Royal Game of Ur

Sullivan Bousiniere

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

If you play more than one of my Ancient Games, I suggest you delete the individual apps and install the main one (Ancient Games). It will allow you to play them all and save disk storage.

The past is full of fascinating board games that haves been mostly forgotten. The Ancient Games collection aims to resurrect them as a meticulously crafted mix between what a player wants from an historical game and what he/she expects of a modern application.

-Play against the IA, friends and random players from around the world.
-Play Online & Offline.
-Multiple collectibles : boards, game pieces, dice, nameplates, etc.
-Challenges (Fun rule variants)
-Free cloudsave across the collection : your progress in one game is available in all the others.
-Much more features to come!
-Languages : English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Russian.

Currently, the collection is comprised of four games : the Royal Game of Ur, Senet, XII Scripta and Puluc, but 40 games are in the works!
Each game will be added to the Ancient Games app and will have its own individual app as well.

The privacy policy has been updated in accordance to the latest data protection laws.

Ratings and reviews

I'm convinced that at least within AI matches, the tetrahedron rolls are not perfectly random. I am able to predict rolls way too often. The AI too often conveniently rolls enough to knock my pieces off or get to the flowers. It's also exceptionally rare for me to go first in a game. I like the game a lot, but sometimes it feels rigged. I should not be able to predict what the AI rolls so much as I do.

No phone app like this should have an always-online requirement. In order to play games with progress unlocks, you need to play online, with an account specific to this app. The developer could have at least used google games api, but no. If you are somewhere without internet connection (or if there are server issues, like currently) you will not be able to play games using the progress unlocks from your account. There are much better versions of Ur on the play store, download those instead.

Excellent RGoU experience on Android. A lot of work and polish has been put into this app. 1 star off because the game is too expensive. I hate ads, and I'm happy to pay for ad free, but $12 is a lot. Similar games ask $2-6 to remove ads. The unlimited license ($54.99) initially seemed like a good value for ad free and other perks across all of the dev's other games, but not all games are available now, and thus not worth it. I may consider the unlimited plan again when the other games release.

What’s new

This is a small maintenance update to handle new versions of Android.
A major update with new content, major bugfixes and simplified systems is coming in the next few months.