like the game gets hung up where my accept button is actually denying the trade, so the AI is offering me better and better deals, but I’m never able to make the trade go through. They eventually trade 4-1 with the bank, and it is frustrating. 3. The UI is not intuitive at all. After I finished the first few games, I had to quit the entire app because I couldn’t figure out how to get back to the home screen without shutting down the entire game. After a while I found where you can click through several screens to get back to the main menu, but it is unnecessarily complicated. 4. Also, as others have said, the dice are clearly not random.

Good game, but could be a great game.. I get it that in order to provide a variety of gameplay, the numbers generated are not random. (For example, the dice roll the number shortly after the robber is placed on it.) I particularly don’t like it when a number (includes high probability numbers) doesn’t come up in the first 20 rolls, sometimes not once in a game! And funny thing, it is almost always my number for wood or brick, so you are way behind! - NOT Fun! And I don’t like when a ‘7’ is rolled right before I can go out causing me to give up a winning hand only to lose in the same round by an AI team getting its number come up TWICE by its turn and winning the game! That sure doesn’t feel random. there should be an option to play using a truly random number generator. When playing multiple AI opponents, the programming feels like I am playing four teams written by one programmer. 1) the initial placement of settlements seems like at least one team will block me despite poor placement for itself; and 2) one or more teams will make trades that don’t serve itself well - something no human would willingly do. (There is usually a team with only 3 or 4 points at the end!) Each team should be programmed to win on its own. - NO Alliances among AI teams! (Unless I can play two or more teams to match the AI.) Make a few programming changes and this could be a great game!

Sticking w/ Catan Classic until Stack Mode Improved. I tried this again after all the improvements since its release when I found its gameplay far too slow compared to the Catan Classic app. I really wanted to like it given the community potential w/ guilds, chat & ELO and the gameplay was much improved but its "Stack" mode is too limited for competitive play IMO. You can't activate "Stack" mode unless you invite a friend so it’s not even an option for your usual quick auto-match games & even if you do the implementation of "Stack" as explained by the Almanac is far worse to the simple but effective "Full Stack" & "Stack minus 5 random tiles" options from Catan Classic. What's even the point of tracking ELO in a game driven completely by RNG dice roles??? Probability is a central aspect of Catan and Cities & Knights has ample strategic depth but all of that is wasted when you can't normalize the dice rolls to some approximation of expected probabilities via decent "Stack" options. Me, my potential revenue & all the friends I recruit to play will be sticking w/ the Catan Classic app until Catan Universe supports "Stack" at least as well as that very old app :-/

Someone needs a statistics lesson. Funny, when I play this game is real life I hardly ever see the number seven rolled 27 times in a game that had only 80 turns. That’s every three turns for those doing the math…. Anyone who downloads this app will surely notice some seriously suspicious patterns when it comes to the dice. The above example is not an outlier. Seven is rolled entirely too often - sometimes several turns consecutively - and usually happens coincidentally when you’re leading a game by several points. Suddenly, you’ll find yourself going a dozen turns in a row without collecting anything and having all of your items taken away from the robber, because obviously they always put the robber on one of your positions. Just as an example, the last game I played I clearly had the strongest positions on the board. I was winning by several points. Out of the last 24 rolls, I counted the number eight was rolled 6 times in 8 turns alone; seven was also rolled 6 times. The numbers I needed in order to win (6, 5, 4, or 10) were never rolled. The developer might argue I’m just being a sore loser but those statistics are virtually impossible and it happens constantly in this game. I could go on and on with examples like these. I should note that there is another setting that allows you to change the probability of the dice but you will find it is just as goofy as the default setting. Not sure what the point is in making the game so obviously skewed in favor of the computer.

Mostly good, a few bugs. I play mostly against the AIs. The experience is good, but now and then it’s frustrating. The AIs seldom trade with the human player and very often only trade between themselves. Furthermore, usually they only trade on trades they initiate and very seldom on trades that the human player initiates. The human player can offer a trade that gets rejected and the AI that follows will make the same trade. You can select AI difficulty levels like rookie, veteran, or master. however, the master level seems to rely more on board, set up and dice rolls than strategic gameplay. The master AI often benefits from repeated rolls of seven and its resources, as well as being favored in trades that the human player also accepts. I wish the master AI displayed more strategic gameplay skills, rather than relying heavily on favorable dice outcomes, board setups, and trades. I play against the AI to learn ways to improve my game, but if it’s designed to make, the master always win through favorable outcomes instead of strategy, it’s frustrating, rather than educational

Frustrating. A lot of things with the ui are not intuitive. It took three of us some time to figure out how to build a road for example. We’re long term catan players. We just couldn’t figure out the ui. I’m not too mad that the base game costs money, but why make it a pain to buy? I have to jump through several hoops and buy gold (how do you earn it? No idea. Hubs and I played a game, he won, I came in second. But I had gold and he didn’t. I don’t even know how I got the gold.). And where in the app do you find the purchase game option? It’s buried in a weird spot! Also several bugs. The AI is EXCRUCIATINGLY slow. Why on earth would anyone want that? And the sliders to change their speed are locked. I thought buying the game might unlock them. Nope. Spent $5 for nothing. I’m spending soooo long waiting for a turn at a game I’m playing by myself! And there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do about it! It’s nice to have this game as an option during the pandemic, but ugh it’s frustrating as heck! Ps is there some reason the AIs won’t trade at all with me? Am I doing it wrong? I played a game with friends and we traded ok, but nothing I suggest gets responses from the AI.

Fun but has some fundamental flaws. I wanted to learn how to play this game before buying the real board game. For that purpose it did it’s job. However, there are some flaws in this game that make it not fun to play at all. There is definitely a problem with AI trading. I had games where I was middle of the pack and I kept only getting 1 or 2 resources ( because of odd dice rolling but I’ll get to that late) AI will not trade with you even if they have excess resources and even if you offer ridiculous abundance of every resources. You have to rely solely on the 4:1 trade ratio unless of course you get robbed which happens to me almost every single time I have 8 resources. Which brings me to my next point. The dice rolling is so odd in this game. Over the course of my last 4 games I payed closer attention and noticed that 2-3 numbers which have statically low chances of getting rolled get rolled significantly more by 3-4x the amount of other rolls ? Some times that happens in real life too but not every game? During the game I’m thinking okay it’s not a big deal I’ll just have to use the 4:1 trade. Nope, think again, most times I try to do that I just get robbed. So now I have no resources and I’m just in a perpetual state of AI not trading me and getting robbed. Now that I know how to play I will just play with friends, the way this AI is designed make it not fun to play.

Love it but , expansions need some upgrades. I love the visual representation of the game. It’s fun and addictive! Lots of great options for play. Good graphics. Some things take a bit to figure out because there no directions on them but if you know the. Base game it’s fairly easy to figure out. The base game works pretty well the only thing I would suggest is being able to kick out those with weak connections or have the kick timer at 30 seconds and a limit on how many times it can get activated. Additionally, when playing ( and I love that you can live play against others and also just vs AI ) but against AI two will steal from you even when you have less points than both of the Ai’s. I would also like to undo selections when discarding cards. Sometimes I hit the wrong cards and you can’t undo your selections. I would like to see the bugs with cities and knights fixed. I love that game but my settlements will disappear. Lately it will crash my city when the barbarians strike even though I have an active knight to cover it. Sometime it will roll. Resource I’m on but not give me the card. I also had one game where the 7 was rolled 28xs.. need a cap on that, it was like 3x any other number. I would also like to be able to pause or recall when my cards get stolen or another player does something that effects my hand so I can see what was lost. It will go so fast I don’t even know it’s gone. Overall I really love the games and the Ap! I play it all the time.

Glitchy and Slow. For the most part this an amazing game. However the reason I’ve given this 1 star is because the game is horrendously glitchy and loaded with bugs. There are some issues that need reprogramming as well. For example, the kicktimer is a whopping 2min. The game does not proceed until these 2 minutes have passed. This needs to be shortened to a maximum of 1min. Also each player is allotted 1min per turn, again this is much too long. I can understand that some turns take that long but there should be a separate “idle” timer for turns. If a player hasn’t clicked the screen or demonstrated some activity then his turn should be skipped after 30s. As far as bugs, sometimes you will load into a game and the screen is black showing only maxed out commodity cards, only way to fix this is to reboot the app. Other times after a 7 is rolled (the robber) the turns freeze. This shows only on some players screens but not others. For example, some people will be waiting for player 3 to go but on his screen he thinks it’s still player 2’s turn. Again this can only be fixed by exiting and rebooting the app. Overall great app and I still love playing it but it can be tremendously frustrating at times. The app need technical maintenance and bug fixes ASAP. Hope this helps.

Please add these features:. Love the game! Very well done! To any developer reading this, I would like to make a few requests: please add another expansion (I would pay another $5 for easily) that adds another ring of resource tiles around the basic game board. Just like the expansion for the board game in real life. That way the play can edit the basic game to have more players, victory points needed to win, more trading ports, and development cards into the pool. Also please add support for Co-Op for two players using the same device in a game. Possibly even up to 4 players on one device? I would also like the ability to play with only 1 other CP in singleplayer mode instead of requiring 3-4 players. There is also a bug that has happened quite often where the check mark does not work in trades with CP’s and forgoes the trade no matter if you click on the red X or the green check mark. The bug also does not allow you to properly re-negotiation the trade with CP’s. Last but not least I would like more edit features when generating the world map instead of only having a few preset “scenarios” to pick from with their own hidden list of possible resource hexes. Thank you for reading and I would love your feedback!

Too buggy and rough AI. It’s decently fun to play online but if you play against AI it feels rigged. The game actually includes a dice roll feature but, say you have a settlement on two 6’s. Those two 6’s will rarely get rolled then a robber will get put on it and like 5 in a row will be a 6. So, the bell curve is somewhat realistic by the end but the actual turns those numbers are rolled on is stacked against you. Clever way to cover for AI that can’t compete against a human naturally I guess. All that aside, its still pretty fun but its actually unplayable at this point. For about a week now, the app just won’t load. Originally, I would try to play and it would reach the main screens but after I clicked the play button it would just say I was out of suns every time (even though I wasn’t and I tried on 3 different days w/ no success). Online mode would just say “this feature is unavailable while offline” but my internet has been fine and all my other games function normally. I deleted and reinstalled but now it just perpetually loads on the sign in screen. I’ve tried logging in, registering a new account, and playing without an account but nothing will load. I’ve tried on wifi and LTE. I’ve tried using a VPN to mask my IP address. Nothing works. What’s the point of an app you can’t use?

Obviously rigged. When playing the AI (especially of “Master” difficulty) it just happens to be that the robber is insanely lucky to be on your best resource for the whole game. Try to buy 1,2,3 development cards to get a knight to move it? They will all just happen to be road buildings, monopolies, victory points. When you finally get a knight, within 2 more turns a 7 is guaranteed to be rolled so that the AI can put the robber right back on your resource. Then a 7 will not be rolled for probably 25 turns as long as you dont play another knight. But once you play a knight to move the robber off, its guaranteed to be back on in only a couple turns. Also if you have 8 resources there are very high odds of AI rolling 7. Im pretty sure catan just cant come up with an AI that is actually good enough to beat a skilled human so in order to make it “hard” they need to adjust the luck of the game. What is worse than this though is when your resources magically “disappear” from your hand. Several times when I get robbed by the AI i have seen the resource that the AI took from my hand disappear and then about 1 second later another resource just disappears from your hand too (no 7 rolled or knight played). No explanation for that. You could at least do a better job at hiding the fact that the game is rigged. 👎 Also when playing multiplayer 90% of the time a 7 is rolled in the first 2 turns and then not rolled again for a long time. Not saying its rigged but just very annoying.

