Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 10:45 am
Game of Ur – Board Game Review
Game of Ur is a Board/Racing game from Mike Green, first launched in 10th November 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 18+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Game of Ur Stand Out
The Royal Game of Ur dates back to 3,000 BC. The rules for this game were lost. Archeologists uncovered game boards, but the rules for the game remained a mystery. In the early 1980s, Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum, translated a cuneiform tablet that revealed the rules for the game.
When it's your turn, tap on the piece you want to move or on the square you wish to move to. Pieces are moved one square for each die that lands with a white spot showing. The goal is to be the first player to move all of their pieces through the course. If your token lands on a square marked with a rosette, you get another turn. If your piece lands on your opponent's piece, you send it back to the start. A piece on the center rosette is safe from capture.
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Game of Ur is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th December 2022
Recent improvements include:
Adding gesture to start a new game. To start a new game, drag your piece back to its starting position on the left side.
Download & Availability
Game of Ur 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:
We've read the history of the game, and this has helped us to learn the strategies. It's a flawless translation. The one thing we'd like to see is a way to reset the statistics. We played it on easy for 15 games and won them all, but it's retained that ratio when playing on a more difficult setting. Edit: the developer got back to us and is looking in to inproving scoring. Which is cool. We're still playing it, have refined our strategies and it's still very fun.
Impressive digital version of an ancient Sumerian board game. Just needs an option to reset game scores.
This is a great app, we just wish it allowed a 2 player mode.
Light weight so you can play all day. Hard mode is nice and challenging. Dear developer: we would happily buy an IAP for the advanced game using Finkels rules.
This is a decent app. Its cheap. It doesnt collect data about you, advertise to you, or harass you for in-app purchases. It wont let you start a new game on command, though. Also, it counts a win once at the end of a game and after closing the app and re-opening it starts a position from the end of the last game and counts another point for the winner. But for those drawbacks, Id recommend it to friends.
The built is perfect and nice. If add multiplayer on same device or even better is through LAN would make it perfect. We are not expecting an online version though.
It's a pretty simple game, easy to learn and easy to wile away some time. It doesn't drain the battery much, either, which is nice. Easy difficulty is very easy, Medium is alright, Hard is extremely frustrating. It is very obvious that the computer's rolls are rigged. Once you move a piece one step outside of your staging area, if the computer had any pieces inside their staging area there is an 80% chance they will capture your piece, even if it requires two rolls to do it. Any time any of our pieces were within 4 steps ahead of the Hard AI's pieces it is almost guaranteed that piece will be captured immediately. Every win we have had against the Hard AI has felt like the game had just decided to give us a pity-win and never lets the Hard AI return their last piece.
Fell in love with this game a few years ago but have yet to find anywhere online to play obviously Ive only found one other app to play but its mediocre at best. We LOVE this app. We consider ourselves an ok player but as it is now since Ive had this app for a year or so the score is app=5 us=37. If we needed to complain its just a little easy and frustrating to win almost every time. Maybe we are that good hahaa. The app is incredible though. Hats off to whomever in charge of that.
The dice are definitely -not- random! This is the most frustrating aspect of games like this, where the difficulty is determined by how badly the dice are loaded, not by the actual skill of the opponent. We dont understand why developers choose to do this, but its the one thing we wish we could change. Otherwise, this app is great.
This is a decent app. Its cheap. It doesnt collect data about you, advertise to you, or harass you for in-app purchases. It wont let you start a new game on command, though. Also, it counts a win once at the end of a game and after closing the app and re-opening it starts a position from the end of the last game and counts another point for the winner. But for those drawbacks, Id recommend it to friends.
Im so glad we finally found a good version of Ur for our phone. Ive tried others, and this is the best one for sure. The premium price is fair, no ads, no IAP, no tracking. It takes up almost no space and uses very little battery. The UI and design are really well done. And we love the flick option of flicking your opponents piece off the board if you want extra fun removing them, it somehow gives you extra satisfaction, its a small but playful option that adds a extra fun. Also, the dice rolls do seem totally random to us, like real dice, and not all apps are good at that. This one gets that right. The AI is good too, it seems balanced and smart. As a plus, the game saves your place when you close the app. Perfect for when you have to go back to work. Thank you developer for bringing this game to the phone so fairly and so beautifully. Getting this game made our day.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5
- Size: 2.98 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Mike Green]()
Last updated: 29th December 2022 | Genre: Board, Racing | Developer: Mike Green