Last updated on November 29th, 2025 at 12:15 am
™ Gomoku – Entertainment Game Review
™ Gomoku is a Entertainment/Board/Puzzle game from VM Mobile Team, first launched in 6th May 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,823+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes ™ Gomoku Stand Out
Dive into Gomoku: The Classic Five in a Row, Now on Your Phone!
Explore the timeless strategy of Gomoku, also known as Five in a Row, Caro, Omok, Renju, or Gobang. This classic board game, traditionally played on a 15×15 intersection Go board, challenges players to align five stones in an unbroken row to claim victory.
Gomoku brings this captivating game right to your phone, retaining the authentic feel of playing with black and white Go pieces. Whether it's family game night or a solo challenge against diverse AI opponents, this mobile version caters to all. With five difficulty levels ranging from Easy to Expert, even the most skilled players will find themselves tested.
Each victory in Gomoku is not just a mark of pride but also earns you experience points, increasing from +1 for Easy to a challenging +7 for Expert wins.
Key Features:
- Convenient Undo function.
- Ability to Save and Load games in progress.
- A range of AI difficulties, offering five levels to test your skills.
- Timer-based gameplay for added excitement.
- Custom board editor for a personalized gaming experience.
- A variety of board and piece sets to choose from.
- Zoom in and out for the best view.
- Multiple board sizes for varied gameplay: select from 9×9, 11×11, 13×13, and the classic 15×15.
Embrace the free-style version of Gomoku supported in this game, where forming a row of five or more stones leads you to victory. Get ready to enjoy the strategic depth of Gomoku on your phone!"
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, ™ Gomoku is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 31st October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- New background themes.
- New piece sets and board sets.
- New feature: Board Editor.
- Tutorial feature added for new players.
- Custom player avatars and sound effects.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Download & Availability
™ Gomoku is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
To many ads and its not a one star its half a star.
Its a fun game, but we think the easy mode should be a bit easier. For beginners like us, it took a lot of practice to win instead of letting us win a could be be able to move up. Also, there should be an undo button because its very easy to misclick.
Great game but way too many ads. You get one free undo per game then after that you have to watch an ad to undo each move. So cumbersome when you are playing against computer and want to backtrack to learn from your mistakes! Every time you start a new game you have to see an ad. And on expert mode playing against computer the computer takes a few seconds before moving. Overall just lots of waiting and not enough playing.
We can bear an add here and there. What we cannot stand is adds that you cannot even close.
Advertisements literally blocked us from taking action in the game. Restarted app with add on screen and unable to bypass it. Reloaded a third time and was able to get one move in before we had the same issue.
We understand an ad here or there, but theres one every time you start a new match or change settings.
Played so many different mobile games. Most games (free) will give you an ad here or there. After playing for a few days we cant stand the non-stop ads. They also pause your music for EVERY SINGLE AD. Too much for us. Deleted.
Too many ads, basically an unenjoyable experience. An ad after every game even if it lasted few seconds.
This is an awesome game to play when you have some down time. If you like a mentally challenging game… This is it!!!! We have greatly improved as a player ever since we started playing. The only improvement we can suggest is adding different board styles and piece colors. Other than that ITS A GREAT GAME.
Very old traditional board game. Played it as a kid a lot and Im not too shabby at it. The modes do not to make too much rhyme and reason. Sometimes hard is easier to win than easy. If that might be true, then Id like the developers to design proper differences. It seems like the computer plays really hard and then super soft to let you win. No matter what mode you are in. And then yes, on a phone its super small, tapping wrong happens. Other than that … Im happy we found the game.
Everything we do theres is and AD! And the AD has fake X button! We cant even close the ADs without restarting our game.
The only thing keeping this from 5 stars to us is that when you need to put your phone down or do something else, sometimes the timer will keep going so you either win or lose incorrectly.
Good game but we suggest you use it on your iPad instead of our phone because our finger is a little too wide ….. We get the wrong square a lot.
We would like to see more different styles of board colors.
We love the game. We wish more people played it. Im addicted. Im ok with it not getting that many updates or support. But the achievements at least have to be updated when you complete them. We have almost 30 wins and it says we havent achieved our first win yet. Please fix our favorite game.
Great game just a lot of adds every time we play a round we gotta watch a add.
The computer plays an excellent game and does note repeat itself. Our only complaint is that if you touch the wrong place you can lose immediately. . . . ( ). There needs to be an option to disallow 3-3 combinations. 3-3 option.
We paid the $3.99 to get rid of the ads but they still keep popping up. Whats going on.
We love this game and everything but the very easy mode is just the robot placing spots all around the board and not even playing and easy mode is just beating us every . We think you should maybe make the very easy mode harder and easymode a little less hard. Great game otherwise.
A great game that is fun and challenging.
Try expert mode its really easy but it might be nervewrecking.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2750
- Size: 64.31 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: AR, MY, KM, CS, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KK, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: VM Mobile Team
Last updated: 31st October 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Board | Developer: VM Mobile Team