Nice breadth of options but questionable design. Overall it’s not terrible for a free app but Catan Classic is far better for $5. My biggest issue here is that the dice rolls are very obviously not random. You might think this is just a sore loser but I’m serious, if you play cities and knights but expand victory points to 21 play repeatedly and you’ll agree within 3 games. I like the randomness of dice rolls so I’m hesitant to use the stacked deck of numbers but it’s a must for this app. One of the apps work arounds for not making this skewness in rolled numbers so obvious is by timing your numbers for when they’re under a robber so you won’t get resources but if you check the stats it’ll look closer to even in rolls than it really is. The bots also rob at random, I’ve been in last in a 6 person game with bots that are at 8-12 VPs while I’m still at 4 yet they’ll place the robber on a tile that only I’m on and steal from me. Alternatively, I’ve been a point away from winning ahead of the closest bot by 5 points and they’ll steal from a bot that is no where near winning. I wish they’d program the bots to just stealing from the current leader

Fun, but buggy. I love Catan, and the ability to play so many game modes and expansions in this app is fantastic. But the game bugs out a lot of the time. I tried to purchase the premium version, but it was too bugged to play, so i asked for a return. Sometimes the game keeps me from building some things, or spending certain resources. The 12hour token regen to be able to play a game makes sense for the free version, but when I have a token to use, i usually have to close the app a few times before it will actually let me start a game with it. Often times it just resets the timer when i open the app, which is frustrating. The Barbarian function in cities and knights imposes inconsistent city destruction rules - taking out defended cities and leaving undefended ones. Unlike the boardgame, the app allows NPCs to build settlements at owned intersections. And even the “balanced” dice mode leads to drastic uneven roll distributions. It would be nice to have a more accessible list of special rules for the special game modes. The cities and knights additional cards from dice rolls is also inconsistent. The additional rules are tough to find, and seem to be missing some observed mechanics.

Single Player is Infuriating. I really need this to better. I’ve literally played 100’s of single player games and my family is tired of hearing my apoplectic complaints about the AI rigging. It seems as if the only way the developers could find to make the AI “skillful” is to rig the dice rolling, card stealing and AI targeting. Don’t have a 5 but, AI does? Guarantee it will roll off the hook. Have eight cards? The robber will almost always roll. AI will trade with each other, even against their best interest, but almost never trade with you (half the time they’ll have resource monopoly and steal back what they traded). Seriously, I could go on and on about how this teaming and game advantages are bestowed on AI. What makes no sense though, is AI decision making which can be random and ridiculous at times. Is there no way to make AI smarter and then balance the randomization? It makes this game infuriating and uninteresting. I win games all of the time that I would probably lose to humans, and I lose inexplicably to miracle dice roll runs that defy probability. Uggghh!

Extremely Buggy. EDIT 1: some of the main concerns were addressed and - to some extent - corrected. Game breaking bugs in matches were reduced substantially, from about 90% of matches to a healthy 15% (yep, I kept an excel). The in-game interface is still the same, and in my humble opinion, not very intuitive. Regardless, the app is moving in the right direction. Adjusting stars from 1 to 3. REALLY looking forward to the update that was supposed to happen a few hours ago(?). ORIGINAL: The board game is amazing and the app has so much potential. However, it is ridiculously common for a game to get bugged. The problem with that is that it affects all other players, not just whoever got bugged. So the game hangs up thinking no one is having issues, meanwhile this one player is stalling for upwards of 20 mins (and the game cant figure out that something is wrong and just kick him). Kicktimers trigger for no reason when you’re in-game and everything else seems to be doing fine. Not much incentive to level up. Not much to buy in the shop (honestly if there were more items available, with better perks than a viking hat, I’d be throwing money at you guys). Elo visibility is really nice tho, kinda only thing that keeps me and my friends around. Just a tip, elo games tend to not show opponents’ elo in the pre-game screen so that it won’t affect in-game tactics (i.e. 3v1, etc). Really looking forward to an update and hopefully adjusting this rating. Thanks for your hard work!

Trade not working biased computer. This game is a bloody joke. It’s useless and I paid $20 for it with expansions and everything. I’m livid. The computer is completely bias. I’ll be in the lead by a large amount and it’ll work in the other character’s factor for rounds and rounds to keep me from gaining also it won’t allow me to make ANY trades especially if I’m winning . I hardly make any trades as it is. I learned about this “glitch” (really just used to give false difficulty) and I pick my settlements very carefully. I really want my money back. Lazy. I looked through and you simply don’t want to change these long standing issues with your AI apparently. I bought the other catan game here on the market and I highly recommend it to all who don’t want to waste their money and time on a biased broken game. Your AI even makes trades during times we cannot when it knows it’s in danger. It makes trades while it’s not even their turn. You give them thief when a resource that could be game changing is coming and even when I’m losing because I’m constantly being double teamed by computers they always choose me for thief. Seriously. It’s a pandemic. You have plenty of time to set this straight and be ethical on your coding.

BE CAREFUL! (Updated). Update1: Well, once we’ve recovered the option of resetting the password, I really enjoy the game. Will leave it at 4 stars right now. Expensive in app purchases. I bought one of the expansions because that’s the only way of playing against computer generated characters. If not you have to play against human opponents and some times that’s not convenient (wanting to be able to pause the game half way through, for example). Well, after a couple of days, the app asked me for my password. Of course, I didn’t remember and I still don’t remember. I use 1Password and Apple own password storing “app”, but I didn’t this time. Anyway I had seen that they had the option and assumed that I could always reset my password. WRONG!!! They have the option, but it doesn’t work. I wrote to their support email and they told me that the reset password option doesn’t work and there’s nothing they can do. So long story short I just lost $10 and they’re not willing to give me any solution. I find terrible that an app that asks you to pay for some of its “services” in 2018, doesn’t have a functioning option to reset your password or something similar. Yes, I know I should remember my password and that’s my bad, but every other app with the need of a password has a reset password option that actually works. That’s why they ask for your email and a bunch of other info.

Version too old - Update not available. Update: I posted this review and miraculously, there is suddenly an update. I am changing my 1 star review back to a 4 star review. Same as everyone else, Since late last week you cannot get in to the game. I upgraded IoS and that seems to be when the problem occurred. I sent a ticket to support, no confirmation it was received or is being resolved. Best time waster game ever, but worthless if you cannot use the app. You cannot play online, and you cannot play in the app, so therefore it is not a game at all, it is an annoyance. I tried reinstalling, and that did not resolve it either. If you love Catan, and have not updated your IoS, don’t update until these guys put out a bug fix for the problem. Otherwise you will be like me, trying over and over again hoping the problem is fixed, and being disappointed each time.

Awesome Game, Terrible Implementation. I’ve been playing this game for 6 months now. I loved the board game and I thought it would be fun to play and get better. I’ve played a couple online custom matches with friends but I mostly play offline. Initially when I started playing I thought it was great. Couple bugs (when clicking on the info button the messages often don’t fit the screen) but playable. After I paid the $5 to play unlimited the issues with the game started to appear: 1) The AI refuses to trade most games. In a full game with four people the total trades is less than five. 2) The dice roll after a seven is rolled is nearly guaranteed to be the number the robber was placed on. I’ve actually seen people use this as a strategy. 3) The dice distribution is so bad it’s disgusting. I just finished a game where a four was rolled more than an eight, nine, and ten. I don’t expect a perfect distribution, but there are far too many issues with this (as can be seen by all the other reviews). I even went into the discord group to make suggestions about changing the dice algorithm and was pointed to the “card stack” mode (I tried this already), which is somehow just as bad. The developers actually want this uneven distribution. It apparently allows for a more random experience, but it’s not like the actual game at all. Overall, I enjoyed the game for a couple weeks just enough to pay the $5 for it and now despise it so much I’m writing a critical review.

Really buggy and doesn’t follow the game physics right. There are a lot of issues with this game that would be really easy to fix if the developers cared to try. The board doesn’t set up right (the actual game rules specifying the numbers be put in a specific order) so you end up having areas with 3 6’s and 8’s bunched together which makes the game impossible for anyone who doesn’t get that spot. There also aren’t the proper ratio of development cards meaning there’s just as many monopoly cards as years of plenty as knights as road builders as whatever else which just makes the game extremely frustrating. As for bugs, the main ones I’ve noticed were one that covers up 2/3 of your screen so you can’t actually see the board and one that doesn’t let you place your starting pieces so it then auto places them in terrible spots. Otherwise the game is okay but a bit more frustrating than the real game since you can’t talk to the people face to face.

Great game and well integrated, though expansion tutorials are needed.. The game is a great adaptation of the classic strategy board game. However, the tutorial introduces you to many different expansion themed game modes. While these are great when explained (Seafarers for example), the rest have minimal to no tutorial. The gamemode involving upgrading your cities in terms of politics and science offers no explanation as to how to get the resources required to do that or what happens if you can’t defeat the pirates. Even worse, the Rivals of Catan tutorial prompt says “Let me show you the two person card game, Rivals of Catan.” Then, with no explanation, it just throws you into the middle of the game and offers no information as to how this (only slightly similar to the board game) version is even played. It just keeps expecting you to know what to do with no prompt like the prior tutorials had. As for everything else game related, the app is incredible. No bugs. No glitches. Very well integrated and very well explained. Easy to play with friends. All that is necessary is some explanation for the new game modes introduced before just throwing them into the players’ faces.

Fine but could be so much better. This does the job but it seems like they stopped short of putting much polish on the game. There are almost no audio/visual cues when something happens. Other players can place new buildings, etc and you won’t notice unless you’re paying extremely close attention to your screen the entire game. I also wonder why you have to choose from static game boards. Why can’t the tiles be completely randomized? The biggest problem though is the opponent AI. They really easy to beat even on Master level, they make nonsensical decisions regularly, and sometimes one of them will take half the game to score a single point. You can play online of course, but it’s nice to play with AI players who don’t take forever to take their turns. The Xbox 360 version of Catan had better AI if you can believe it. I have no idea why this game is about 2/3 of what it could be. It’s fine and we enjoy it, but it’s obvious there’s only so much replay ability here when it could’ve been almost infinite.

This isn’t a good game. (Editors note: I love the board game but I’m talking about the mobile game for this but I love the real life board game) I was only able to get one game in because for one: it doesn’t even let you build a settlement for me and only roads so I have no way to win the game. 2: the AI’s always get the advantage and everyone else has said things already for me. The dice are clearly not random and the dice always go bad on my end and good for the AI, and how you said your fixing the game? I don’t believe it. The game is obviously super glitchy and broken and don’t waste your time playing this game it’s honestly is a bad game and I have only played a bit of a game and everyone else has already been saying bad stuff for me. This game is honestly super buggy and glitchy and I already deleted it within a hour or so of first getting time of playing it. Honestly I can see why they have so many bad reviews and I agree with each one that says bad stuff about the game. And luckily for me somehow the game was free for me so yeah luckily it was and a good thing it was too Becuase this game is horrible

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Horrible. This app is the worst program I’ve ever encountered. Haven’t been able to finish a game yet, without either myself, the other players being booted, and the game cancelling. One time the game just decided there were no human players left so it started playing all our turns for us. The algorithm is disgusting only prioritising the numbers over who is actually winning on numbers. I would get a more fulfilling game if I played it in real life with my cat. At least then I could understand why the player left the game.

