For kids whose board game experience mostly included Battleship and The Game of Life, Catan was a revelation.Īs happens with any entry point into a hobby, Catan often gets pushed to the back of the game shelf as your collection grows. Now on its fifth edition, re-branded as simply Catan, the über-popular German game has been published in 30 languages and has several expansions and licensed versions ( A Game of Thrones Catan, anyone?) as well as a two-player variant.įor much of the world, Settlers of Catan was an introduction to German-style board games that involve more strategic gameplay than American games, which are mainly conflict- and/or luck-based. Of course, we couldn’t do a list of the best Mayfair games, or a list of the best board games in general, without mentioning Settlers of Catan.
To bid goodbye to this pillar of the board game community, we’ve rounded up the best games Mayfair published in its 20 years of operation. Asmodee North America, which bought the Catan franchise in 2016, acquired the remaining Mayfair catalog to add to its growing roster of tabletop games.
The good news is that those quality games aren’t just going to disappear. Catan was an entry point into more serious tabletop gaming for many people, myself included, and several Polygon readers commented that when they saw a Mayfair label on a game they considered it a sign of quality. The tabletop gaming industry has been growing exponentially in the last few decades, thanks in large part to Settlers of Catan. The company announced last week that it would be closing its doors after 20 years in the industry.īoard game fans across the internet were saddened, if not too surprised, by the news. Mayfair Games, the American publisher of classic board games including the massively popular Settlers of Catan series, is shutting down.
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