Every rule in your hands
A settlement-building game where the rulebook is editable. Set the board, the numbers and the consequences before anyone rolls — then play it with five friends and a four-letter code.
Shown to everyone at the table. Remembered on this device.
Up to six players. Desktop or phone. Rules are locked in when the host starts the game, so everyone plays the same rulebook.
Points to win, what a road costs, how close you may build to a rival, how many dice and how many sides. The classic game is just one setting among thousands.
Rules are cards: when a road is built, if it runs alongside an opponent’s, then the builder loses a point. Chain them, limit them, share them.
Longest Road and Largest Army are ordinary rows you can edit. Add “Unluckiest Roller” and the player the dice keep punishing collects points for it.
Seven ore tiles and two grain, three deserts, ten cards of wheat, a hand-drawn island from the designer. The generator never refuses — it just deals what you asked for.
A hex island, five resources, two dice. Roll, collect, trade with the table, build a road, build a settlement, upgrade it, get to ten points first. Three to six people, in a browser, in about an hour.
The difference is that every one of those numbers is a field. Ten points, or seven. Two six-sided dice, or two eight-sided ones. Nineteen wool in the bank, or ten. Seven ore tiles and two grain, if that is the island you want to play on.
The standard game is the default configuration — not a special case in the code, just one saved set of numbers among the ones the lobby can reach.
Five and six-player tables get the bigger board and a special build phase.
A nickname and a four-letter code. Nothing to install. Only a host who subscribes ever signs in.
Rendered in 3D, with a flat 2D view one click away when a laptop would rather not.
Layer one
Typed settings: tabs, counts, sliders and toggles. Costs per piece. How close you may build to a rival, as a separate number from how close you may build to yourself. What the robber does when it lands. Config changes what the game will let you do.
Layer two
Cards with three columns: when an event fires, if some condition holds, then do these things to these players. Rules react. They can also set off other rules.
“Players should be able to run a road alongside an opponent’s — but it should cost them a point.” That is one sentence and two different things, so it is two edits:
The setting decides what the game permits. The rule decides what it costs you. How the editor works →
House rule
Building a road alongside an opponent’s costs the builder 1 victory point. Fires at most twice per game.
House rule
When the robber lands on a wool tile, every owner of that tile holding more than 7 cards discards all their wool.
Catch-up
At the end of every turn the player holding the most cards gives 1 random card to the player holding the fewest.
Award
Anyone forced to discard to the robber 5 times permanently gains 2 victory points, so a bad start is not a buried one.
$0no account, no card
Play the standard game with your friends, as often as you like.
$5.99a month
or$47.99a year ($4.00/month)
Everything in Free, plus games with any rule changed — for everyone at your table.
Only the host subscribes. Subscribing needs a sign-in so the payment belongs to someone. Everyone at your table plays your custom rules without an account, whether or not they have ever paid for anything.
That is the whole setup. Your friends never need an account, and you only need one if you subscribe. If you want to bend something first, the lobby is where it happens — and whatever you agree on is locked in the moment the game starts, so nobody can move the goalposts on turn nine.
Islanders is a hex-and-resource strategy game that runs in the browser. Nothing to download.