Excellent game :). I am running on iphone 8 plus and looks great, plays very well. The AI is more realistic in this one and the dice algorithms seem more realistic. Also the visuals are impressive and moving the board around while finicky is excellent. The one thing i cannot workout is how to share it with my family. I make the majority of app purchases in the family and we have sharing on, but i can’t get a second device to access what i have already bought as additional apps, other apps allow me to restore purchases i can’t see it in this one... can you please advise if i need to buy all packs and expansions on each device?

Multiplayer Issues. Such a great game however latest version is painfully glitchy in multiplayer games, particularly when connecting with other players, the error “player already in match” shows, when they aren’t. Makes the game unplayable and is seriously frustrating, especially when you’ve paid to play.

What happened...??!!. I have loved playing this game up until now when I can’t do so. It shuts down on first human move(if you’re lucky enough to get that far). My iPad is within the iOS required. I have downloaded to a different iPad and can no longer use it. It is the same with another family member. Please fix whatever is happening. Very frustrating and disappointing.

lovely game, but i hate how it penalises my ELO whenever the game bugs.. Really nice game to play and I’ve purchased a few expansions, however it is full of bugs. I’ve had 2-3 games crash midway where it states “rejoining game” and then “all players have left and the game is closed”. After which my own elo is penalised and deducted just because the game itself has crashed??? it had nothing to do with my wifi (it’s always full bars when this happens) and I did not click out of the game at all. please fix this because i feel it is very unfair.

Disappointing. Downloaded game hoping it’d be an improvement on the classic app but it’s sadly not. Big bugs in the game. Anytime I accept a trade with the AI it wouldn’t actually make the trade and the AI would offer me a new trade as if I never accepted. Seems like something based unit or functional testing would pick up. The interface can also be clunky and unintuitive. Feel like this game hasn’t been built well or with a proper plan. Graphics are the only improvement over the “classic” apps.

Connection issues. Catan as a game is most enjoyable. A number of issues reduces the enjoyment of playing the game through this app. One issue is with the dice. As soon as a robber is moved to a number, that number appears almost 80% of the time on the next throw. More prominently there are connection issues that appears in every game. If you don’t mind this frustration, it is an entertaining game.

Buggy off late. Been a big fan of this game and been playing for a while. Off late game has become so buggy At times it gets frozen, if the game is closed and reopened game does load back. This use to work clearly in the past. At times drops off the game even without three misses. Otherwise I always enjoy the game.

Keeps crashing. Used to play fine but would cut out every now and then . Now it just continually crashes before it even loads into a game . I’ve deleted and reinstalled multiple times, cleared space so there’s plenty of storage space and it still keeps crashing . Can’t find anywhere to get support help . Haven’t been able to play for months

Great game but not optimised for iPhone mini. The ui is too large for the iPhone 12 mini. Also sometimes text is clipped. Also I play against the ai and blue decided to build a settlement which broke my road, grey then had the longest road and went from 8->10 points and instantly won the game. Please improve the ai in this Regard as they’re on master difficulty.

Not able to play anymore after the latest update. I have waited 4 days for the latest update to be completed and migrated to the new server, was extremely excited to get to play again but I guess I could never because I have been stuck at “Hand shaking” and “Searching for Opponents” & “Map null properties not found” Is this the end?

Love the game, always play it but these login issues. Love the game, easy to play, cheap and got nice UI, but every time there is an update you have to restart login and half of the time, there is an issue. Really makes you reconsider your will to update. Apart from that, I would love a 6 players option but I think it would be a challenge !!

Glitch after glitch….. Don’t waste your money - it doesn’t work properly… it forced me to use their password and I cannot change it. It doesn’t remember my log in. When I use their password it logs me into the random game with the same ppl (that are not actually there) and to leave this game I have to loose karma… and after all of this it still doesn’t find ppl to play with - I think ppl abandoned this game. I don’t blame them. Zero stars if I could.

Crashes & Need to Unlock 6 players. The app has so much potential and we love playing the actual board game. However, i can’t understand why the app constantly crashes and why when you pay for the expansion it does not let you play up to 6 players like the board game. This is 2020 not 1920! Please fix before a competitor sees the opportunity and create something that actually works. It is not that hard really.

👍. What is not to love. Love my board games and with this pandemic, unable to catch up with friends for our monthly games night. Found this game and now can play online against my friends and others instead. The game is awesome

Stop deleting suns. So I jumped on to play a round today; got through the motions, get my game setup, my sun has renewed which is great. Then it pops up with a little message about getting 10 free suns; well that’s cool but I’ll do that later when I have time. So I click continue and it cancels my game and takes my sun and takes me back to the dashboard. I try to enter the game but there is no such game. Please stop taking the suns for no reason and leaving the player with nothing to play. I really love this game but I’m nearly ready to delete it because it’s just so infuriating.

Buggy but potential. I’d like my money back. The app is full of bugs, it just logged me out of my account in the middle of me playing a game, which means I’ll be booted from the game and I’ll be penalised, despite it being the app malfunctioning. After paying for the base game, have discovered the frequency of 7s rolling is so disproportionate it makes the game almost unplayable a lot of the time. It seems like a glitch or something but all players are experiencing it, it’s ridiculous. The styling and gameplay itself are quite good and has a lot of potential, but right now is too frustrating to keep trying to play, especially after having spent money on it. Also, like other online versions of Catan I’ve played - a lot of very aggressive people playing who get abusive in the chat almost instantly. Really unpleasant, but the app creators can’t be held responsible for that.

Server needs an update. Great game, just like the board. AI are a bit simple always plenty on people on to play. Problem is the servers though. Too often there are issues with connection dropping out or lags. Need to pay for the expansions, but it’s hell of a lot cheaper than the real board game.

Great game when it works, but buggy. My wife and I are both really enjoying this game, but every so often it goes through a period of bugginess. Often this means losing contact with the server (I think) which means that you might be in the middle of a game and then that game is lost. So two or three or four people‘s time is wasted. Unfortunately, with the new update to Catan Universe 2.01, you cannot even login any more. How is that possible? Surely this has been tested before release. Or is it amateur hour for the Catan Universe developers? We both play on iPads with the latest operating system as of November 2020.

Love the game, however…. Very glitchy, play on both phone and iPad. Often freezes for no reason on both devises. Timer for live games needs to be shorter than 90 seconds. Often won’t allow me to login to play for hours and then suddenly it will. Crashes and games end without warning. Needs a bit more testing before release.

Can’t login and no response from support. Hey team, love the game. Come leaps and bounds from where you were in feb. Frustrated because your entire forgot password mechanism is broken AND Support hasn’t gotten back to me. I can’t login, therefore I can’t access my purchases, my profile or the game. Need to fix this ASAP otherwise I’ll be contacting Apple. Will update my review once sorted, but it’ll be 4 stars max. Depending on how you develop and improve I’ll consider revising.

App is super buggy. Crashes or freezes on a player way too regularly. It’s still worth it because Catan is such a great game and being able to play people across different devices is good. The UX takes a bit of getting used to—non-intuitive and confusing. The computer AI isn’t very fun to play against as it’s easy to beat even on the hardest setting and makes ridiculous choices. The app isn’t cheap so I feel the developers needs to do a lot better to stabilise it as currently they should be pretty embarrassed to be honest

Great when it works. This app really struggles to function in iPhone. Currently, I’m perpetually prompted to update the app, even though the App Store states that I have the latest update. When it is “updated”, I am logged out every single time I open the app. More often than not, it crashes, which is only annoying because when I open the app, I need to log back into Catan Universe. It’s a shame because the game is great but the app is barely functional- and having paid for it is more frustrating.

This game is virtually unplayable since the update. I don’t make a habit of writing reviews but when an update is THIS BAD I have to. I started playing this online recently and spent my hard earned cash on the base game and expansions for something to do while in isolation. Was great until you decided to update and absolutely ruin the playing experience. I am losing ELO because the games freeze and there’s no option but to quit. Pleeeease revert back to the previous version and spent a bit more time fixing the glitches.

This app takes the fun out of Catan. I love playing catan and enjoy having the freedom to play it on my phone whenever I want. However, this app is absolutely terribly designed and makes it infuriating to play. You have to pay in order to get the full game and even then 3/4 of the time you are forced to play on the same beginner island. The developers have no common sense and even the most intuitive concepts such as displaying buttons which are used to perform actions in the game are done terribly. I have been to the official catan forum with issues on the game multiple times and the customer service and admins on the forum are terrible and offer very little advice. The advice that they do offer is often advice which instead of answering your question and satisfying you, makes you wonder what the hell was going through the developers minds when they created this. I recommend you download this app if you are fine playing the same map over and over again but do NOT spend any money of it as it is a poorly designed game and they do not do refunds.

Buggy and regularly down. This app would be great if it didn’t take up to 20 minutes to get it to connect to a multiplayer game. When it does it often gets stuck with the ai and you have to start again. It’s always down and for example the last two days it keeps saying “ClientVersionTooOld” when I try to log in. Same for my wife. Nothing online about this and rebooting etc has no effect. I’ve tried everything. Reinstalling the game has worked in the past with buggy issues but not this time. Soooo frustrating!

Freezes quite often. I love the game and have played with friends however it freezes midway through the game probably with 1/10 games. It’s really frustrating as sometimes you have been playing for a little while and the time has been wasted. Not awesome when we have paid for the upgrades. Please fix

Very disappointing. Unfortunately the developers rather than using good programming and logic for their pc based players use the rolls of dice to disadvantage the human player/s. If the programmers spent some time to program the game properly, they could overcome the requirement to have to do this. The developers claim they do not rig the rolls, however if the computer based players are that lucky, they should be buying lotto tickets! EVERY game I watch the dice rolls carefully, every game the non human players do not roll 7 while they have more than 7 cards, as soon as it comes to me rolling with 8 or more cards it happens more often than not. It should only happen one in six times! Last two games I played it happen 3 times then 4 times in a row, a mere 1in 316 or 1 in 1896 chance. This just makes the game rigged, frustrating and plain sad. It doesn’t even deserve the one star I have to give.

Game has severe issues. I think I speak for everyone when I say this game has gone downhill. We pay to have the game and can’t even access it 90% of the time. Trading with bots seems impossible as they skip the players and trade with other bots. So many glitches, bots are able to take MY resources and use them as their own. Most recent issue is nobody can even log on! App says “you need to update” but there is no update available. Server maintenance nights seems to do more damage than fixes. I used to love playing this game, now it’s impossible and frustrating

Unplayable. I was willing to look past the clunky ui. Tutorial seemed to work great. I got this to play with three other people. We couldn’t start a game with more than three people without buying. That is okay I’m happy to support devs, we all purchased the main game. Then it would not show me that it was my turn multiple times. It just had the previous player’s loading sign. If I exited and rejoined it would work for a time before happening again. Would avoid this product if you’re looking to play games with friends in isolation.

