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A new edition adds a 21st century twist: avoiding a climate catastrophe.</p><p>The premise of Catan: New Energies is similar to the original game. Players collect and trade commodities to build cities and roads.</p><p>The new twist is as players develop the island of Catan, they can decide whether to power it with renewable energy or fossil fuels. Those either increase or reduce the local carbon footprint. And they can trigger certain events, such as floods or air pollution.</p><div data-testid="embed-container" class="amat-oembed youtube" data-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-XZZvnSbFA"></div><p>Catan is produced by the French game publisher Asmodee, whose North American headquarters are in Lino Lakes.</p><div class="donate-ask undefined"><div class="donate-ask-header"><h2 class="hdg hdg-2">Turn Up Your Support</h2></div><div class="donate-ask-body"><p>MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding. Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. </p></div><div class="donate-ask-footer"><a href="https://support.mpr.org/mprnews-instory" class="btn btn-primary small-gap" data-testid="externalLink"><span class="type-lg">♡</span> <!-- -->Donate now</a></div></div><p>The New Energies edition takes the Catan island out of the Vikings era and drops it in the modern day, said Kelli Schmitz, Asmodee's director of sourcing and innovation for games. Players still need to accumulate resources such as bricks and steel, she said, along with a new one – energy. </p><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full"><picture class="" data-testid="picture"><source type="image/webp" srcSet="https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/cfc527-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-webp400.webp 400w,https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/013857-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-webp600.webp 600w,https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/26ed6e-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-webp1000.webp 1000w,https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/33b114-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-webp1400.webp 1400w,https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/049b9e-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-webp1436.webp 1436w" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" data-testid="webp"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcSet="https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/073c58-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-400.jpg 400w,https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/7a4f2f-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-600.jpg 600w,https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/0f5b0f-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-1000.jpg 1000w,https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/627d22-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-1400.jpg 1400w,https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/29dac3-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-1436.jpg 1436w" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" data-testid="notwebp"/><img src="https://img.apmcdn.org/f70e52a653562de22fb9f493a02b3f4288504007/normal/7a4f2f-20241008-catan-new-energies-01-600.jpg" alt="A board game is displayed on a table"/></picture><figcaption class="figure_caption"><div class="figure_text">A view of a board game Catan New Energies. The new game includes new pollution event tokens and resources like research and energy production, as well as hazards caused by pollution.</div><div class="figure_credit">Josh Savageau | MPR </div></figcaption></figure><p>“Really, one of our most valuable and important resources is electricity and power, and how are we generating that?” Schmitz said.</p><p>New Energies also adds a new element of cooperation to the competitive Catan. All players have to work together against the existential threat of climate disaster.</p><p>“If one person runs away and tilts it too far, it can end the whole game for everyone,” Schmitz said. “So there’s, I think, a lot of interesting ways that it reflects our current reality.”</p><p>The game doesn’t use the words “climate change,” instead using “pollution” or other terms to describe negative impacts of energy production. </p><p>That was an effort to make the game more understandable to the wider Catan audience, which includes hundreds of countries and 40 different languages, said Kevin Hovdestad, director of brand development at Catan Studio.</p><p>“Not every language has a phrase or a term for climate change in the same way, but everybody has a term for pollution,” he said.</p><p>Clean energy advocates have praised the game as a fun way to start conversations and get people thinking about energy use.</p><p>Eric Fowler, a senior policy associate at the nonprofit Fresh Energy, said it highlights how individual energy decisions have ripple effects on everyone.</p><p>“Every time that you are contributing renewable rather than fossil fuel based electricity, you are opening the window a little bit wider to better possibilities for everyone moving forward,” he said.</p><div class="apm-related-list"><div class="apm-related-list-title"> </div><ul class="apm-related-list-body"><li class="apm-related-link"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix">Getting to Green</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="/environment/greenenergy">Minnesota's energy future</a></li><li class="apm-related-link"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix">August 2023</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="/story/2023/08/08/the-challenge-and-opportunity-of-getting-to-green-in-minnesota">The challenge, and opportunity, of 'getting to green' in Minnesota</a></li><li class="apm-related-link"><span class="apm-related-link-prefix">April</span><a data-testid="relativeLink" href="/story/2024/04/22/npr-catan-board-game-climate-change-pollution">How do you build without over polluting? 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And we can’t actually pull that back on a one-to-one basis.”</p><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full"><picture class="" data-testid="picture"><source type="image/webp" srcSet="https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/8fa461-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-webp400.webp 400w,https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/cc430c-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-webp600.webp 600w,https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/9d88c6-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-webp1000.webp 1000w,https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/4d7c66-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-webp1400.webp 1400w,https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/0bedb7-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-webp1920.webp 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" data-testid="webp"/><source type="image/jpeg" srcSet="https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/4b1f8a-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-400.jpg 400w,https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/bba287-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-600.jpg 600w,https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/f74627-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-1000.jpg 1000w,https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/28b071-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-1400.jpg 1400w,https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/239e49-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-1920.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" data-testid="notwebp"/><img src="https://img.apmcdn.org/dde990b5241297806f7916d09299e8efb9c9c96e/uncropped/bba287-20241008-catan-new-energies-02-600.jpg" alt="A board game is displayed on a table"/></picture><figcaption class="figure_caption"><div class="figure_text">A view of a board game Catan New Energies. The game builds off of the popular Settlers of Catan, but adds complications based on pollution and climate disasters.</div><div class="figure_credit">Josh Savageau | MPR </div></figcaption></figure><p>Board games have long explored tough topics like war and economics. (Think Risk and Monopoly.) They allow people to take risks in a safe environment without real-world consequences, like actually destroying a planet, Schmitz said.</p><p>“It’s just one more way that we learn about our world through a board on a table,” she said.</p><p>Rob Davis, chief growth officer with M-RETS, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that tracks generation of renewable energy, has played Catan: New Energies with his two kids. He hopes games like it will help get more young people interested in energy-related careers.</p><p>“The more games we play that are related to thinking about climate and global and local emissions, the more we just become aware, and we see them in regular life,” Davis said.</p><p>Catan: New Energies was released in June, but copies can be tough to find. More should be available just after Halloween, in time for the holidays, Hovdestad said.</p><ul class="apm-related-list-body"><li class="related_item"><a class="related_link" data-testid="relativeLink" href="/story/2025/02/12/how-virtual-power-plants-could-help-minnesota-charge-toward-a-clean-energy-future">How ‘virtual’ power plants could help Minnesota charge toward a clean energy future</a></li><li class="related_item"><a class="related_link" data-testid="relativeLink" href="/story/2025/01/22/could-winter-hardy-crops-fuel-airline-flights-of-the-future-u-of-m-thinks-so">Could winter-hardy crops fuel airline flights of the future? 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