Pricing
You can play the standard game with your friends for nothing, for as long as you like. A subscription lets you start games with the rules changed — any setting, any rule card, a board you drew — and it covers the whole table, not just you.
$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.
Prices in US dollars. $47.99 a year is $4.00 a month, billed once a year.
The free game is the full standard game: the regular board, the regular costs, ten points to win, the robber on a 7, the usual development deck, Longest Road and Largest Army. Three to six players, as many games as you want, on the same server a subscriber’s game runs on.
Nobody needs an account for it. That includes the host. Trading, chat, reconnecting to your seat and the replay at the end are all part of it.
What is not free is playing with any of it changed. Move one ore tile, add one of the 33 preset house rules or 10 preset awards, or put a clock on turns, and starting that game needs a subscription. The line is drawn per change, and each change is named in plain words — “Ore tiles: 4 instead of 3” — so you can see exactly what you would be paying for, or put it back. See the presets →
Re-rolling the board is not a change. A different deal of the same standard rules is still the standard game, and stays free.
No. Only the person who creates the game. If you subscribe, everyone at that table plays your custom rules — the host’s ruleset is the game, and the other five seats never see a paywall.
Yes, any time. Cancelling stops the next charge. You and your friends can keep playing the standard game afterwards, as often as you like — nothing about the free game depends on ever having paid.
Nothing deletes them. Saved rulesets are kept in your own browser, so cancelling cannot reach them.
What lapses is starting a game with one, and saving new ones. If you are thinking about cancelling, export the rulesets you care about to JSON first — that file is yours whatever happens, and it imports straight back in if you resubscribe.
The standard game is free, unlimited, and needs no account — that is the trial. What a subscription adds is the editing, not the playing.
Because the game is a server, not a download. Rooms, sockets, the event log every game is rebuilt from, and the replays all cost something every month that the game exists.
It works out at $4.00 a month instead of $5.99 — about four months free across the year. Take the monthly one if you are not sure yet; there is nothing to gain by committing early.
Questions about the game itself are on the FAQ.