Overview

Catan Histories: Rise of the Inkas follows the rise and fall of three successive civilizations in ancient Peru. Players lead tribes through three cultural eras, building settlements, roads, and cities to accumulate culture points. When a tribe reaches its cultural apex, it falls and overgrows, and the player begins with a new tribe. The first player to bring their third tribe to its apex wins. The game uses familiar Catan mechanics (dice rolling, resource collection, trading, building) with 8 resource/good types and unique tribal progression.

Components

• Game board with 27 hexes (framed)
• 8 terrain types producing resources and goods: wood, ore, stone, wool (resources); feathers, coca, fish, potato (goods)
• Number tokens
• Resource and goods cards
• Settlements, roads, cities in player colors
• Overgrowth tokens (to cover fallen civilizations)
• 2 dice, robber figure, development cards

Setup

1. Assemble frame and place hexes (fixed for beginners).
2. Place number tokens on hexes.
3. Each player places 2 starting settlements and 2 roads.
4. Each player starts with 2 culture points.

Turn Structure

Standard Catan turn: roll dice, trade, build.

1. Roll Dice: All hexes with the matching number produce for adjacent settlements/cities. Resources (wood, ore, stone, wool) and goods (feathers, coca, fish, potato) are collected.

2. Trade: Trade with other players. Goods (feathers, fish, coca) can be used as currency: trade goods at special exchange rates instead of using harbors.

3. Build: Roads, settlements, cities, and development cards using resource combinations.

Actions

When a tribe reaches its cultural apex (specific culture point threshold), it falls:

• All settlements and cities of that tribe become overgrown (marked with overgrowth tokens).
• Overgrown structures block the spaces they occupy but produce no resources for any player.
• The player takes over a new tribe of the next era with new settlements and roads.

Scoring / Victory Conditions

Players must lead three successive tribes to their cultural apex. The first player to complete the third tribe’s apex (reaching 11 total culture points across all three eras) wins.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• Overgrown settlements/cities still occupy their intersections and block new building.
• Adjacent players can still build roads past overgrown structures.
• When transitioning between tribes, the player places new starting settlements and roads.
• The robber works as in standard Catan (rolling 7 moves robber, blocks production, steal).
• Goods cannot be used for building but can be traded at favorable rates.

Player Reference

Era	Goal
First Tribe	Build to cultural apex, then tribe falls
Second Tribe	Build to cultural apex, then tribe falls
Third Tribe	Build to cultural apex = WIN

Total culture points to win: 11 (across 3 tribes)