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I really like Settlers of Catan, but I have never found a nicely designed online site to play it. Does any of you know of anything?

Also surprised that there's no "free" + "open source" version of it, like FreeCiv or FreeCol or FreeOrion.

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Tabletop Simulator is good, once you get used to it and learn a few keyboard shortcuts! Only downside is it's usually $30 and I am not 100 percent sure if the catan ports are safe to forever remain? If anyone has insight on the legalities of Tabletop Simulator I am curious.

In the US it's $20, with discounts to $10 (look for the upcoming Steam sale). I am not qualified to speak on legality but a cursory search suggests that the catan ports are technically not safe... still, there are many versions in the workshop as catan is such a popular game. It's hard to imagine that they all get pulled without replacement.

Thanks for the reply. I hope they continue on there!

>In the US it's $20, with discounts to $10 (look for the upcoming Steam sale).

Thanks, looks like it will finally be time to gift it to a friend!

I'm a little late with this, but my brother, cousins and I have been playing at http://games.asobrain.com/ for years. For copyright reasons, it's Explorers there.

They also have Carcasonne, which they call Tolouse.

http://www.playcatan.com had a pretty good client... too bad it's not open for new registrations any more. They have Catan Universe now instead - not sure how good it is, though.

What about Pioneers (http://pio.sourceforge.net/)?

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