# Catchup - Abstract Strategy

> Board

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id718429890](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id718429890)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id718429890`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Martin Grider
- **Category:** Board
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (11 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-17
- **First published:** 2014-08-07
- **Size:** 4.77 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/catchup-abstract-strategy/id718429890)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://abstractpuzzle.com/privacy/](http://abstractpuzzle.com/privacy/)

## Description

Catchup is a simple game of surprising turnarounds. 

"Catchup is as elegant as a game can reasonably be, presented in a marvelously user-friendly way.” -Pocket Tactics (5-star review)

"If you're even a little bit into strategy games, you need to get some Catchup all over your mobile device." -Touch Arcade (4 & 1/2 star review)

Can you have the largest group at the end of the game? Connect your hexes to master this beautiful abstract strategy game.

Features:
- an interactive tutorial to teach you how to play
- a challenging AI opponent whose difficulty changes as you play
- online turn-based multiplayer via Game Center
- two-player pass-and-play on the same device
- beautiful and haunting music by Tori Kamal
- minimalist graphics with customizable colors
- Game Center Leaderboards & Achievements
- simple and easy to learn rules and gameplay
- difficult to master strategy

Here are all the rules:
1. One player plays all the hexes of one color and the other player plays all the hexes of the other color. The first player begins by claiming 1 empty hex for their color.

2. Starting with the second player, each player must claim 1 or 2 hexes on their turn.

3. If the largest group of hexes at the end of a turn is larger than the largest group of hexes at the beginning of that turn (regardless of color), the next player may claim up to 3 hexes on their turn. (This does not apply after the first player claims a single hex in step 1 above.)

4. The game ends when the board is full. The player with the largest group wins. If the players’ largest groups are the same size, compare their second-largest groups, and so on, until you come to a pair which aren’t the same size. Whoever owns the larger of the two wins.

Catchup is an original Board Game designed by Nick Bentley.

## Rankings

- #314,511 — Overall

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