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Features
Take a closer look at your next game.
A living 3D table. See the terrain, number tokens, ports, and every player’s growing network.
Try the guided game See all featuresBring your table together
- Public or private
- Find a game in the lobby or invite friends with a private link. Guests can join an invitation with just a name.
- Your rules, your opponents
- Choose the player count, victory target, discard limit, and timer. Fill spare seats with Balanced or Random computer players.
- Ready when you are
- Start when everyone is ready. Public hosts can set a karma requirement; players choose how their names appear.

Everything within reach
- Build and trade
- See legal placements on the island, manage your hand, and trade with players, ports, or the bank.
- Stay in the conversation
- Chat with your table and keep track of offers as the game unfolds.
- Watch or return
- Spectate without taking a seat, or reconnect through your table link from the same browser. Ordinary games keep hands private.

Learn a move. Discover a strategy.
- Learn by playing
- Place your first settlement, collect resources, and make a trade with a guide beside you.
- Practice at your own pace
- Play against local AI on settlers.dev, then review recorded games to understand what happened.
- Explore the research
- Read published strategies and game replays. Dedicated research tables can expose all hands for analysis.

Follow the research
Explore how our AI players learn to make better decisions.