Official 'Settlers of Catan' Coming to iPhone
posted by Eli Hodapp on July 23rd, 2009 2:14 PM EDT in Board, News, Strategy, Upcoming Games, iPhone games, iPod touch games
Move over Kolonists [App Store], the Catan Community & News section of the official web site just announced that Settlers of Catan is on its way to the App Store:
This summer the official version of the board game classic "The Settlers of Catan" will be released for Apple's iPhone. The game is being developed by Exozet Games in collaboration with Catan designer Klaus Teuber, and published by United Soft Media. More informations and screenshots will follow soon!
Now, doing a little research on Exozet Games lead me to Catan – The First Island on the developer's web site. All we know right now is what's in the news post from the official site. It could be a port of the mobile version, or something new entirely. Keep an eye on Touch Arcade for developments.
Here's hoping for some spiffy graphics, multiplayer and dice!
Best new I've heard in a while!
Awesome news. Love this game on XBLA.
You can play the mobile version for yourself on mplayit.com: http://mplayit.com/#Catan
Wow, does that suck. I hope they lose the dorky characters and clunky menus.
Dorky characters never get removed from the games they appear in.
Please oh please be a port of the XBLA version
I really hope that it's not pricey – Kolonists is $2 at the moment, and Settledown is 3, so if they mark it at $5, it's going to have some competition to deal with.
Still, I'm hoping it's good – I love the game, and would love a mobile version to be able to play anywhere.
Exozet Games is also credited for the Nintendo DS version.
Boooring…
how about Metal Gear Solid 1 4 iPhone?
Woohoo!! I can't think of a game I'd rather want on the iPhone.
I hope this includes the expansions. Cities and Knights is so much better.
DS version has following maps with Seafarers expansion. Doesn't have Cities and Knights but hot dang has everything else.
- Ore For wool
- Harbormaster 11 pts
- Heading for New Shores
- Drought
- Treasure Islands 14 pts "Seafarers" (think this one might be Gold)
- Four Islands 13 pts
- Four Islands II
- Fog Islands
- Oceania I
- Oceania II
- The Oases
- Through the Desert I (love this one played it tons of times)
- Through the Desert II
- Greater Catan I (this map takes a moon rotation to complete think it's 18 pts)
- Greater Catan II
So only thing we can hope for is spruced up graphics over the DS version and local wifi/ bluetooth or heck even realtime internet play but that might be dreaming. Online games take about 10 to 15 mins whereas games in real life take 45 to 60 mins due to setup and shuffling of resources, etc.
Ten to fifteen minutes?? Huh?? Oftentimes my friend's turns take that long, haha. Catan takes 2-2.5 hours, cities and knights around 3, in my experience.
Played over 300 games with sea3D and yea I'd say they'd averaged about 15 mins. Obviously if your playing with low rated players who might not know what they're doing they yea game could take 30 mins or more I suppose. Cities and Knights is around 3hrs yea. Catan in real life usually is 60 to 90 mins in my gaming groups.
Channeling Maury Ballstein from Zoolander… "That's what I'm talking about!"
hell yes. can't wait
I still think utilizing Poker Dice engine to make the Catan Dice game (we play alot), which is a lot of fun but not as complex as Catan, would be a winner on the iPhone.
Agreed- Perhaps Catan Dice could be a "Lite" free version to get folks to buy the full version.
why won't anyone make carcassonne!! i love that game
This is great news. I'm a board game fan who hasn't played Catan yet (I know, I know) but I'll buy this immediately––extra-immediately if there's online multiplayer.
I'd love to see an official Carcassonne on the iPhone, too. Here's hoping we'll see more Euro board games on the App Store soon.
Yeah, Carcassonne online would be great!
Good news for sure. But Kolonists is a great game. The card graphics and game play are quite good. Their website forum says they are working on Multiplayer version as well as enhancements to single player games.
I think the iPhone can really shine with network board games.
Catan would be huge if done well.
Zooloretto is a great board game adaptation– needs network version though.
Carcassonne would be great, but so would Ticket to Ride — which already has a huge online player network.
And finally my favorite that I would really love: Puerto Rico.
I've heard great things about the actual dead tree version. If they can port the XBox version I'll buy it, otherwise, this game is too graphically ugly and chunky for my taste.
I agree. Graphics and game-play organization will make or break this game.
If it looks anything like that mobilescreen shot above, I won't waste my money.
Unfortunately, I doubt it'll be a port of the 360 version. Big Huge Games did that version.
Why do developers think that those graphics will fly on iDevices? They have to update them for me to buy it.
catan is only fun when it takes 4 hours and your playing with real people
Well, I guess a pass and play game for car, train, and plane trips would be good.
If this is a port I hope it's a port of the XBOX Live! version and not the Catan: First Island game Exocet already published to other mobile devices. If they want to add expansions and what not later, fine, but get the first release right.
I am on board with agreeing that the graphics need to be improved. I play the OSX version a bit, and have noticed that the resource files are easy to get to, so I may replace the stock artwork with my own renderings… I would imagine the same could be done with the iPhone game.
Also – what's with the couple of posters – one claiming Catan takes 2.5 hours, and another claiming it takes 4 hours to play a game? Basic Settlers takes 45min to AT MOST 1.5 hours… That's part of the appeal of the game… in the time it takes you to play, for instance 1 game of Monopoly you could play 6 games of Catan.
Looks like the game has been submitted for approval to the app store.
They also have a screenshot on their site:
http://www.catan.com/gamenews
Looks like the game is now available for download at $4.99