For the Media June 29, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The popular strategy-based expansion "Catan: Cities & Knights" and the exciting seafaring adventure "Catan: Explorers & Pirates" are finally being relaunched! Catan: Cities & Knights (Expansion) Catan: Explorers & Pirates (Expansion) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Toy manufacturer GP Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President: Hideji Yonekawa) will release two expansion sets of the highly popular board game "Catan" on July 24, 2026. Catan: Cities & Knights Price: 5,400 JPY (tax included 5,940 JPY) Release Date: July 24, 2026 (Fri) Shipping Date: July 17, 2026 (Fri) JAN Code: 4543471004550 Number of Players: 3-4 Recommended Age: 12 years and up Playing Time: 120 minutes or more Product Page Image Materials and Resources Catan: Explorers & Pirates Price: 5,800 JPY (tax included 6,380 JPY) Release Date: July 24, 2026 (Fri) Shipping Date: July 17, 2026 (Fri) JAN Code: 4543471004611 Number of Players: 2-4 Recommended Age: 10 years and up Playing Time: 100 minutes or more Product Page Image Materials and Resources ◆ Product Information Both "Catan: Cities & Knights" and "Catan: Explorers & Pirates" are major expansion sets designed to be added to the base game "Catan: Standard Edition." Catan: Cities & Knights A popular expansion that greatly enhances strategic depth, allowing players to develop knights to defend the island from barbarian attacks while advancing in science, politics, and trade to grow their cities. • Knight vs. barbarian battles • Competition in developing science, politics, and trade • Construction of metropolises • Deeper strategic gameplay Catan: Explorers & Pirates A major expansion full of adventure, where players explore unknown seas, discover new islands, and complete various missions. • Includes 5 scenarios • Explore uncharted waters • Adventures and transportation by ship • Scenarios can be combined We recommend "Cities & Knights" for players seeking deeper stra