Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Launch two rival motherships into a changing galaxy, trade for resources, recruit allies, and race to earn ten victory points.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Catan: Starfarers Duel compresses Starfarers into a dedicated two-player contest. Each captain begins with a modular mothership and explores a card-driven galaxy, discovering planets, trading posts, pirate bases, and helpful alien peoples. Resource dice power construction, trade, and upgrades, while the mothership’s booster balls determine movement and can trigger encounters. New modules improve freight, weapons, engines, or colony capacity, so every expansion decision changes which opportunities you can reach. The first player to ten victory points wins, but success depends on building an efficient ship without surrendering the best routes and alliances to a rival.