Can’t trade and can’t build ai is retarted. Won’t let me build settlements when I have over the amount necessary also the ai only trades when I can’t use what I get in return because it knows what I have also the concept of the sun being your energy bar is retarted because you have to wait over 24 hours to play a single player round where you have a 1% chance at winning and online matches you have 0.1% chance of winning don’t install this just get the board game

Technical Issues in multiplayer mode. Love the game! Especially the physical board, since we want to play at the comfort of our own home, we got this game. However, the game seems to have server issue 1) Input Syntax troubleshoot: while trying to invite friends 2) The game keeps on lagging and failed to reconnect at time. I assume its the server issue. It would be great if this was fixed :)

So much wrong. Hate to write this as it’s fun playing Catan online but... I’ve lost so many games because of the game bugging out. There’s so little indication of what to do I.e. I couldn’t activate knights because there was kick timer on another player but I didn’t know that until later so no knight activation and we all lose our cities. Just dumb. What do I care if there’s a kicktimer on another player it shouldn’t stop me from playing my turn. I lose ‘karma’ the rating system based on not quitting games, because the game says I’m offline when I’m at home on good wifi and I get kicked from games I’m winning. Bad karma score no one wants to play you. Everyone almost every game gets an offline message and the game thinks it’s worth putting up a warning in the middle screen that obscures the game every time this happens. And the message doesn’t go until you touch it so you’re constantly having to dismiss warning messages. And if it’s like my offline messages - incorrect - then it’s just a whole mess of wrong. A pity cause it could be so good.

Never Works. It’s an amazing game when it works. Frustratingly that is very rarely. There are also plenty of in game purchases which you just lose as the the game seems to not recognize user names or password resets when you log back in. The support team is slow and has never been able to provide a solution. Stick with the board game, don’t waste your time, money or frustration.

Love the game but….. Fell in love with the game again and after a few tutorials, I figured it was worth the buy. However as far as I can tell there is no perks to having paid for it at all. Still have to wait for the “suns” to load and I can’t play it offline. I can still play the seafarers expansion pack despite not buying it (and any other expansion pack) which is great but there’s no perk for buying the core game in the first place. Playing for free is exactly the same game play as if you pay for the core board game 🤷‍♂️ dunno how that works. So I would love it if having bought something, there's no limits on it like the free stuff. And that you can play it off line as I want to play while travelling. Cheers 👌

Okay... but could be great. I downloaded the free version to try before purchasing the full game. Unfortunately, the dice are loaded and do not function according to the usual statistical model. For example, when playing the computer, the computer player’s numbers will come up regularly- much more than would be expected - even numbers like 2 & 12 which have a low probability, or the 7 will come up multiple rolls in a row, or as soon as you have more that 8 resources. Also, computer players will seldom trade with you. It makes this far more a game of luck than strategy. Unfortunately, I won’t keep playing due to this. The idea of the game itself is great.

No where near as good as catan classic. I played this for a day and now im going to go back to playing catan classic. The board is hard to look at, you cant clearly see what everyone is doing and in order to see everything properly you have to slant the board or hide the players details which are important to see for strategy reasons. The trading is fiddly. Matching up with other players is so much harder if you want to play a specific map or game style.

Recent update has broken the app. Have been using this app on our iPad for a few months now and it was great with minimal glitches. The app recently underwent a substantial update which changed the look and feel of the interface and since then it hasn’t worked at all, shutting down regularly and not allowing you to progress in your game. I’ve also now tried downloading the app on mobile which didn’t work either. Not sure how else to get the feedback to the developers but something has gone very wrong with the recent update and it would be great if they could revert or fix it!

Too many bugs. Almost every game that I play, despite having adequate active knights, my cities are destroyed. Also, every single game I can’t trade about 75% of the time, because the AI characters glitch and trade offers last Millie seconds before there removed. Even if they stay long enough for me to trade, half of the time my trade is ignored and it goes to the next turn. My Wi-Fi is fine, I have updated the app, I’ve deleted and reinstalled, logged off and back in again. No dice. I’ve reached out to developers with recorded evidence and they haven’t responded. Maaan, this is so frustrating! I really love this game but if fixes aren’t made or devs continue ignoring my requests I’ll have to delete the game before I throw my iPad out the window!

Sooo frustrating. This game has so much potential but is driving me crazy-it is fun til it freezes or glitches which is nearly every game. Other players say it is the same for them so not a device issue. iPad, pc, same deal. Such a shame because I love playing it and it would be such a good game if it worked reliably. I see another reviewer has said you can’t see what is happening very well but I find the graphics fine. It just has lots of problems with working! Nearly every game a player has connectivity issues and is replaced by a bot and if the game continues for a period without freezing it will usually stop working near the end. When it’s frozen on me I’ve tried reloading and that works sometimes but most of the time it still doesn’t work and boots me out. Please work on stability or there’ll be no one left to play. developers, You have done a great job setting it up now I hope it can start to work reliably

Keeps crashing. Never had an issue with the older versions. Since updating to version 2.0 yesterday, the app keeps crashing at various stages. Usually whilst still in the opening menu / game setup stages, occasionally I have been able to start a game but then the crashing starts. Now can’t even start a new game. Older versions much better, new version crashes and graphics really annoying. iPhone 7 user.

Multiplayer Still Broken. Last update helped but there is still frequent disconnections and big game roll backs. 3/4 games don’t complete, especially with longer variants such as City and Nights and Seafarers. Developers - please fix as its a great game otherwise. Can I also suggest that you give the player the option to continue the game with all AI, if everyone disconnects? Full game costs quite a lot of money, so it’s pretty unacceptable the current unplayability.

Great!. But wish it would have a score summary. Sometimes the game ends and you can’t work out what they did to score the required points. There is a totals screen but that just shows road length, knight attacks and total points. So you have to add up cities and special harbour points or which ever yourself. 😖

LOVE this game, but app glitches. Absolutely love love love this game and app version, but it’s SO frustrating when it glitches! For example, in cities and knights, not letting me purchase a city upgrade when I have the available commodities! This is especially upsetting because i spent money to buy the expansion! Not cool, please fix! ❤️

Bad Connection. Really getting sick of being kicked from games because the app fails to stay connected throughout the game. I have 5G internet and none of my other devices/games have issues, but this one constantly drops connection, kicks me from the game for running out of time, and then gives me a lower rating for not completing games. Love the single player options, but so far multiplayer is barely playable.

Bot trades. So frustrating when you play against the bots, they never accept your trades, they always favour trades with the other bot, trade offers disappear before you can accept them and when you do press the green tick to accept them they still don’t accept your trade. Bots will always trade with each other before they trade with you and then will win the game. Too frustrating, the game needs to be fixed.

Iffy. Love the game. When it does work, it plays great. Have had small connection issues in the past but still about to play and enjoy. Have hit a wall now with the app now not allowing me to log back in and notifying me ‘your app is out of date’, but according to the App Store there are bo new updated available 🤷🏼‍♀️

So much potential but just a big disappointment. This could be such a great game but it’s just utterly frustrating. The dice are rigged and the AI players gang up against you. I can tell from the start of a game which numbers will be rolled most frequently by the tiles the AI players have chosen. Sometimes it can be a common number like 6 or 8 and sometimes it will be a 4 or an 11, but it will always be whatever the AI players choose and I haven’t. Or my number will be rolled but only after the robber has been placed on my tile - then it will roll 7 times in a row. It’s so predictable. I give up - what a waste of time!

Amazing Game Must have app. This is a perfect replacement for on the go catan, I have hundreds of hours played into the game with my partner and will continue to play. Download asap! Hope the developers. Keep updating the game and bringing more things to the app

Should have read all the recent bad reviews before buying …. Title says it all. Bugs and faulty AI and to top it off, can’t get ANY response whatsoever (other than the auto response) from the “Support” team on a password reset request - not sure who they are supporting, because it’s definitely not me and I have been waiting for weeks ... Stay away from this until they get their act together. But given the feedback - I suspect that this is unlikely to ever occur.

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Horrible dice system. The dice rolling is not completely randomized. It gives advantage to the player who is ranked lower and is in the bad position. Player with high ranks or in the good position doesn’t get cards due to the limitation of the program.

Non-functioning garbage. 3 weeks after updating, online play is still impossible. DO NOT PAY A CENT with this game.

Do not purchase. The game platform/server is messed up. I haven’t been able to compete a game In months. It will kick you out or time you out regularly. Was cool and fun now it’s garbage, a waste of money.

Do NOT pay for this app. Although the initial app had its bugs, at least it worked. This app has not worked in two months! They claim to be working on it, but progress is nowhere to be seen. FIX THIS! DO BETTER Catan! At least don’t let anyone else PAY for this app until it works!

Pls go back. Ever since your migration the playing experience has been beyond terrible. You need to fix it or revert back to old server structure.

Cannot play multiplayer. New version has broken multiplayer. All of us are on the new version, we can invite one another to a game, but the game won’t start. Please fix this asap

Servers dead. They took everyone’s money then killed off the server. Been 2 months now no Catan.

Game keeps shutting me down. Game keeps shutting me down on iPad. It’s even worse with “les Marins” extension. Really frustrating after I’ve paid to get it. I have IOS 12.5.5

Horrible customer service. Developers migrated to a new server and since then, game is unplayable. Instead of rolling back to the old server until issues are fixed, they continue to attempt to fix the new server. Down for over a month now, time for refunds. Do not buy this app!

Infinite freeze. Paid for the full game. Was playing multiplayer. Tried to build a road and it crashed. Every time i open the app it tries to rejoin that game but cant and gets stuck on the loading screen. Have closed/deleted etc... the app but nothing fixes it. save your money

Server migration broke the game. Impossible to play after the server migration, can’t even load up a game without people randomly getting kicked off.

Good bye Catan. It’s so sad because this could be an amazing game, but with the countless constant glitches and crashes and freezes , it makes it impossible to play. Why publish a game with so many problems is beyond me! This was my fav game, after installing their update it wouldn’t let me play. They said they were going to fix it and over 1 month went by and still nothing ! I’m majorly disappointed with these game creators! I believe they need to take serious look at their entire game and the fact that they are probably losing hundreds of fans. Not impressed guys, I made it so far and bought expansions only for the game to stop working. I would say fix your game and make it free of like all the hundreds of glitches before you ever put it on the market.

DOES NOT WORK. Give my money back. Since I’ve paid for this app it hasn’t worked at all and it’s been months. These guys are scammers. Apple needs to intervene, having a broken app on their store like this is disgusting

Terrible. It’s 3 dollars for 200 gold and you have to buy the base game to play the other ones

Lost my purchases. Lost access to my account when they switched servers. 2 weeks later and they still can’t fix it, I’m not repurchasing the game plus all the add ons.

Used to be great. Game used to be an amazing free game now I can’t login or create a new account and everytime I play as a guest it crashes. Used to be great with these crashes, 0/10.

Game broken do not buy. Game was working well and was my favourite. But they switched their servers on 1 November which they said would require a shut down of two days, and now no one can play in online games. Recommend buying a different version of the game.

