Recess: Board Games
Two phones, one game
Free
New: Go and Mandarin Squares (Ô ăn quan). Two phones, one game: chess, Xiangqi, Battleship 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.
• Go: Black and white stones, a few simple rules, and a game you can play for life.
• Mandarin Squares (Ô ăn quan): The Vietnamese schoolyard game of sowing stones and taking mandarins.
• 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
• Two new games: Go and Mandarin Squares (Ô ăn quan), with a friend or the robot.
• Waiting alone at your table? Tap Join a friend to go to theirs, and tap the code to copy it.
• Mark your favourite games and put them in your own order on Home.
• Each game remembers its options, and one tap resets them all.
• The last move is easier to see, in the colour of the player who made it.
• The robot plays at a pace you can follow.
• Chess and Chinese chess start with no clock. Turn it on in the options.
• Two phones reconnect faster after one sleeps, and a game keeps going if a phone locks mid-move.
• Soft new sounds, and 15 colours to pick yours from.
• Recess has its own address: joinrecess.app. Old links still work.
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
- 23.9 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
- © 2026 Tech Tips VN
