Catan Assistant 4+

There’s only just one single download - the original Settlers of Catan. There’s no expansions, no other Catan games, that’s it. There’s even filter functionality.. so you can filter between one search result. That’s it, nothing else is on there, except for the original game - Settlers of Catan: Trade Build Settle.

I’m sure it teaches you how to play Settlers of Catan well, and that’s why it’s not a one star review. I wanted to learn how to play Starfarers Duel using the app, excitedly downloaded the app, and found that there is only one single tutorial. 4 years this app has been on the App Store. What? How? Probably completely abandoned.

First impression was that the app would be really helpful but quite early on there seems to be corrupted files. The section on the robber and placement of the pieces had no robber or pieces. App help offered help to do with missing physical pieces but didn't offer help with app related issues. I deleted the download and downloaded a second time but the fault was still there.

Downloaded this in the hope that it would be able to explain Catan in away that is easier for kids to digest. Turned out to be useless for this purpose. Despite the title, it seems to be more of a shop window for other games by this company. I couldn't even find the way into the Catan instructions. I looked in the obvious places - the search function yielded no results for ‘Catan’, for example. Perhaps the instructions are somewhere well hidden and you can find if you dig around hard enough. For us it was a waste of fifteen minutes and I will uninstall forthwith.