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Catan Unvierse 2.0 Preview 4 and Server maintenance June 29th

Dear Catanians,

today we are happy to announce that CATAN Universe 2.0 will release Monday June 29th!




As this is a bigger update we will put our servers into maintenance mode at 11 AM [CEST] on Monday for a couple of hours.

Additionally we'd like to share with you the new account and matchmaking structure in CATAN Universe 2.0.
It will now be possible to play single player games in CATAN Universe without registering an account as well as playing free-matches without chat functionality against other players.

Since the Scrolls will be replaced by Suns in the future the Auto Match will be reserved for players that registered an account and unlocked their desired game mode with Gold.
We hope that this will improve the quality of the ranked Auto Match play while still allowing our free users to play the game online as well as offline.

Thanks so much for your feedback in advance and we'll see you on the island.

Catan Universe 2.0 Preview 3

Dear Catanians,

as promised today we are going to show you a first deeper look into the reworked UI in CATAN Universe 2.0. Those with keen eyes might also spot a future feature in this overview.

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We are eager for your feedback and we'll see you on the island!

Catan Universe 2.0 Preview 2

Dear Catanians,

today we'd like to take the time to talk about one of the biggest changes in CATAN Universe 2.0: The in-game currency system.
We came up with a more flexible in game currency that will allow Catanians to spend it on exactly the scenario they want to play and which also partly recharges over time.
CATAN Suns will replace our old Scrolls and of course these Suns do not only differ in name but also in functionality.



A Sun will allow you to play a single player game in CATAN Universe in any expansion you desire and as you can see in the picture below they come in two forms.



A red Sun is a temporary Sun meaning once you use it is gone. You can earn some of those during the user journey to get you started and via promotions on our social media channels as well as on our Discord server. You can stash as many as 10 red Suns in your account at the same time.
The yellow Sun is a permanent Sun meaning after you used it, it will start recharging itself and within 12 hours it will be functional again. Your account starts out with one of those and you'll earn a second one once you reach the new max level 25.
These rechargeable yellow Suns are also to an answer to the age-old question by our free to play users that weren't able to play their desired scenarios in CATAN Universe after they spent all their scrolls.

Besides using Suns to unlock single player scenarios it will still of course be possible to play the Free Match and the basic Custom-Match with up to 2 friends after registering an account but we'll go into more detail concerning the future of the account structure in CATAN Universe in another update post.

Additionally CATAN Suns won ́t be purchasable in the shop. Therefore the only currency left in the shop will be Catan Gold which you can use for fully unlocking expansion and to take part in special in game events. Of course there will be a transitioning phase were you can still redeem your old scrolls but again we’ll go into more details about that once the update is about to go live!

Thanks a lot for your feedback in advance and we'll see you on the island!

Catan Universe 2.0 Preview 1

Dear Catanians,

we are super excited to finally be able to officially announce CATAN Universe 2.0 which includes a full menu UI overhaul, a new more flexible in-game currency system and groundworks for exciting new content in the future. Also from a technical standpoint, CATAN Universe 2.0 helps us streamline our development process tremendously, which will make further updates much smoother. This is also the reason why we've decided to release this update despite the current influx of new users so that we can react to your feedback more quickly. We've attached a couple of pictures to this post to give you a glimpse of the new version but we'll post more details about the update and its release in the following weeks.

Thanks so much for your continued feedback and patience and we'll see you on the island!


New in game UI





Quick trade for the desktop version





New main menu structure (mobile view)





More player levels (mobile view)





Catan Universe 1.9.1

Improved reliability for ”Custom match” lobby

Technical overhaul of the friend list in “Custom match” lobby