Recess: Board Games
Two phones, one game
Free
Two phones, one game. Chess, Xiangqi, Battleship, Five in a Row and more, with a friend or the robot, and no internet needed.
Recess turns your phone into a shelf of brain games and party favourites you already know, to play with friends nearby or far away, or against the robot when you're on your own.
Open a table and send the code, let a friend scan the QR code, or find a table nearby on the same Wi-Fi or over Bluetooth, and you're playing. Nearby needs no internet at all. No account. No sign-up.
Familiar games, including:
• Chess: Full rules, an optional clock, with a friend or the robot.
• Chinese Chess (Xiangqi): River and palace included, with a friend or the robot.
• Battleship: Hide your fleet, call coordinates and sink theirs.
• Plane Battle: Hide your planes and find the heads of theirs.
• Five in a Row: First to line up five wins.
• Tic-Tac-Toe: Quick, simple, and always "one more round".
• Rock Paper Scissors: No more arguing over who threw late.
• Sudoku: Solve alone, race a friend, or solve one grid together.
• Number Hunt: Find 1, 2, 3… faster than your friend.
• Number Match: Match two equal numbers or two that add up to 10.
• Dominoes: Match the ends and be first to play your last tile.
Need dice? Recess has them too: standard, fish-prawn-crab, and 4, 8, 10, 12 and 20-sided dice. Everyone at the table sees the same roll.
Made for playing together
Share one code and you're in.
Chat while you play, switch games any time, or play the robot when no one is around.
The library keeps growing.
No ads. No accounts. No tracking across other apps. Open Recess and play.
Ratings & Reviews
• Play on the same Wi-Fi with no internet, and find a friend's table in Nearby.
• Private tables: a friend joins only by typing the code from your screen.
• Pick up a game you left unfinished, with your friend or against the robot.
• Look back on every round you played, and replay its moves up to 10× faster.
• Sounds for every move and moment, and background music you can choose.
• Pick your colour, and see whose turn it is at a glance.
• Stickers now play beside your friend's name, so they never cover the board.
• A fresh look: three tabs, How to play you can swipe through, new themes in Appearance, and boards that use the whole screen.
The developer, Hoang Nguyen Nhu, 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
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Hoang Nguyen Nhu
- Size
- 23.1 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
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