In this unique card game, each player acquires resources from the lands surrounding their cities and can spend those resources on new cities, roads, knights, and civic improvements. Every civic improvement serves some useful function or adds victory points (necessary to win the game) or both. Action cards, drawn from the same decks as city improvements and knights, have more direct and temporary effects and serve to mix things up a bit.Belongs to the Catan Series and is part of the Kosmos two-player series. - BoardGameGeek