# Catan Classic HD — user reviews > 403 indexed App Store user reviews of Catan Classic HD by United Soft Media Verlag GmbH, rated 3.60/5 from 3,172 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/catan-classic-hd/id390422167/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/catan-classic-hd/id390422167.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,226 · 4★ 685 · 3★ 414 · 2★ 333 · 1★ 514 ## What do users think of Catan Classic HD? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great game - 👍 True to the board game - 👍 Variety of game options - 👍 Customizable rules - 👍 Enjoyable gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes - 🐛 Disappearing UI elements - 🐛 Unresponsive controls - 🐛 Inconsistent dice rolls - 🐛 Biased AI behavior - 💰 Expensive for full experience **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes when moving the robber - Development card screen disappears - Inability to see other players' trades - Inconsistent behavior when exiting and resuming games - Crashes when completing campaign scenarios **Most requested features** - Improved online matchmaking - Turn time limits for online play - Ability to design custom boards - Better tutorial and explanations - Ability to pause and resume games - More detailed game statistics ## Newest reviews (17 of 403) ### 3/5 — Glitchy *2026-08-01, version 4.8.2* This app can be very frustrating. Logging in fails or just hangs far too often. It has skipped players, no dice roll just on to the next. In one game it glitched and my settlement had been changed to another player, right in the beginning. I ended up just having one of my picks. The other player had one of mine plus their two. It also doesn’t always give you your resource when the dice roll shows one of your numbers. I haven’t seen any updates so I doubt anyone is working on these issues. When things work well it’s decent. ### 4/5 — Love this app but *2026-05-24, version 4.8.2* I have been playing this game on my iPad for years and I love it. However, in the past year I’ve noticed that the game now constantly crashes. Like I can’t get through a single game without it crashing at least 2 or 3 times. I don’t have this problem with any other apps on my iPad. I’ve updated it, I’ve de/re-installed it, nothing seems to fix the problem. It’s a shame because I’ve slowly stopped playing the game out of frustration. ### 2/5 — Crashes *2026-05-03, version 4.8.2* Keeps crashing after 3-5 minutes ### 2/5 — Very glitchy *2026-04-29, version 4.8.2* This game freezes often. The graphics are cartoonish. Catan Universe works far better ### 2/5 — Amazing rolls AI is stacked *2026-04-26, version 4.8.2* Amazing how you can lose all resource's in two plays. Ai rolls 7, blocks your 8. Steals from you, next player plays knight steals from you, next player plays monopoly cards cleans out what is left. Then you roll an 8. And then next 3 rolls are 8. Just when you are about to win, someone plays 3 VP points. They must have unlimited of those and knight cards ### 2/5 — Cheats so bad.... *2026-04-26, version 4.8.2* Don’t waste your time. ### 2/5 — Very unrealistic and not fun to play *2026-04-12, version 4.8.2* People have been complaining about the algorithm for this app for years, and it hasn’t gotten any better in all that time. I play Cities and Knights and the seafarers versions in real life and on this app, and this app is ridiculous. The number of wedding, saboteur, resource monopoly, deserter cards etc. is completely unrealistic. There are only so many of those cards in a real deck, and in a real game they come up infrequently. And, number of times you get robbed as soon as you acquire some assets is extremely improbable. There are games when I’ve been robbed three or four dice rolls in a row, with the bots moving the robber back and forth from one of my hexes to another one to another one etc. In a real game, the likelihood of losing a city at the start of the game because you haven’t been able to get a knight on the board is very low, and on the app it happens all the time. In fact, I’ve played games where every player lost their city the first time the barbarians attacked, which would be almost impossible in a real game. The developers should work on making the bots play a realistic game of Catan, instead of only being able to beat you by stealing all of your assets. It’s probably more work as far as coding goes, yet the game is still as unplayable as it was a few years ago. I’m uninstalling it and not playing it anymore. If you decide to actually work on fixing it let me know and I’ll try it again. ### 3/5 — Crashes *2026-03-14, version 4.8.2* Fix the crashing on iPad please!!! ### 3/5 — Weird non-functional screen *2026-02-21, version 4.8.2* Sometimes after playing for 20-30 minutes the trade, build or card screens are only an outline or not at all visible. This is an older bug and should be fixed! ### 3/5 — Long term bugs *2026-01-30, version 4.8.2* Sure why they won’t fix this. For example at a certain point in the game you will not be able to see your cards. You have to exit out, continue game will send you the blank screen and reload the whole app ### 3/5 — Great but has bugs *2026-01-26, version 4.8.2* Enjoy this game but it does crash quite a bit particularly when trading ### 4/5 — Crashes! *2026-01-10, version 4.8.2* Love the game but crashes are really annoying. I’ve followed all instructions but they still occur at least twice during a game. ### 2/5 — Great game but disconnects frequently *2026-01-09, version 4.8.2* I would like better stats, and also for it to stop asking me after every game to sign in again. Drops out if I play with humans but it with AI. Please look into fixing the bugs as I love this game so much! ### 2/5 — Hay muchas fallas *2026-01-04, version 4.8.2* El juego tiene muchos fallas, en donde el juego se guinda cuando uno está en el proceso de desarrollo, no permitiendo hacer caminos en donde uno necesita. Y luego se mucho insistir, el juego cuelga y no queda otra que resetear el juego/app ### 4/5 — Relaxing play *2025-12-31, version 4.8.2* I paid for this online game a few years ago but they locked me out of a few boards not sure why. Can’t see paying twice. I have all the box games and enjoy playing with family ### 2/5 — Keeps crashing *2025-12-12, version 4.8.2* Keeps crashing in the middle of the game. I bought the first one it had this problem so bought this one thinking they fixed the bugs but they didn’t ### 2/5 — Crashes *2025-12-08, version 4.8.2* Fun game, terrible app. Crashes and freezes all the time. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — SR *2026-05-06, version 4.8.2* Game cheats and crashes all the time. ### 1/5 — horrendous app *2026-04-27, version 4.8.2* it always bugs out or is straight up broken. it randomly switches to dutch to try and reset the password. goes non responsive. hands down most broken app award winner. ### 1/5 — Unplayable *2026-04-04, version 4.8.2* The title says it all. I can no longer even start a game. ### 1/5 — Unfair Dice Role *2026-03-14, version 4.8.2* Please write better code for the dice role…..it is so far from random. I have played this game too much and the “lucky” anomalies that happen in favor of the AI are far too frequent to be random. I am big fan of Catan and I am at the point of deleting the App because it just isn’t an enjoyable experience to have the “AI” working against you time and time again in a way that just isn’t fair. Stop stacking the deck! ### 1/5 — Garbage AI *2026-03-10, version 4.8.2* This is impossible to play against the bots. No matter where you place your houses, the numbers that roll will not be yours. 11’s and 9’s will roll constantly if that’s where the bots are. No point in looking for high frequency numbers, they will not be rolled. Garbage app. Wish I could attach the screenshot of the endgame, where 11's rolled constantly. One bot was up to 46 resources and didn't know what to do with them. I received 2 resources in about 8 rolls. ### 1/5 — Expansions Disappearing? *2026-03-04, version 4.8.2* I have had access to and enjoyed this game for years and years. I also have all the expansion packs. Suddenly I can’t access Cities and Knights. What gives? I don’t want to have to go back to Catan Universe. This version is way more usable. ### 1/5 — I want my money back *2026-02-07, version 4.8.2* This game does not let you login and I have gone in circles trying to figure out how to add a friend yet it just reroutes me to log in and I had to verify my email and it flagged it as spam and made me active with clicking a link ### 1/5 — WHY IS IT GERMAN *2026-02-07, version 4.8.2* Spent the last hour trying to just log in and it kept saying I already had an account WHICH I DONT and kept sending me sketchy emails with weird links. I finally got logged in and as I was trying to set up a game, I got logged out. IT ALSO KEEPS SWITCHING TO GERMAN ### 1/5 — Game cheats and crashes *2025-12-30, version 4.8.2* Game cheats when playing the computer and sometimes glitches and crashes ### 1/5 — Not random it’s rigged *2025-11-25, version 4.8.2* Even using stack it’s geared to go against you. If dice odds were weighted properly it would be better but it’s very rigged against you. Super frustrating. Not worth playing ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great way to learn Catan *2026-05-19, version 4.8.2* I lost continually to my adult kids until I started playing on this app. I learned the rules and began to win. ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2026-02-15, version 4.8.2* Love playing Catan. One issue is on my iPad you can’t see how many Development cards are left (icons cover the total) so I will do trades to buy one then find out there aren’t any available and are then left with cards I don’t want or need. Besides that it’s great. ### 5/5 — I have enjoyed this game for years. *2025-12-04, version 4.8.2* It’s great to pick this up and play a round, especially with my son. I haven’t had the same overwhelming sense of unfair dice rolls as other reviewers. Sure, the AI targets the human if the human is winning, but that’s normal game play. I like the design and function ability. It’s great to have AI to fill out 4 players. Great game. ### 5/5 — Well worth playing! Fun even with some quirks. *2025-06-25, version 4.8.2* I've used this mobile game for years now, and it's still a lot of fun to play, even though it has some quirks. And I still recommend it. ### 5/5 — Great game *2025-02-07, version 4.8.2* Enjoyable strategy game like the board it always is changing. ### 5/5 — Best Catan version available *2025-01-13, version 4.8.2* This version of Catan is the one you want. Has all the expansions including the original “Greater Catan” which is the best format for this game I reckon. Great online community, good graphics, great gameplay. The other official Catan HD version is absolutely terrible, crashes all the time and has Atari graphics. ### 5/5 — Great game *2024-11-22, version 4.8.2* Love the game but I do get booted off a lot ### 5/5 — Great game, but… *2024-07-26, version 4.8.2* I only wish the online multiplayer engine was less buggy. ### 5/5 — I love this game of Catan!. *2024-07-18, version 4.8.2* This game suits a wide age range. I can make my mum play with me ### 5/5 — Brilliant game *2024-05-23, version 4.8.2* One of the few board games that translates to computer game just like playing in real time. Great speed and a wonderful brain work out. So many variations within the one app. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-20.*