Migration of new server. This app was working perfectly fine until the decided to switch servers. The app quite literally does not work anymore, and has not for the last month and a half. I love this game and loved the app, but what is going on now is frankly unacceptable. I have never seen an app unusable for this amount of time.

From bad to worse. This game was bad but at least you could play it, since the update its absolutely impossible to play. I want my money back

Has potential. This game is fun but incredibly frustrating. For example, it is fun to strategize and build. But it is frustrating when other players take a long time to roll, or when the Barbarian ship rushes to the end with a bunch of 7’s rolled and you can’t buy a Knight, or when the game crashes, or when a player leaves the game without quitting and you just have to wait for them to time out, or you have to wait multiple turns for any of your numbers to roll, etc.

Poor user experience. Super glitchy and slow. Not worth the $$$

Crashes on iPad & doesn’t work on browser. Catan 2.0 is a disaster for the following reasons: - shows what card was stolen from other players - app crashes on iPhone and iPad - can’t see dev cards being played by other played - load time on browser is long - Game is filled with unnecessary UI changes eg emoji and unnecessary camera zooming The essence of the main catan game is gone with the new update. Save your money and do not spend it on this app.

Tutorials won’t load.... ... they just hang at the loading screen. And you have to do the tutorials before you can play properly. So i can really play unfortunately. I see others are having this problem as well. Is this being looked at?

You’ve seen the other reviews. -Can’t load multiplayer -have to keep resetting password -keeps logging me out Overall have not been able to play a single game since the update. Would avoid paying for it like I did 🤦

App closes when i place my first settlement. Game keeps crashing constently, kicks me out of games im close to winning....this doesn’t make sense, fix it or refund me please

12 hour reloading time. Regeneration after 12 hours I won’t let me play another game. The times up and just won’t let me activate anther round of the game. Kinda feeling ticked.

New version sucks. Ever since they moved to a new server I am unable to login to my paid account. I keep trying to play at least with the free version which 9 out 10 times do does not start or freezes after 1 min of playing. Very disappointing:(

Expansion that I paid for is glitchy. When playing city and Knights it always stops letting me play my commodity cards half through the game. Example I’ll flip over 1 coin but then when I get more it won’t flip over. Very frustrating for something that was payed for.

What have they done!!!. It is outrageous how you can scrap such a nice game. First, they change servers. Since then, it simply doesn’t work anymore. Game jams, and when you are furtunate enough to finally joining a game, it blocks and you can’t play in time so timer expires. You get error messages that pops up in your face when joining a game, etc… but even before, graphics are ordinary, you have very limited number of scenarios and they force you to pay for each of them. It just sad that Asobrain has stop exploiting its online game. I am now back to the board game.

Can’t play since the server migration. Ever since they migrated the server, I have not been able to play a single game (I think this happened in October, it’s now December and nothing has changed). Do not waste your money by buying different game expansions, you won’t be able to play them. It’s too bad since I played this game quite a bit before it broke! ):

Dice Rolls are not good. This game is great but the random generator for dice rolls seems off

DO NOT DOWNLOAD!. I bought the expansions bundle for $20 now I cant play at all. Kicks me every time I try to play join a game, I click the checkmark icon and immediately the game crashes every time now.

App not working after upgrade. Hi Catan Team, request you to please refund the money. App doesn’t work as earlier. Zero rating for this app. Regards, Siva

New update doesn’t work. The new update deleted my purchases and I have to sign in every time I use the app. The game glitches if the screen goes dark and I reopen it. Before the update the app worked great.

Pire app ever. Rien ne fonctionne! Aucun retour de la compagnie et aucun remboursement

Game is unplayable!. This app is a joke... It’s impossible to play. You lose connection all the time for no reason. Haven’t been able to finish a single game Tutorial is busted... just loads. Even the steam app does the same not just mobile app...

Bad Performance. Server always down. All kinds of trouble starting a game. Brutal!

Fuyez pendant qu’il est encore temps. bien apprécié le jeu quand il fonctionnait correctement, on a même payé pour avoir accès en tout temps. depuis le changement de serveur rien a faire on ne peut plus jouer. on est même pas informé de rien, j’ai été patiente mais là ça commence à faire long (on parle en mois maintenant non en jours) et surtout n’avoir aucune information des développeurs sur ce qui se passe ou le temps que ça va prendre, alors que l’on a payé c’est un manque de respect total.

Update is not good. Does not let us play in a friends match. Continues to tell us that one of us is ‘in a match’ when we are on the main screen. The app before the update was smoother.

Nothing works any more. The game is so fun, and the app was great until this recent upgrade or whatever it is. Now nothing works.

Horrible UI/UX. I’ve played the regular Catan app for years now and never really had any complaints about it. The online gameplay didn’t work well but I didn’t use it so it never bugged me. Catan Universe is a dramatic departure from the look and feel of the original app (called Classic now, I believe). I’m sure it took a lot of time to make these nice 3D objects, but the gameplay has taken a serious step backwards with regards to usability. What once took 1 or 2 taps now takes 6 or 8, and information that I care about is not easily viewable. It feels like a designer went nuts and made things way too complicated. The UI for trading is horrible. It seems I can’t offer multiple of one card to somebody, and the buttons clog up the screen unnecessarily. The overall game board screen is cluttered with icons and buttons and it doesn’t help me. The menu for building has been removed in favour of hovering game pieces that appear when you can afford them. Dragging them to their new location on the board is an awkward experience, and it just doesn’t feel like I’m purchasing these things. Buying development cards has been hidden away until you can afford it too. It appears as a transparent icon over the game board when you can purchase, adding to an already cluttered screen. This is just to name a few bizarre UI/UX decisions, but I’m thankful I have the original Catan Classic app to play — Catan Universe is an app/game I would never decide to play.

Great game when it works. Doesn’t work since migration to new servers. Sad to see this app so mismanaged

Undo the surver change. Man don’t know who is in charge over there but how can you have so many issues on a simple server change. Guessing you didn’t even test b4 you swapped. Sad sad sad maybe if lucky 1 out of 10 game actually goes the full coarse. Game is 100% unplayable

Migration. since migration to new server, multiplayer doesn’t work. Various error messages pop up.

They stole my money. Garbage app. Garbage app. Only steal your money. Don’t play or buy!!!

Tutorials don’t load. When I try to do the seafarers or cities & knights tutorials I just get stuck on a losing screen that never loads. The rest of the game is fun but I’d love to do the tutorial (which the game recommends) before jumping into the game mode which I have to play to unlock single player.

App does not work. DO NOT BUY.. They tried changing their servers and absolutely destroyed their app. No reason to purchase app at the moment, server issues have been going on for well over a month.

Poor controls and visuals. Love the board game but this version both looks and plays like a mobile game from a decade ago. Super disappointing.

Game does not work. Their servers are all messed up right now, unusable app

Catan universe HORRIBLE. I used to love this game until they switched to a new server. Now the game is unplayable. It lags, you lose connection all time time and it takes forever to even find a multiplayer game. HORRIBLE

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Game breaking bugs. The game itself is fantastic, but only buy this if you’re ok playing against computers to pass the time. The online experience is unacceptably buggy. Every other match I play ends with either players stalling for half an hour (!!!) and the game can’t figure out that something is wrong, or I get disconnected for no reason. My network will be running just fine, and the game will give me a notice that my “kicktimer” has started WHILE I’M STILL IN THE GAME WATCHING EVERYTHING HAPPEN. I keep coming back to this app, hoping that one day, the next update will finally fix the bugs because the game is honestly so much fun. But I’ve been playing for 2 months now and every match is the same, “flip a coin: you either get to play the game, or the game breaks halfway through and you automatically lose.” Unacceptable in its current state. Edit: raised to two stars because the devs are pretty active in the comments and clearly trying to fix things. It’s nice to see devs that care.

Would love it if it worked reliably.. The tutorial has been enjoyable so far. It really REALLY made me want to play the basic/original game with others so I can get the swing of things before tackling expansions, etc... However, I have only once had success finishing a full game on “free mode” with other players. I have been completely logged out multiple times when attempting to initiate a game; or the app searches and finds 3 players but won’t ever start that game; or a game starts (I get all excited) then the timer gets stuck on one player who doesn’t/maybe can’t make a move, which I try to wait out but 10 minutes roll by with nothing but timer twirls. When I leave the frozen game, I assume my game “Karma” takes a hit. Multiple attempts have ended with no actual game play. If the game worked as intended, it would be a five star game and most likely one I would be happy to purchase; but (as it is now) it is mostly just frustrating to my Sunday Funday.

Great Game for the Pandemic!. I’ve been playing this game nonstop with a few of my family members for the past week or so and it’s been fantastic! We put on a group call in the background and it allows us to connect, play a game together and just have a good time even though we’re all in different places for quarantine. There are a few bugs and figuring out the initial login can take a couple minutes, but let’s be honest, most of us have the time to figure that out right now. Also this team has been working around the clock to handle a sudden and huge influx of people, and for the most part they’ve done an amazing job, so thanks to that team! This app has been a lifesaver and just a lot of fun.

Love Catan but App could be so much better.. I am a super-fan of Catan. I own the non-virtual original plus 6 expansions and have played the app a ton. I completely support the app but it does have several issues that I’ve suffered through for the sake of my Catan fix. I hope my critique will help the developers. First of all, the game play interface looks nice enough but could be way more intuitive. I like to play on my iPad and I think moving the character boxes to the sides or corners, rather than at the top, would fit everything on the screen better. Having an animation for resource distribution would help players keep track of who’s getting what. The display that shows what actions are being taken should be more prominent. Spending commodities in CaK needs to be more accessible, it’s difficult to scroll down and tap the tiny box to improve your city. Lots of other little things that only made sense after I had played a lot. The main fault of the app are the bugs! I have been kicked out of many games (super frustrating when you’re winning) because the game just gets stuck randomly. I learned a trick to force close the app and get back into the game without “quitting” but sometimes I have to do that multiple times a game just to finish. Again, huge fan of anything Catan. I hope my feedback helps.

Password reset does not work and Customer Service does not respond. I switched phones recently so I needed to re login but it wasn’t recognizing my password. When I tried to reset, the app did not move past the terms and services agreement. Ok, so I created a new account. All was fine and I even upgraded to an expansion pack, which I paid for. Then this week I was logged out of my new account. Not sure why that happened, but when I tried to reset my password, same issue. Even locked me out after a few tries. I wasn’t going to create a new account this time because I have the expansion so I emailed customer support. That was three days ago and I haven’t heard back. Stand behind your product. EDIT: they got back to me this morning and informed me that it is a known bug and that I can reset my password on my desktop. That resolved my issue, but that is a critical bug that seems to have been around for a while. They should prioritize it. Upgraded to 2 stars.

Needs improvement and lots of feedback. Me and my friends bought this to play each other during quarantine. Half of the time commands randomly won’t work, people get randomly booted from the game, or the dice function stops working and the game goes into limbo. Want my money back and so do my friends. If you get booted from the game there’s no way to re enter which happens often as well. The app is not intuitive. Clicking “I am not ready” to indicate that you are ready is the first example. There’s no text guide to tell people what they need to do next / options are. If you play with people who don’t know to click certain play pieces they won’t know they can. It also bugs out regularly. My friends and I all bought this to try to have game nights virtually. We haven’t had one successful game because it kicks one of us out at one point (no option to jump back into the game). Sometimes the buttons don’t work.

