What should you play after Catan?
Games like Catan should combine approachable rules with simple income or resource management and trading or competition over shared spaces. The best next step depends on what you loved most: negotiation, building routes, or building a resource engine and letting it snowball.
Popular games like Catan
Ticket to Ride is an easy next step for route building, Space Base keeps the dice-driven production feeling, and Machi Koro retains dice-generated income, engine building and even a chance to ocassionally steal from an opponent.
