Red Messiah
RedMessiah Boardgame Companion
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Humanity's Last Hope Against the Machine
Red Messiah is the official companion app for the tabletop board game "Red Messiah: Mars Colony AGI". Place your iPad in the middle of the table, scan physical cards with QR codes, and lead your faction through the crisis of a rogue artificial intelligence threatening the Mars colony.
This app is a companion to the physical board game. The Red Messiah playing card deck is REQUIRED to play. Without the cards, the app cannot be used as a standalone game.
For 1-9 players. No internet required. No accounts. No in-app purchases.
WHAT IS RED MESSIAH?
Red Messiah: Mars Colony AGI is a strategic board game for 1 to 9 players. You are colonists on Mars where an artificial general intelligence has gone rogue. Each round, you balance research, production, safety, and morale while the AI grows more powerful. Cooperate to save the colony - or let competing agendas tear it apart.
The app replaces the need for a game master and complex bookkeeping. It tracks resources, phases, votes, and events automatically so you can focus on strategy and social play.
ON-DEVICE AI NARRATION
On supported iPads (newer models with sufficient memory, such as M-series), Red Messiah runs a small language model directly on the device to narrate key moments of your game - turning votes, crises, and faction decisions into atmospheric flavour text in real time. Everything runs locally. Nothing leaves your iPad. On older iPads the app still plays in full; only the AI narration is disabled.
HOW IT WORKS
- Place the iPad in the centre of the table
- Each player receives physical game cards with QR codes
- Scan action cards to play them, vote cards to cast votes
- The app handles all rules, calculations, and phase transitions
- An adaptive soundtrack reacts to the state of the game
KEY FEATURES
12 Unique Factions
Choose from 12 factions, each with distinct abilities and play styles - from the pragmatic Engineers to the secretive Quantum Veil Syndicate.
Legacy System
Your actions echo across sessions. Earn legacy points through projects, faction abilities, and global contributions. The player with the highest legacy becomes the Champion.
QR Card Scanning
No fiddly menus - scan physical cards with the iPad camera. Action, policy, project, and vote cards all work via QR codes.
Dynamic Events
Random events shake up every game. Crises demand cooperation, opportunities reward the bold, and the AI threat level keeps everyone on edge.
Voting & Politics
Propose policies that affect the entire colony. Every player votes - alliances form, promises are made and broken. The Influence Leader wields the power of legislation.
Tiered Projects
Fund and build colony projects across three tiers. The Production Leader proposes, others fund. Completed projects grant powerful bonuses to proposer and funders alike.
Adaptive Soundtrack
The music shifts dynamically with the game state - from calm colony management to tense danger themes as the AI threat escalates, to heroic crescendos in pivotal moments.
Fully Offline
No server, no internet, no cloud. Everything runs locally on your iPad. Your game, your data, your rules.
REQUIREMENTS
- An iPad (landscape orientation, iPad-only app)
- The physical Red Messiah card set with QR codes (REQUIRED)
- 1-9 players ready to save - or doom - Mars
- A newer iPad (e.g. M-series) is recommended for on-device AI narration
Developed by Mathias Pechinger- 7Wolf Studios.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- The in-app rulebook now loads the latest version from the website, with an offline copy as fallback.
- New skip-phase confirmation to prevent accidental phase skips.
- Improved AI narration quality and added skip buttons for narrator events.
- Fixed German rulebook typos.
- Polished confirmation dialog sizing so button labels always fit.
The developer, Mathias Pechinger, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Mathias Pechinger
- Size
- 292.5 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Contests
Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Horror/Fear Themes
- Copyright
- © 7Wolf Studios - Mathias Pechinger