Great Game, but the game is stacked. I love playing Catan, so I was excited for the app. The UI is good, but a few weird bugs (iPhone Xs). Main gripe is that there is no way those dice are random. Sometimes it’s for good; like I played a game where Stone was extremely rare (2, 12, and 5) and as a result, we had twice as many 5s rolled than any other number, which made the game possible. On the other side, it knows the moment you go over 7 cards and you’ll roll a 7, but I rarely ever roll a 7 under any other situation. Additionally, it always feels like the AI players know exactly what’s in your hand at all times. I’ve played about 20 rounds here now and the trends I thought were just a funny coincidence have moved way past coincidence into “the developers are intentionally screwing with the players” territory

Loaded dice?. Started a cities and knights game against the AI. 90% of the time the rookie AIs will set up their property next to the sixes or eights. This game had one rookie AI set up his city on a 12 and two 4s. His settlement was on another 4. First dice roll, I accurately predicted it to be “4”. Second roll I accurately predicted to be 4. Third roll was 7 but do you know what the 4th roll was? Yeah, that’s right, another 4. We rolled 4 several more times until I got inventor and took a four away from the AIs city. Then it was rolled a lot less. This not uncommon. I’ve seen 12 get favored a lot when the AI has property setup on it. I’ve seen 11 get favored a lot. This is especially true when the AI sets up on double numbers like in the example game I gave. I did win that game, but it doesn’t make it okay to have us playing with loaded dice that favors the AI. I have both Aztec and Special scenarios unlocked, but I am reluctant to buy the other expansions if this game is set up to cheat me.

A few suggestions. Settlers of Catan has always been a favorite of mine and I’ve been playing the game on this app for a long time now but it’s definitely missing a couple things. I’ve been wondering if or when we’ll ever see some more “special scenarios” added to the game. I would also love to see a “continue game” button added into the single player menu so that one doesn’t have to hunt through all the scenarios to find the game they were playing. I’ve also noticed, and I’m sure other players have too, that the dice rolls hardly seem random. I’ve played entire games where a number never gets rolled at all or where one number with a low probability like a 3 or 11 is rolled 7 or 8 times in a row. I do really enjoy playing this game and I’m looking forward to the 5-6 player expansions.

Not terrible but needs some improvements for a paid app. Definitely needs some improvements. Especially since it’s paid for and not free. But overall fills the cities and knights kick I need since idk a lot of people that play and we’re in the middle of a pandemic anyway. But it can be very buggy and glitchy at times with gameplay. And also sometimes boots me out of the app completely requiring login again. Tough playing people in matches cause it sometimes is hard to find matches, and then when you do a lot of times people quit and it doesn’t give you the option to continue the game, it boots you if the other players quit. Should allow them to turn into the computer and finish. But like I said fills the need to play so overall I enjoy it

Needs an Update: Great Game, Good App, Too Much Glitching. I have only just begun playing Catan in 2021, and found this app sometime in August. I had little issues playing it initially, but now 5 months later the glitching seems incessant. Today I got kicked out of games several times, and at one point in another game of Cities and Knights it made me seem like an AI player even though I was playing and still could play. I have no real complaints about dice— although sometimes I feel it is unfair. My main issue is all this glitching that has happened just in the past week. Will update the review once it is fixed. Edit: OK. I cannot stand it right now. Started a game and within minutes the game ends — wouldn’t let me trade as well. Not worth it, especially after the money I put in to buy all the games. Please do an update and fix this (maybe no tournaments!!)

Not great. Game works most of the time but when it doesn’t you get punished for it. When playing against AI the game can lock up leaving you to force quit and restart. 2/3 games online involve waiting 2 minutes for one of the players to get booted for inactivity, then playing against an AI instead and waiting for it to lock up. Placing game pieces is weird and for some reason by the time you figure out how to drop it where you want it, the game decides you took too long and sends the piece back for you to try again. Then there’s the in app purchases. Buy Catan gold so you can buy scrolls or the full game and it’s expansions. In order to buy the expansions you have to buy the full game, but you already play the game for free, so pay for nothing to unlock the ability to pay for expansions. Or you can buy scrolls to play them temporarily because that sounds worth my money.

This app is infested with bugs. I love Catan and was so excited to find a way to play with others. However...The only way it seems to work is in the custom match mode in which my husband and I can play together with a couple of AIs. This mode still is rife with bugs and 3/10 times it crashes. The other match options where I can play with others seldom works: I click to enter a match and it searches for opponents endlessly until I give up and move on. Then, coming back to the app it informs me that I was booted from a match. So frustrating. If I do make it into a match, which is pretty rare, someone inevitably defects (or maybe is also experiencing bugs) and the game freezes forcing me to quit the match. This app needs so much, I really don’t understand how something that just barely works like this is in existence. Please developers, please fix your app. It is atrocious.

Stick with the free version. AI will have cards they didn’t get through rolls in order to progress through the game. In my most recent game the AI started with 1 rock, and after the first roll they rolled a number that didn’t get them any cards yet they traded me two rocks so that they could build a road to cut me off. Also, The dice rolling algorithm is bugged or set to favor the AI, I always thought I was just being bitter but there’s a statistical component to the original board game, 7 statistically rolls most, followed by 6 & 8 and so on so forth. So when you’re on every number but 4 and 10 and those are the only two rolling it’s not much of a matter of bitterness, it’s just a poorly coded game. So just play for free that way you can just enjoy feeling like you’re playing some variant of the real game without getting mad at the moneys wasting.

No customer service and many glitches. So I tried to find a customer service to talk to about my issues with this game, I downloaded it and it can be glitchy, it’ll freeze on the computer player trying to trade or on someone moving the robber if someone leaves the game. Also I’ve been randomly booted several times or had to quit because of these glitches why reflects badly on the ELO. Then I got my friends and family to download and buy the app, only we can’t play together! In the two games I’ve been randomly put on the “kicktimer” WHILE I’m rolling the dice and interacting with the game. I try to reset per usual but it removed me from the game entirely which is frustrating and disappointing all at once. I wished to get in contact with the game owners to see if they’re working on this but there is literally no customer service for the app so here’s my bad review on how stupid glitchy this game can be.

Enjoyable until you see how rigged it is. I would give this game a 5 star if they fixed the dice. This game was wonderfully made with one critical flaw. The Dice are rigged. They are not thrown based on probability, but rather it adjusts to consistently land for the people with less victory points in order for it to be a close finish. In fact, I have screenshots from my last online game, which I quit mid-way through, that show I was thrown the dice 18 times while BOTH my competitors had it 23 times each, including 1 of them having numbers 3 and 4 both hit more than the 8. If you are up in the game, it will find somewhat to not give you resources for multiple turns in a row (put robber on you or call the other peoples numbers) in order to make it a close race. Does not reward early strategy as it should. I may not play again.

Lots of glitches, leveling, and dumb game dynamics. 1. There are numerous glitches including: a brief highlight of a resource card you will be dealt, constant freezes on the seafarers expansion map Oceania, and weird grey floaters that appear when two AI’s trade over your trade offer. 2. Just like the previous rendition of the Catan app, there is serious “leveling,” where a statistically impossible amount of 7’s are rolled and all the AI’s dump all their resource cards into development cards to knight steal you when you’re winning. It’s so ridiculous that even when you don’t have anymore cards, the AI will still choose to put the robber on your space. 3. There is a dumb rule where you can only play 1 game a day, at the expenditure of a “sun.” Of course there is a pay wall to buy more “suns.” 🙄 It’s like the game dynamics want me to move on and play something else, cuz that’s what I’m going to do.

Currently a Disaster. I really wanted to like this game even payed $5 for it so I could play unlimited games. The app is currently broken and has been for over a month now. I have to manually log in each time I open the app, which if I’m not connected to the Internet, (when I actually want to play when traveling) I can’t play the game. For the last month, I haven’t been able to log in anyways, so I can’t actually play the game, and neither can anyone else. Random dice is not a thing. A 7 will roll immediately once you have too many cards, the app will randomly close and not save progress, and offline play requires you have an internet connection to check if you have purchased the game, since the developers want your money. I’m very disappointed and wish I never had purchased this in the first place. I hope this review guides your decision making and steers you elsewhere.

ONLY FUN IF YOU PLAY ONLINE!!!!. This game is fun only if you play online against real opponents. When playing the computer, even at the easiest setting, it is extremely difficult. It crazy how lopsided the rolls are in favor of the computer. Almost to the point of not even playing it anymore. The second you have over 7 cards, the next roll will always be a 7. I will be winning with just one point to go, and the game will keep you there by giving the rolls to the computer. I’ve had double the score my opponents score multiple times and they’ll come back and win in 2 turns. It also auto refuses all trades you offer. And if you accept an offer from the computer, it won’t give it to you. It’s even worse with the expansions. This is all on the rookie setting too. Very disappointing! The game does have a decent online option which makes it nice to play with friends and family.

Great Game but AI has gotten ridiculous. I love Catan and don’t get to play the board game often, so this is app is great to let me play and practice various strategies. I’ve had this app for a few years and I was good at first. Rookie AIs actually played like rookies, masters like masters, etc. But now the game is simply rigged against you. Rookies play like masters because the die rolls are rigged against you. Whatever numbers the AIs have are the numbers that will be rolled. It’s useless to try to select 5, 6, 8, or 9 tiles because if the AIs have 2, 3, 11 or 12, that will be every single roll. I just played a 5 player game with AIs and we rolled a 2 FIVE TIMES and 5 and 9 only ONE time each. This happens every single time I play, which is a shame because I used to really like playing against AIs for practice and just to build. I think the devs really ought to address this issue. It’s no fun when the “challenge” of playing against AIs is simply that the game won’t give you any resources and let them win. I’ve also noticed recently that sometimes when the robber is rolled, the AI will steal from another AI on a tile that isn’t connected to me at all, but one of my own resources will vanish?? This is definitely a bug and I hope it will be fixed as well.

Love the game, hate the glitches. I have been kicked out or forced to leave game after game because of glitches that freeze them. One out of every two games played would result in a match I could not finish. About a month ago, it seemed these kinks had mostly been worked out. Only one out of every seven or eight games ended because of freezes. It was great! However, the newest update has now made it worse than ever. I join a game, it brings me to the point where setup is processing and then the entire app crashes. I reset the app an it attempts to join me back with the game, but I never make it to the board. It crashes over and over, reducing my stars and stats to rubble. As someone who paid for the game and Seafarers expansion, I am really disappointed. I love the game itself and the graphics are solid. It would be nice if I could actually play it again.

Full of bugs...but will be great when fixed. I have played many free multiplayer games on the fixed setup. About half of these have ended unsatisfactorily when one of the many bugs in the game hangs it up. I would love to become a paying customer and move on to new options but that will have to wait until enough of the bugs are fixed such that games can consistently finish without hanging up. At that point, I will happily become a paying customer. In the mean time I will play free games to monitor the hoped-for progress on the bug fixing. Update. Here is a tidbit that is essential to be able to use this app to play multiplayer, online games while the publisher is (hopefully) fixing the severe bugs that affect this usage: If the game hangs up or, to say it another way, gets stuck, then you can swipe the app closed and then restart it. Usually, you will be given an opportunity to rejoin the game and when you do, it will likely be unstuck and making progress. Good luck!

