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32 Best Catan Expansions, Editions & Extensions – Reviewed & Ranked Best To Worst

July 28, 2015 3 Comments

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This year Settlers of Catan (now simply called Catan) turns 20. It’s quietly become one of the best selling and most popular board games of all time and can now legitimately be considered a modern classic.

Yet, if you’ve only played the base game, you’re missing out on a whole world of expansions, extensions, new editions, variations and spin-offs to try.

Below we rank each of them according to their average rating on BoardGameGeek, which is pretty much the go-to site for all things board game related.

And, to make things even easier we’ve separated our rankings into:

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The 28 Best Map Based Strategy Board Games You’ve Probably Never Played

July 18, 2015 56 Comments

If you like board games and you like maps, you’ve almost certainly played Risk and have likely also played such classics as Diplomacy and Settlers of Catan before.

While these are all great games, they don’t even begin to scratch the surface of what’s out there. There’s a whole world of map based strategy board games you’ve been missing out on, until now.

Below we’ve listed 28 of the best, based mostly off rankings from boardgamegeek.com, which is pretty much the ultimate source for board game information.

Unless you’re the world’s biggest boardgame geek (and hats off to you if you are) then we guarantee that there will be at least a few that you’ve never played before.

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