It's important to get new beginnings. And even widely recognized, and quite popular, modern boardgaming classics can benefit from colonizing new territories where familiarity is not as great. The developers at United Soft Media realized this and bravely brought Settlers of Catan to the digital realms this month.
Here's word on Catan: Creator's Edition:
The Legendary Struggle For Catan Continues!
Play the board game classic and its expansions "Seafarers" and "Cities & Knights" and create your own empire on Catan including individual maps and scenarios.
Found settlements, build roads and prove your trading skills to become Lord of Catan. With the right strategy and a bit of luck, you’ll defeat worthy competitors, such as the combative knight Sean, the shifty pirate Jean, or the cunning merchant Nassir.
Let the new, detailed graphics take you to an utterly realistic Catan, or choose the classic mode for a genuine board game feeling. Let your imagination run free and create your own Catan world including new scenarios and maps.
Find out if you really are a secret colonist; confront your rivals and become Lord of Catan!
Regrettably there's no built-in online multiplayer and this newly minted version of the game has a few issues not entirely ironed out yet, but the development team is known to be working on fixing the problems reported.
This new edition can be bought directly from USM in either digital download or CD version, but it has been made available on Steam recently also.