Worse than COVID?. Ok, maybe not, but this is the most maddening app I’ve ever used. Three friends and I have all paid up so we can play Cities & Knights /Seafarers (the best board game ever) during the pandemic. The game randomly gets stuck for 1 or 2 players at some point, with no way to proceed and finish games. We’ve finished maybe 20% of the games we’ve started, so frustrating. It works fine playing against AI players, but not real people friends. This was supposed to be the one bright/fun spot of the pandemic, but the developers have robbed us even of that. I won’t be trying again, but please fix the game so others can enjoy it. Also it takes a ridiculous amount of CPU/memory resources to play on the web interface, shocking for a board game. My brand new 16” MacBook Pro has to run the fans at full bore with only Chrome and this game running just to keep up. I think they need to re-code this entire game from the ground up, but I highly doubt they will fix any of this, which is sad.

An Interface Mess. First, I want to say that I have been playing for a while and do enjoy the game when it works. Once you figure it out, it’s pretty good. The problem is the interface. There are some extremely weird design decisions in this app. For example, there is a chat, but it’s inside of the game settings. Another is that the countdown for when your round is up is really hard to see. The icons for game stats are just a complete nightmare. This is a bad interface for an awesome game. Also, the game randomly decides you ‘aren’t connected’ and boots you even though the rest of the players see you and see your moves. When you start in Knights and Cities, you are about 50% likely to lose your city in the first round because the game rules don’t appear to be fully intact. Whereas in the physical game the tiles are in an order, this appears to completely randomize tile placement. There’s a lot to work on.

Rigged. Love the board game and was excited when I found this. But this game is rigged. How is it that no matter how many cards the AI has they never roll a 7 but the minute you fill up with all the cards you need you get a seven or they do. Also, never fails they seem to select the same numbers and then there is always one or two number that constantly roll. I mean seriously what is the chance of rolling the same two numbers over and over and over again. I mean 5 - 6 times in a row. That is impossible but not in this game. I tried to land on the same numbers as the AI but then there is always that one number you don’t have or they always roll a 7 and block your numbers and steal from you! Sooo very frustrating! After reading some of the reviews it appears I am not the only one experiencing this. Too bad the developers don’t do anything to fix it.

Good game, bad transactions.. Ok, I do enjoy playing this game even though it is a bit annoying to learn the game. Gameplay, good, whenever the AI doesn’t absolutely screw you over. Unfortunately, you can’t play online other than ‘free games’ and to unlock the base game and expansions, you need gold. How do you get gold? You get gold by completing one of the tutorials (100) and to get more, you must buy it. You need 500 gold to unlock the base game, and the only thing you can customize without the base game is which AI is likely going to screw you over. After the tutorial, you must pay an additional $4 just to unlock base game. Then there’s the games that are much more fun, which likely cost even more. I’d say you are looking at $15-20 down the drain just to be able to play more than one thing over and over. Is it worth it? You decide.

Great game to play and I’m almost addicted to the App. I love playing Catan and this app is incredible for allowing people to play like this online. I wanted to play with more friends and be able to play the different scenarios so I made the $15 purchase to buy the expansion packs. It was worth it in my opinion if you’re planning on playing a lot and have friends who will play with you. Gave it a 3 star rating because they don’t quite have the bugs figured out for such an expensive app: 1. The dice rolls 7 more than anything else, last night I played a game and the dice stats for 7 were 39, twice as much as the second leading number 6. This makes the game very annoying to play. 2. The servers can’t handle the load so it kicks players out often during the game. At this point you have to shut off the app and restarting it within a 110 second count down. This means that in the case that this happened multiple times during a game, which it often does, a player who spent the whole time strategizing to win can get replaced by an AI. Which defeats the whole purpose of playing. 3. For the amount they charge for the expansion packs, they don’t even have the expansion for more than 4 players. That would make this game a lot more fun!

Laughably bad dice generator. In case you haven’t played Catan before, this is a dice based game. Everything hinges on you getting lucky with the dice rolls to get the materials you need to build and expand. This is so critical to the game that each tile you can access has a number with an embedded probability indicator - 7 most probable, 6/8 second most, etc… So you’d think that of all the things to get right, given the importance to the game mechanics and player strategy, the game developer would implement a high quality random die generator. You’d be wrong. If you are going to play this game, build on the resources you care about. Ignore the numbers because they have no relation to the actual number distributions you will experience. It’s no longer a game of “can I control the strongest points on the map.” It’s “did I bet on 3s when the RNG decides to roll more of them than 8s”. Would get a refund if I could.

DO NOT PURCHASE. This is my third review being written. It’s so interesting that my reviews have been lost in the ether somewhere. Totally broken game. Most games against humans you play 2v1. Hate speech in chats are common. Random number generator is clearly broken. Good luck playing against the computer. Worst of all is their supposed ELO system, where you can win a game and LOSE rating but if someone quits the game they can gain in their rating. I have a ton of screenshots of people cheating and several of hate speech in the chat. But there’s no way to report anyone. Several attempts have been made to customer service with only computer generated responses. This game has been around for 6 years and it just continues to rob people of their money for a crap knockoff. I have proof they charged me twice and there’s apparently nothing anyone can do on top of all the other obvious examples of poor programming.

New additions are extremely buggy & completely unnecessary. I love the game of Catan! I was introduced to the board game several years ago, which in my opinion might be the greatest board game I’ve ever played. During the pandemic I downloaded the app, and have enjoyed the ongoing rivalry with my wife. Recently however, there have been some additions to the game that are completely unnecessary. Examples include: Having the AI characters make faces while they are waiting, upset, or excited about a score they made. I don’t really care. With that said, most of the bugs I’ve experienced with this game have been in the last few months. I find it more disengaging when I’m booted out of the app, and have to relaunch the app. So to the developers of this app, not every addition is good addition. Especially when these things create more problems, causing the app to be a headache to use.

TERRIBLE SERVERS. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! The only reason why Catan has OK ratings is because it was the first Catan game published but there are too many problems to count and honestly a waste of money and time. I have had this app for the past 7/8 months with 0 updates to fix any issues or bugs and it’s ridiculous. First, the game crashes every 5 to 10 minutes, which kicks you out of your game and decreases your Elo to play any quality games. Second every time you LAGGGG OUT you have to sign back in to your account in the game and after 10 times or 20 times you’ll realize you spend more time logging in then actually playing the game. As well as 80% of the time it won’t reconnect you so you ended up wasting more time…… Third to even play the game with people online you have to pay extra, so really, you’re only paying to play with AI unless you want to spend an extra $15 on top of already purchasing the app which goes to show they are the money hungry. Lastly, because the game hasn’t been updated in so long and hasn’t been fixed, there are hackers that can take unlimited resources break the rules of the game as well as can kick you out of the game according to how they feel. In conclusion without any updates or fixes, this app is just a waste of time and a waste of money.

Can’t even play a single game.. Downloaded the app and registered, hoping to play a mobile version of one of my favorite board games. Tried to start a single-player game and the app just does nothing. It was going to be my first game. I tapped the “start game” button and the button turned gray. At first I thought it was taking time to load. A few moments turned into 10 minutes of nothing happening. I eventually abandoned trying that. I then tried multiplayer. I was matched with other players right away and the game started. The first person placed their settlement, and it was my turn. I could not place a settlement. I had gone through the tutorial so I tried tapping on the spot I wanted to place it, I tried the drag-and-drop option, nothing worked. The most basic part of the game was not working. I will try again later, but if this is not fixed I am deleting this app and never downloading again.

Gameplay is abismal. I am a huge Catan fan, but the app is just so poor. All apps can have issues from time to time but this app is almost constantly having issues that drastically interfere with gameplay. Mostly it seems to be server issues where you either can’t join online games or get disconnected during games. After use with several devices, on cellular data, numerous WiFi connections, it’s an issue on the game’s end. Their typical suggestion is “sign out of your account and sign back in” but unfortunately that works very infrequently as well, not to mention the issues that can occur with signing back into your account. Bottom line is Catan is a popular game both in physical version and electronically. For an app that popular, one you need to pay for, and for a board game app that really doesn’t require that much in terms of real time gameplay between multiple players, I find this quality extremely disappointing.

Could be so much better!. I love Catan, I could play endlessly! However, I have several complaints about this app. The dice rolls are very unrealistic—when have you ever rolled so many 7’s in real life? And since when do you go an entire game without rolling a 5. And how is 12 getting rolled more than 6? The turn timer when deciding where to place your first settlements could be a little more generous. It’s tough to think through placement that quick and if you miss one timer, you’re kicked out. I’ve leveled up to level 22 which earns me orient pieces, but trying to use them is a waste of time. First of all, the graphics for the orient hex’s are terrible, but worse than that… the game glitches when trying to place initial settlements if I have orient game pieces or orient hex’s, so they can’t even be used. Yesterday while playing, it had me marked down as an ai player (with the robot icon next to my name)! I could do about half of the turn actions, but the game just skipped/glitched the other actions. Also, the game log is a cool feature… I like to look back to see who robbed me so I can return the favor 😉 But trying to go through it is difficult. As the game play is continuing in the background, the game log jumps around as new actions are added, making it very difficult to trace through what has happened.

Better, but still buggy. I love Catan, and this app is the most fully-built our version of Catan out there. That being said, it has all kinds of weird UI quirks (e.g. click “I’m not ready” to set yourself to ready to play) and it frequently crashes. I just played a nearly 2 hour game of Greater Catan, and I was literally about to win on my next turn when the app crashed and wouldn’t reload. Of course I couldn’t get back in before the stupid kick timer ran out. The kick timer is especially annoying when you are playing a custom game with friends; no I don’t want your dumb AI to replace my friend who is trying to get back in because your app crashed. Yes, it’s gotten a little better with the updates (oh, did I mention you can’t play custom games with friends if everyone’s not on the same version?) 5 stars for the game but 2 stars for the app’s quirks and bugs. Round down to 3 stars total.

Hope you change the developer to other. Log in process looks like really random. Mine works fine but one of my family members can’t login. Tried tons of times to change password. Even we typed the new password inly one time, but it shows ‘typed wrong three times and blocked’ We spent an hour to figure out but still can’t login. I was exciting to play with all my family members together during this pandemic, but… I really exhausted just to do logging in. Now I’m facing all family members look disappointed. === Dear owner of the Catan app, I’m seriously recommend you to switch the company who developed the app to other company. As I know, the Catan Universe first appeared in 2017, but the app never ever worked smoothly so far. And still have the same issue during the most important process - on boarding process. I bet you are really losing tons of potential gamers because of the very poor/non-reliable on-boarding process. No improvement for 4 years? Seriously? I just bought/played Monopoly app. The on-boarding process was smooth and even register/login doesn’t require at all to play with friends. Hope you learn something from it. I love the Catan game itself but I would avoid any apps that the developer created. Really bad company. === Also, regarding the dice roll. Yes, as many people said, I also see it’s actually not random. The dices are controlled by a certain rule.

