Catan: Dawn of Humankind Review - Settlers Goes Full Stone Age

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Guide the first humans on their journey as they migrate throughout the world while developing their technology and culture.
CATAN: Dawn of Humankind is a reboot of The Settlers of the Stone Age, with gameplay rooted in the original CATAN, while featuring new elements, strategies, and adventures to discover.
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TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:04:55 - Ease of Play
0:05:25 - What I Like
0:07:03 - What I Don't Like
0:08:45 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:09:28 - Final Thoughts
0:10:28 - Recommendations
5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.
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[@Nimariel]

I’m mostly just intrigued by the Catan-tile Earth map.

[@BoardGameCo]

Yep :)

[@srebme2]

Love the Mythic Mischief hoodie!

[@BoardGameCo]

It's awesome :)

[@JacobPorterLadder]

Sad Dead Reckoning for the boot from your back Kallax 😭😭😭. Need more Ian O'Toole art back there

[@maxf.7262]

I know is october but i heard that "Winter is coming"

[@BoardGameCo]

:)

[@jeffhiatt1682]

Alex...nice runthrough. I have Settlers of the Stone Age and on the surface, they look nearly identical. So barring components, are you aware of any actual differences between SofSA from 2002 and this version? Oir is this really just a 20 year anniversary reprint with upgraded components?

[@BoardGameCo]

May just be a reprint, I'm not sure of any specific differences.

[@michaelhall7080]

Was thinking the same thing. Looks like Settlers of the Stone Age reprint.

[@jugsteve]

So happy for this review. Was looking at this at Target, with the tech tracks as intriguing, and now know not to buy.

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[@xshadowscreamx]

Carly rea Jepson would be hyped for this.

[@BoardGameCo]

Lol

[@EfrainRiveraJunior]

I haven't played Catan yet.

[@BoardGameCo]

Worth playing eventually :)

[@KesSharann]

Just play Bios Origins (if you want a good big world game) or Concordia (if you want light and better than Catan).

[@FragRevel]

Bios Origins looks awesome!

[@tubebobwil]

That "small central region" is Africa!

[@BoardGameCo]

:)

[@shaike82]

I have another much older game that does this better

[@BoardGameCo]

Which one?

[@shaike82]

@@BoardGameCo I think you mentioned it - The Settlers of the Stone Age 😁

[@kelych]

This seems a lot more complicated than regular Catan. Kind of like Cities and Knights, too complicated.