Review: Catan (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S. 

Once upon a time, Monopoly and Risk were giants of the board game world. Every family had copies, everyone played them, and it was considered a great family activity to break out either of the two on a Sunday afternoon. Fast forward to today and more people recognise that Monopoly and Risk are both pretty poorly-designed games. Both classics are overly reliant on luck via random dice rolls, limited in strategic scope, and generally unpleasant to play in the way they outright encourage bullying behaviour. There’s something of value in each, in looking at how they both mirror a whole load of real-world behaviours and attitudes, but I can’t think of a single person that, having a pile of board games to choose between, would choose either Monopoly or Risk for a games evening.

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