Glitches with the new version. Here are a few glitches we discovered last night when a group played the new app version on iOS. Initially one player could not log in even with resetting password. During the game, the dice roll statistics were not formatted properly. Only dice rolls 2-6 were displayed on the screen with 7-12 not visible. There we’re also I believe connectivity issues. Each one of us experienced a situation where we could not pass the dice or take an action. Only after cycling through the different menus, did the game allow the player to pass the dice. One item of preference, we wish there was a way to turn off the “water droplet feature” that appears around a settlement/city when you place it on the board. Overall though we still really enjoy Catan Universe!

NOTHING, is random!!. Guys I played FIFA enough to know when the game has script. 90% of games dice gets stuck on on number. And another 80% of the games who ever is on that number is also the person that roles most 7’s. I played a game where 7 was riled 23 Times!! I rolled 3 of them... like the game gives you absolute no chance to fight back! Don’t get me wrong I Ben on receiving end as well, I won games in less then 10 min because only my numbers were getting rolled! It’s never randomized NEVER!!! I am playing a game today where my opponent pulls 7 knights out of the deck where each time I get it, it’s road building or VP or some other Card that’s useless to my situation because the person that’s pulling knights is also the person that’s rolling all 7’s!! My suggestion keep playing the free game till who ever is in charge of programming this annoying thing learn how to implement a true randomized dice and dev cards!

Good game, some glitches. Overall it’s a decent game and I don’t mind some of the minor glitches. I typically only want to play the AI just to kill time so I’m not doing multi player a lot. My only issues at this point are: Trade: For some games, if you accept an AI trade request, it doesn’t complete the transaction and instead the trade request is rejected. Makes the game a bit more challenging. Airplane mode: I was on a flight today and pulled out the app to play the versions (Base, seafarers, CaK) I had purchased, but I couldn’t. The game didn’t seem to recognize that I had purchased the games and only allowed me to access the tutorial. This is extremely frustrating since I PAID real money to play these games (mostly against the AI). Probably wouldn’t have spent the money had I known that. I mostly play games on flights!

I wish it was better... );. It’s got all the things that I could have wished for in the “portable version”, yet, it is so buggy. I was excited when I saw my favorite board game had an app. Reading other reviews I saw that there wasa version called Classic. I never played that, only Universe but I am dissapointed. It crashes so often and even at the littlest of things. I can never get through setup without one of the opponents disconnecting. And maybe it’s just me, but I feel as if numbers like 2 and 12 are rolled TOO frequently and numbers like 6 and 8 aren’t rolled often enough. I can tell you that when I play in real life, if it is a 3-player game, usually it’s 4-player and one of those “players” is a team of two because everyone is excited to play, the number 2 and 12 are rolled twice maybe thrice times in the entire game and 8 and 6 are pretty much every other or every third roll. Well, in this game that seems to be the opposite case. I just hope they can fix these important issues and get rid of whatever Karma and Elo system they have because it makes no sense to me... If I get disconnected from a game, or I have to leave because it glitches, I shouldn’t be punished. I’m keeping the app in hopes of a near in the future update, so fngers crossed. But I am not playing it again until there is an update.

Great free version of this game!!. This is a fantastic free version of catan. You can literally play a game of catan, out of a lot of expansion packs included, virtually with three computer AI players. You can set time limits, victory point goals, and more. It’s great!! The only thing that is tough is that the completely free version limits you to only one game per 12 hours, and if you’re like me and obsessed with playing more, then you need to pay to buy a specific game pack and get unlimited plays for that specific purchase. I just bought the simple basic game and literally played eight times in a row. There are a few glitches sometimes (sometimes a piece freezes as if you’re constantly holding it even if you aren’t) but for a free game that has done really well in other areas, you can’t get that upset. The remedy is to also close out of the game, and simply reopen it by clicking “continue game” instead of opening a new one. If you just love catan and want to play alone for hours sometimes, this is the app for you. I haven’t tried multiplayer yet, but the option is there to use it.

Great app..... While there are some glitches that need to be addressed, this app is a great model of the actual board game. Some people are complaining about the rules, but seem to not have truly ever read the rules. If you are playing the AI on any game/app it basically faults to protecting itself. If you are a true fan of the game this will only make you a better player when you sit to play the actual board game. I own the actual Settlers, Seafarers, Cities and Knights, Traders and Barbarians, Explorers and Pirates games with all extensions costing well over $400. I own both portable version with expansions on my tablet and phone, there was no second purchases necessary for the updated version which seems to be a complaint from others. My friends and I enjoy these apps very much. No I’m not a developer, just a good fan of the game. Great app! Keep improving!

Good, but needs improvement. I’m new to the game so I’m not sure how well this app reflects the board game. My comments: 1. Tutorial is good for new players. 2. One free game per 12 hours is lame. I liked the game though so I paid for the basic game expansion. 3. There is a bug on the iPad app that closes the app if/when your iPad screen locks. It’s very frustrating because it logs you out of the app and you have to log back in and go through a few steps to reopen the game you were playing. 4. I have yet to play against others. Every time I try to it just says searching for opponents for 5-10 minutes. I’m guessing there’s just not enough people on the app. 5. The AI players are decent to play against. For the most part they feel like playing against real people. There’s just two things I don’t like. First, outside of the tutorial games I have yet to win. I ALWAYS come in second. It seems weird. Second, they are CONSTANTLY proposing trades. Like 2-4 trade proposals each every turn. It’s annoying. And then they NEVER accept my trade proposals, no matter what I propose they never accept. It makes the game play feel rigged against the human. Overall it’s a very good app, but I think there are a number of bugs that need to be worked out.

Game crashes all of the time. If you play the real board game do not expect this platform to play the same. The game developers can not even create a somewhat realistic dice throw. I do realize real dice throws can not be duplicated but this platform for the dice are unreal. The biggest issue with the platform is that you get kicked out of the system a lot and even more so when you are in the lead. This is not an internet connection, browser or device issue because I have the same result on any device or browser and I have fastest internet available. "Cable Connection" The Catan Universe Support is of no help as they just say the developers are working on issues or they do not know what is wrong. There is standing/levels of ability established as you win games and with the system broken your scores / standing just keeps dropping as you get kicked out of the game where you can not compete and then lose. Good luck trying to have a real outcome until the company decides to hire real game developers. About two years ago they were sending emails/notifications to players if they would like to develop the system. Well, who ever they hired needs to be fired. I can image that the original designer of the board game "Krause Teuber" has no idea how bad the online platform works. He created a great board game that plays wonderful in reality but his developers are incompetent.

WAY too long to refill the little sun coin. I really liked playing this and was spending a lot of time on it and even promoting it to others telling them they should play, however after only a few games it is making me wait 12 HOURS before playing the app again. It’s trying to make you buy coins but its just going to end up in me deleting the app because it takes an ungodly amount of time to refill. What’s the point? I’m not speeding money to buy something that isn’t worth it and if your goal is to get people to play your app then you’re failing. By telling your audience we CANT play the game for basically an entire day your keeping people from playing your app. And so with that being said, this is a dumb idea to not allow people to play more than a certain number of times. I’m not waiting that long and most others won’t either!

Unwarranted unfairness. First off all I must admit that the user interface and the digital adaptation of this game is quite impressive. I’d prefer playing this to the physical board game. BUT after a while it becomes a frustrating experience mainly because of the rigged artificial intelligence. I recall being in several games were when I was in a good situation, the dice would uncharacteristically roll against my favor. Note this happened many many times to be a mistaken impression. Whenever I have more than 7 cards the dice would roll a 7 almost every other time. Whenever I leave out a number like 5 or 9, the dice would roll that ungodly number of times. Its trying to make it too hard too win, which increase stickiness temporary but in longer term it would lead to user frustration and drop offs. Like I quit this game. I play for good time and a fair challenge not to get frustrated.

Stuck in “rejoin” for days now. This app has so many bugs. It kicks you out of multiplayer games often. Now it is not letting me play at all. It kicked me out of a game earlier and now every time I try to login to play it spins with “rejoining” at top of the screen and won’t let me do anything. I’ve tried deleting the app, and downloading again. Also tried hard reset of iPad. Nada. Still spins rejoining. I love playing Catan so do often and i have buggy stuff happen in about 33% of my games. Sometimes it doesn’t recognize cards I have. Especially if I steal them from rolling a 7. Also has made me give up settlements in nights and cities game when ship hits even when I had an active night. Happens way too often. Very frustrating. I emailed the help link once and the response was arrogant and rude. I needed help logging in. The guy said “if I helped everyone I’d be doing this all day” as if I was bothering him. I’m disappointed in this app.

Great UI, Disconnect issues need to be solved. I have been playing catan on this app for a couple of years. In this version ( 2.0.1 ) there are major disconnect issues. Trying to climb the Elo leaderboards and I’ll be fine for a couple of games. Then for whatever reason (phone call, dead battery, etc) I may have to disconnect from a game I understand being penalized for that. After that though, the app just persists that disconnect. I tried restarting the app. But it seems to be that for a random amount of games after the first disconnect, you will be disconnected from those subsequent games. Error says “you were kicked due to being disconnected from the internet for too long” and it drops your elo. WiFi is good. All is good. Always happens for multiple games after the initial disconnect. Fix this in app issue and you will get five stars. Browser and steam client are both great.

A mediocre app IF you’ve got money to throw. Love the gameplay and layout, no glitches as such but the free version is way too limited. Unless you’re willing to pay for it this app only offers one standard layout of the map which you can play on. Unlike the board game where the tiles and numbers are random each time, even the paid version offers a list of predefined maps rather than a random selection of tiles - essentially missing out on the most thrilling aspect of the board game. Furthermore, if you’re planning on playing the game online with your friends look elsewhere. Wayyy too many server issues and you can’t create/join a lobby and play online with other players (I.e If you’re short a player or two you have the option to fill that spot with a bot). In the case where you do have a full lobby you’re limited to a board and version of the game which each member in your party has unlocked/bought. Finally, who cares about the six or seven versions of catan this game has to offer? Cities and knights? Seafarers?? Give me catan online and I’ll pay for the 6 player and other extensions! The developers seriously need to work on the in-game currency dynamics and find a better way of getting users to pay for the game. If not then just make it a paid app without ruining the user experience?

Fun game. This is a fun game to play against friends long distance or just by yourself against the computer. It has a few glitches but most times it’s fixable by swiping the game off and then touching it to turn back on with iPad or iPhone. Just don’t exit and/ or log off and you can rejoin game. The game board is very true to life and can be zoomed in and tilted. To tilt just swipe with two fingers on each side of screen up or down. Took me a little to figure that out. It also gives levels to work towards that gives you the ability to change your avatar or added features. Overall definitely recommend this game but just be patient with newer players that take longer times or you can set the adjustable timer that can speed the turns up.

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Language English
Price Free
Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 2.3.5
Play Store com.usm.catanuniverse
Compatibility iOS 12.0 or later

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The application Catan Universe was published in the category Games on 15 November 2017, Wednesday and was developed by USM [Developer ID: 330111789]. This program file size is 773.43 MB. This app has been rated by 25,851 users and has a rating of 3.9 out of 5. Catan Universe - Games app posted on 02 October 2023, Monday current version is 2.3.5 and works well on iOS 12.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.usm.catanuniverse. Languages supported by the app:

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Catan Universe Game Customer Service, Editor Notes:

- The A.I. will now always wait for the answer to a trade request in single player games before continuing - Elo scores will now be displayed faster and more reliable after matches - Custom match lobbies improved - Various smaller tweaks and optimizations

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