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Catan

Catan is a handheld implementation of a board game Settlers of Catan. There is a flat board with the game world divided on a number of hexagons. The goal of the game is to reach ten Victory points that are…

10 October 2005

Catan is a card & board game, released 10 October 2005 on N-Gage.

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What Catan is

Catan was released in 2005. It was published by Capcom. It is available on N-Gage only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Catan is a handheld implementation of a board game Settlers of Catan. There is a flat board with the game world divided on a number of hexagons. The goal of the game is to reach ten Victory points that are earned by having settlements, point cards and some other conditions, however there could be other goals in this version. Every turn players can either build roads, settlements and cities or expand onto over territories, which also produce different resources needed for construction. Resources could be either purchased for Settlement cards or traded with other players. The N-Gage version, besides the traditional board game rules, also features a multi-stage tournament and a quest-mode with…
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What it launched against

Catan launched on 10 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005).

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005).

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When did Catan come out?
Catan was released on 10 October 2005 for N-Gage.

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