6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Catan. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Catan.
Release Date: 01/01/2022
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Placeables, Score Board and Tokens
Dorf Romantik is a cooperative world-building game where you strategically place tiles to create countryside regions to score points in a variety of ways. Play is solitaire-like, but rather than matching suits you're matching landscape. It stands out...
Release Date: 01/01/2011
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards, Dice, Figures, Placeables and Tokens
Takenoko is a world-building game where you cultivate a bamboo garden for a Japanese Emperor. You play by placing Garden tiles, adding Irrigation pieces and making Bamboo stacks grow. It's a competitive gardening game where you battle other gardeners as...
Release Date: 27/06/2007
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: Bag, Figures, Placeables and Tokens
Carcassonne is a strategy game where you lay tiles to create a medieval landscape of farms, rivers and cities. Each new tile must match the roads, rivers, farms and cities of those around it. As you place it you can claim one of these elements that...
Release Date: 01/01/2011
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board, Dice, Placeables, Score Board and Tokens
Kingdom Builder is a strategy world-building game where you create a kingdom by placing settlers' houses. You work to build settlements with positions and orientations that meet three specific criteria chosen at the start. This, along with special...
Release Date: 01/01/2020
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: Cards, Figures and Tokens
Dragomino is a matching and collecting tile game similar to Kingdomino but tuned for really young players. You take turns to pick and add a domino Land card to your growing grid, and earn dragon eggs. It works for youngsters with...
Release Date: 01/01/2011
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: Board, Dice, Figures and Tokens
Catan Junior is a collecting game where you build a pirate kingdom around the Isles of Catan. You play by rolling dice, collecting resources and buying Lair pieces. It is a tactical race to gather and trade to get what you need and beat your opponents...
9 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Catan. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Catan.
Release Date: 01/03/2017
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: Figures and Placeables
Kingdomino is a kingdom-building game where you place domino tiles to match terrain types and score points. As you play, you build a territory in a grid that requires careful consideration of where dominoes are placed to maximise points. What makes this...
Release Date: 01/01/2003, updated in 2020
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board, Cards and Placeables
Santorini is a strategy game where you place buildings on a Greek island in an effort to get your character to the top. This creates a chess-like three-dimensional competitive puzzle that changes as each player adds pieces to the village. It's unusual...
Release Date: 01/01/1997
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards
Bohnanza is a trading card game where you plant and harvest bean cards to earn coins. The twist is that you can't reorder the cards in your hand and because you have to plant the first card in your hand each go, trading isn't just about what you swap...
Release Date: 01/01/2010
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards, Figures, Placeables and Tokens
Forbidden Island is a cooperative collecting game where you try to survive on a sinking island long enough to collect four treasures. You play by moving across the Island, stopping Island tiles from sinking, whilst collecting enough cards to rescue the...
Release Date: 01/01/2009, updated in 2019
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Tokens
Jaipur is a two-player collecting and trading card game where you compete to become the wealthiest merchant in an Indian market. You collect and swap cards to build combinations so that you can trade them for valuable commodities. It is about trading at...
Release Date: 01/01/2022
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Tokens
Verdant is a puzzle card game where you create cosy interiors with houseplants and other objects. You take turns choosing plants and rooms from the middle and place them in your growing grid of rooms. The novelty is that to grow plants you need to match...
Release Date: 01/01/2020
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board, Figures, Placeables, Score Board and Tokens
Meeple Land is a world-building game where you race to create the most successful theme park. You place Ride and Concession tiles to attract visitors to your park, but you are also racing other players to collect people from the buses, so can't take too...
Release Date: 01/01/2012
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Tokens
Machi Koro is a world-building game where you create a thriving city full of different buildings and landmarks. You play by rolling dice, collecting money and buying buildings with unique powers. It is a game of building big and building quickly and...
Release Date: 01/01/1935
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Monopoly is a strategy traversal game where you buy and develop land to make money from property. As you roll and move around the board you build up a portfolio of streets that you can charge rent on. It's a classic game that's stood the test of time...
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