# Tessera: Settle & Build

> Offline hex board strategy

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6783182895](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6783182895)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6783182895`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ashray Chowdhry
- **Category:** Board
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-17
- **First published:** 2026-06-30
- **Size:** 20 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tessera-settle-build/id6783182895)
- **Website:** [https://ashraychowdhry.github.io/tessera-app/](https://ashraychowdhry.github.io/tessera-app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://ashraychowdhry.github.io/tessera-app/privacy.html](https://ashraychowdhry.github.io/tessera-app/privacy.html)

## Description

Tessera is a fast, friendly game of building a frontier one hexagon at a time. Gather resources, trade shrewdly, build roads and settlements, and race your friends to victory — all on a beautifully rendered, freshly shuffled hex board every game.

PLAY ANYWHERE — NO INTERNET
Tessera connects players phone-to-phone over local Wi-Fi, a personal hotspot, or direct nearby connections. No accounts, no servers, no signal required — perfect for road trips, flights, and the kitchen table.

EASY TO LEARN, RICH TO MASTER
• Roll the dice each turn and harvest the resources your settlements touch
• Trade with rivals — or the bank — to get exactly what you need
• Build roads, settlements, and cities; buy development cards
• Claim the Longest Road and Largest Army for bonus points
• Move the robber to slow down a runaway leader
• First to 10 points wins

NEW: CITIES & KNIGHTS MODE
A full expansion-style variant for veterans, selectable when you create any game:
• Cities produce commodities — cloth, coin, and paper
• Develop trade, politics, and science; claim metropolises for big points
• Recruit, activate, and promote knights to defend the island
• Barbarians raid the coast — the least-defended players lose a city
• 54 progress cards, city walls, the merchant, and a race to 13 points

SMART BOTS, ANY TIME
Play solo or fill empty seats with bots at three difficulty levels. If a friend drops out mid-game, a difficulty-matched bot takes over instantly — and hands the seat right back the moment they reconnect.

BUILT FOR REAL TABLES
• Intelligently balanced random boards — no runaway number clusters
• Adjustable turn, roll, robber, discard, and opening-placement timers
• Friendly-robber option to protect newer players
• End-of-game stats with a dice-roll histogram
• Smooth card animations and always-clear turn prompts

Tessera is a love letter to classic hex-and-resource tabletop strategy, reimagined for your pocket. Gather your friends and start building.

## Rankings

- #868,977 — Overall

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