A Royal Game of Ur

The world's oldest board game on your real table — the British Museum artifact in true 3D, with an immersive Mesopotamian night and a cunning AI opponent.

Four and a half thousand years before chess had rules, the people of Mesopotamia were playing the Royal Game of Ur. On Apple Vision Pro, the world's oldest board game sits on your actual table — a volumetric 3D board, faithfully modelled on the famous artifact in the British Museum, that you place, move, and play in your own space.

Race your seven pieces along the board, roll the four ancient tetrahedral dice, capture your opponent on the bridge, and claim the rosettes for extra turns. The rules follow Irving Finkel's celebrated reconstruction, deciphered from a Babylonian cuneiform tablet — so you're playing the game the way it was played in 2600 BCE.

FEATURES • A real presence in your room: the board is a volumetric window you can pick up and place anywhere — on your desk, your dining table, your floor • Step into Mesopotamia: an immersive night courtyard with mudbrick walls, torchlight, a star-filled sky and desert wind • Museum-grade detail: shell plaques, lapis lazuli, red limestone and gold, recreated tile by tile from artifact 1928,1009.378 • Three AI opponents, from the forgiving Nice Ancestor to the ruthless Overlord with genuine lookahead strategy • Look-and-tap play with glowing move highlights — learn in one minute with built-in illustrated rules and a touch of dry Mesopotamian humour • A history lesson included: discover the story of the game's excavation and decipherment

No ads. No account. No data collection. Just the oldest game in the world, floating in yours.