This is the best summary I could come up with:

There wasn't direct conflict or battle, but there were scarce resources, and the savviest player could corner the market for them.

While it is "rooted in classic Catan mechanics of trading, harvesting, and building," there are some decidedly 2024 issues at play now that the Vikings have settled in for more than a millennia.

“Very often at the end of the game, you see everybody completely freaking out, like, ‘Oh man, we’ve got to save the world!’” Benjamin Teuber told Fast Company.

If you haven't played a Catan game in a while or missed most of the variants and alternate settings, New Energies might provide a distinctly fresh experience.

And the new systems look like they'll provide some new layers of strategy for those who might feel too familiar with the core Catan concepts.

At a minimum, you can test your friends' patience and sense of humor by playing as a game-ending cheap coal villain.

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