Ludéum: Ancient Board Games
Ludus, Hnefatafl, Ur, & more
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
13 games with centuries of history on realistic boards. Play solo against rivals from their era, with a friend or online, and learn with a tutorial in every game.
Ludéum brings together 13 board games with centuries of history, from the Royal Game of Ur to Viking Hnefatafl. Ready to play on your iPhone and iPad.
• Realistic boards: wood, stone, terracotta and lapis lazuli. Drag the pieces, roll the dice and hear it all just like at a real table.
• Variants for every game: pick the rules you prefer.
• Play solo, with someone beside you or online: live or turn-based, at your own pace.
• Rivals from each game's era: Moctezuma, Aristotle and many more, from Easy to Hard.
• A tutorial in every game: learn by playing in a couple of minutes.
• Medals, achievements and tournaments: weekly and monthly challenges, plus Game Center leaderboards.
• No ads and no accounts: every game is free.
THE GAMES
• Antiquity: the Royal Game of Ur (Mesopotamia, c. 2600 BC), Pente Grammai (Greece), and Latrunculi, XII Scripta and Three Men's Morris (Rome).
• Middle Ages: Hnefatafl, the Viking king's table, and Nine Men's Morris.
• Peoples of the World: Oware / Mancala (Africa), Patolli (Mesoamerica), Kōnane (Hawaii) and Tavli (Greece).
• Cards: Conquián, the Mexican game that gave birth to rummy, and Cribbage, the English game of cards and pegs.
VARIANTS: YOU CHOOSE THE RULES
Many of these games reached us with incomplete rules or in several versions. In Ludéum you pick the one you want: Ur with Irving Finkel's rules, 9 × 9 Tablut or 11 × 11 Hnefatafl, Oware or Kalah, Tavli as Portes, Plakoto or Fevga, Conquián with a Spanish or French deck, and more.
PLAY YOUR WAY
• Single player: every game has three rivals from its era, one per difficulty. Moctezuma awaits you at Patolli; Aristotle at Pente Grammai.
• Two players on the same iPhone or iPad.
• Online with Game Center: find an opponent or invite friends, live or turn-based.
LEARN WITHOUT READING A MANUAL
Every game has a short tutorial to learn by playing, an animated explanation and the full rules. Tap the "i" button to see its history and photos of real boards and pieces, and find out what is documented and what is still debated.
MEDALS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND TOURNAMENTS
• A weekly and a monthly challenge, with stamps for your yearly collection.
• Weekly tournaments: the Weekly League and the Game of the Week, with Game Center leaderboards.
• Medals and achievements for trying every game, playing online and beating the toughest rival.
MADE WITH CARE
• Two board styles, Illustrated and Realistic, plus backgrounds for every game.
• Natural sounds and original music for every game.
• Dark mode.
• With iCloud, your progress follows you to all your devices.
• Become a Patron with a single, optional purchase and get the Museum board, emblems, special pieces and dice. Every game is free to play.
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Information
- Seller
- Carlos Carmona
- Size
- 149.5 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Patron $6.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Carlos Carmona
