Boardalo: Classic Board Games

20 beautifully made classic board games. Chess, Backgammon, Go, Hnefatafl, Senet and more. Play solo, with a friend nearby, or invite one online. Pay once.

20 classic board games. One beautiful app. No ads. No subscription.

Boardalo brings the games you grew up with - chess, checkers, backgammon, ludo, snakes & ladders - to your iPhone, hand-crafted with real wood textures, gold-leaf detailing, and the quiet polish of a boutique product. We didn't ship 100 generic clip-art games; we shipped twenty proper ones, each with a working AI, full rules, and the animations that make a game feel alive.

THE GAMES (20) • Chess - full rules including castling, en-passant, promotion; four AI difficulty tiers, hint system, move history, optional chess clock • Checkers - chain captures, must-capture rule, kinging, undo • Drop Four - gravity, four-in-a-row detection, smooth falling discs • Reversi - corner strategy, pass-handling, positional AI • Backgammon - pip count, doubling cube, gammon scoring, match play to 1/5/7/11 points • Ludo - 4-token race with capture and safe squares • Snakes & Ladders - square-by-square token walk • Royal Game of Ur - Mesopotamian race with rosettes and re-rolls • Senet - ancient Egyptian race with special squares • Kalaha - proper Mancala with capture-on-empty and extra-turn rules • Nine Men's Morris - full three-phase placement / movement / flying • Hex - connection game on an 11×11 hex board • Go - 9×9, 13×13 and 19×19 boards, ko rule, territory scoring • Hnefatafl - Viking siege game, asymmetric king-vs-attackers • Tic-Tac-Toe - perfect minimax AI plus easy mode • Gomoku - five in a row on 13×13 • Chinese Checkers - corner-to-corner race • Halma - larger jump-race • Peg Solitaire - single-player puzzle with hint system • Dominoes - block variant, full hand and boneyard

PLAY HOW YOU WANT • Solo against the AI - Casual, Standard, Strong, Expert difficulty tiers • Pass-and-play with someone next to you on the same phone • Play Nearby - two phones in the same room, no internet needed • Play Online - invite a Game Center friend, one move at a time, with push notifications

WHY BOARDALO • No ads anywhere. Ever. • No subscription. One payment unlocks everything. • No tracking. We don't sell your data because we don't collect it. • Plays offline — flights, trains, waiting rooms • iCloud-friendly: pause a match on your phone, resume later • Beautifully made: real wood textures, gold-leaf framing, considered typography

THREE FREE GAMES, SEVENTEEN PREMIUM Chess, Drop Four and Tic-Tac-Toe are free with the Casual AI. The one-time premium unlock opens the harder AI tiers on those games plus all 17 other games at full depth. One payment. Yours forever. Family Sharing supported.

PERFECT FOR Long train journeys. Doctor's waiting rooms. Quiet evenings. The 5 minutes before bed. Anyone who used to love physical board games and wants the same feeling in their pocket — without the chess.com subscription.

Made by an indie developer in Manchester.