Classic Catan spinoff gets a reboot later this year: Dawn of Humankind

Catan, the granddaddy of the board game boom, hasn’t merely been around long enough to have a whole spread of spinoffs and expansions — it’s been around long enough for those spinoffs to be rebooted too. Available this fall Catan: Dawn of HumankindA stand-alone stand-alone video game that is set on a traditional stand-alone board game. CatanCatan brings the game under its brand and introduces it to fans of strategy games to an earlier version.

Catan Studio says so Dawn of HumankindIt is the reboot of The The Stone Age SettlersStrategy game, which is based on CatanThat was released in 2002. Catan’s more agrarian set dressing. The new version of the game — which was designed by Catan creator Klaus Teuber and his son Benjamin Teuber — will introduce new mechanics to work with its Pleistocene epoch setting.

Catan — Dawn of Humankind Launched at Target, Hobby stores, USA, Canada and Australia on October 1.