The board game with economic theory, land development, and cute little buildings
The New Yorker profiles Klaus Teuber, the man behind Settlers of Catan: Teuber himself is more sanguine. “I do not see that Catan will kill Monopoly,” he said. “But I hope that Catan will become a permanent classic game beside Monopoly.” In Catan, one player’s success can benefit others, and if you simply form a monopoly on one resource you’ll never win, since you have to have a combination of different elements to get anywhere on the island.
