You can now play a free Catan clone on Discord

A dutiful clone of mega-popular board game Catan is now available to play for free inside Discord. You and your friends can now trade wool and lumber simply by starting a call - no separate downloads or purchases necessary. Discord introduced Activities back in 2022, allowing friends to stream videos and music together in a group call, along with playing a few admittedly simple games. The mega-popular VoIP platform gradually expanded the list of available games to about 18 different titles, ranging from easy card games such as Blazing 8s to the massively shared colouring book in Color Together. Colonist.io is, for all intents and purposes, Catan as you probably know it all the way down to victory point scoring, names for resources and even optional Seafarers and Cities & Knights expansions. The team developing Colonist has simply filed off all of creator Klaus Teuber’s serial numbers and ported the remaining experience online. Read more