CATAN: Traders & Barbarians Game Review

Like many board game families, mine is a CATAN household. We’ve been playing as a family on and off for maybe five years, starting with CATAN Junior. I have been playing CATAN (base, as well as CATAN: Cities & Knights) for more than 20. The kids love trading, I love the dice chucking, and I think my wife likes it mainly as a chance to complain how long it takes everyone else to take their turns.

I recently had the chance to acquire a review copy of 2007’s CATAN: Traders & Barbarians thanks to the continuous reprint plans cycled by the team at CATAN Studio. I say continuous because the CATAN games are now on their sixth editions. SIXTH!! That means that every few years, we get a new version that makes it a little harder to implement old versions of the game with newly-purchased editions.

CATAN in 2025 is a pretty slick-looking production, if my copy of Traders & Barbarians is any indication. The rulebook is very good; even though previous versions of the game did the job, the layout of the Traders & Barbarians manual might be my favorite thing in the whole box. That’s important because this box includes four variants that can be added to any game of CATAN, as well as five scenarios,…

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