Elasund: The First City is the second game in the Catan Adventures series.
In this game players can both compete and cooperate to build the first city. It is even possible to have your buildings destroyed by others. A unique point of difference with this game is that it was not designed as a spin-off from Catan, but instead based on the Rebecca Gale novel, "Die Siedler von Catan." Of course this book was based on Catan. Gameplay was cleverly improved by adding a free Print and Play expansion offering more buildings.Elasund was released in 8 languages (the Nordic edition had 4 languages included). There were also two German versions as the first release of this first set did not have the Kosmos logo on the front. Presumably this was a mistake as it was quickly followed by a corrected version with the logo. While not particularly valuable, the copy without the logo is proving very hard to find.
I have been donated a Nordic version by a very kind Catan fan from Norway (thanks Lorena!!). This means I now have all 8 languages the game was released in. However I am still missing the German box missing the logo and will keep looking for this to complete the set of boxes.
- Elasund: La Première Cité
French edition (2006)
Publisher: Filosofia Éditions - Elasund: The First City
English edition (2005)
Publisher: Catan GmbH, KOSMOS, Mayfair Games - Elasund: Die erste Stadt
German edition without KOSMOS logo (2005)
Publisher: KOSMOS - Elasund: Die erste Stadt
German edition with KOSMOS logo (2005)
Publisher: KOSMOS - Elasund (Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish)
Nordic edition (2005)
Publisher: Tactic - Elasund: Первый город
Russian edition (2006)
Publisher: KOSMOS, Smart Ltd
There was also a free print-and-play expansion for Elasund released too. Some may have been made up to give away at events as I have a set that were apparently collected at Spiel.
My Elsund shelf looks even nicer now all the languages are displayed!!
For more information on this game there is a page on Board Game Geek, click here.