A Game of Thrones: Catan – 5-6 Player Extension

Board Game Geek Reviews

1. 7 out of 10

   von_rugen

   Nothing revolutionary, an effective solution for expanding player count. High quality components, but the solution for limiting turn-wait-times with higher player counts is a but clunky and remedial.

2. 4 out of 10

   Sir_Alex

   This is pretty much identical to the 5-6 player expansion for the original Settlers of Catan. Here it's even worse as the base game is already more complicated and this just adds more. The mammoths literally do nothing, but change the directional rule for breaches. The extra building phase, as in the original, makes the play time longer than it needs to be. The extra heroes are nice, but overall, I would steer clear of this unless you absolutely love this game and always have 5 or 6 people. Even then I would recommend another game.

3. 6 out of 10

   steelybobs

   GoT Catan adds some interesting mechanics but I don't think they're as tight and as well thought out as the original game. We played this with 6 players using the extension and my own feeling was that it was too cumbersome with this amount of players. There's extra convolution with turns adding in a "special building phase" which makes turns even longer. I can't help feel like the special building phase was shoe-horned in to balance things out but it just doesn't feel right. I would say, if you're really in to Game of Thrones and don't already own Catan, the 3-4 player game is worth it because you can play the classic base game when you want and add the Game of Thrones stuff in when you want to try something a bit different. The 5-6 player expansion just doesn't feel right to me. Others on the table enjoyed it enough but it's not something I'd recommend over other 5-6 player games.