Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 03:57 pm
Mancala Adventures: Board Game – Casual Game Review
Mancala Adventures: Board Game is a Casual/Board/Entertainment game from ADG Technology Inc., first launched in 4th August 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 695+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mancala Adventures: Board Game Stand Out
Step into Mancala Adventures!
Experience a fresh take on Africa’s oldest and most beloved strategy board game!
Mancala, known by many names worldwide—such as Congklak, Bohnenspiel, Mangala, Kalaha, Oware (Awale), Sungka, Congkak, Ali Guli Mane, Pallanguzhi (Pallankuli), Bao game and more—is a strategy board game played across the globe. Count and distribute marbles, outplay your opponent, and claim victory in this exciting twist on a timeless classic!
Mancala can be played anytime, anywhere—online or offline!
Key Features:
ADVENTURE AWAITS!
Face diverse opponents in Mancala Adventures, each tougher than the last! Every 10 levels, take on a special boss with unique strategies. Can you outwit them all and claim victory?
CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS!
Play Mancala with your friends! Create a private room, send an invite, and put your skills to the test. Starting from level 9 onwards, play together and see who wins.
EXPLORE THE SAGA MAP
Challenge yourself in thrilling Mancala duels across a unique adventure map. Unlock exciting levels, earn epic rewards, and become a legend!
POWER-UPS & BOOSTERS
Classic Mancala just got an upgrade! Strategically use special power-ups and boosters to turn the tide in your favor and win more matches. Gather more marbles than your opponent to emerge victorious!
CUSTOMIZE YOUR LOOK
Unlock stylish cosmetics to personalize your character. Make your avatar as unique as your strategy!
LEADERBOARDS & TROPHIES
Play PvP matches to climb the ranks and show off your skills! Can you become the ultimate Mancala master?
LEARN & MASTER THE GAME
New to Mancala? No problem! Tap the (?) button to access the in-game rule book. Learn the rules and become a board game master!
So, what are you waiting for? Start your journey today and rule the board!
Download Mancala Adventures now and enjoy the ultimate board game experience!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mancala Adventures: Board Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd November 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Minor Bug fixes
- Security Updates
Download & Availability
Mancala Adventures: Board Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mancala Adventures: Board Game on App Store
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 love this game Im already pass level 265 but Im confused what are the yellow coins for Ive 1K but we dont know whats for.
Please this is a real good game and you dont need to spend a dime to have fun in this game. But please fix the bugs the stone will not change or move for you to be able to get something else.
We like the game .. Im on level 413 .. But its getting old .. You battling the same ppl .. And for the same rewards we already have .. Then theres these gold coins but what are they for ?. Also the shards .. You get them in the beginning but then it stops.. You don't get enough shards to even try to combine it to make another power.. We also dont like that you have to win in order to move to the next level .. Please do something about it or we will be deleting the game.. Its definitely can be worth 5 stars but right now it isnt.
We downloaded this game per another app we use and we have mix feelings about this game. It appears your opponent is a computer, but our problem is they always win because they use boosts & you cant level up unless you win which is unfair when you have to pay for boosts and the computer just uses them Plus the rules arent what we were taught as a child.
But the rules are completely different, the rules are one side but its still a fun game to play & easy to win. What bugs us is you only get 3 Lives and it takes forever. They are so thirsty to buy something from the shop that the badge notification will NEVER go away. We played a game lost 1/3 times. Replayed it bc we wanted 3 stars and we were out of lives. Thats stupid.
Hello . We have played up to level 450 . Are there going to be anymore levels after.
Overall the game is pretty good but its unclear on how you suppose to gain shards.
We really like this game, especially the randomized game plays. Really helps keep our mind going. And the ads just started up more for us but Ive just decided to get used to it as that is how developers are going to make money outside of in-game purchases. We did have an issue where one of the power ups have disappeared on our bar since like the 4th level (am now on 200+ levels). We have tried getting it put back but cant find out how. And we have 40 of this particular power up (the one that looks like a bomb that makes a group of marbles disappear). The bosses still use them so we dont think they just got rid of it. Would be helpful and appreciated if we could figure out how to get those back! EDIT: we saw that someone else was dealing with the same issue we were and the response suggested uninstalling and reinstalling the game. We figured that it would have our progress saved but it did not and just lost all of the stuff we had collected as well as all of the levels we had passed have yet to see if this fixed the issue with the power ups as we have none.
Its only giving us two moves options. Im not sure what happened to our back one space . Those must come in the chest as awards.
After updating the game we can no longer use our power-ups . We have tons but no option to use them. Ill also hop on the tutorial highlighting. We understand it being mandatory in the beginning but we're at level 80 and we're sure we already know how to play we don't need to be told.
We finished the game and its only 500 levels where is the rest?? Are you making more or what? We spent money on the game for no reason.
Made it to level 500, cant redeem our treasure chests and cant play anymore levels. Are there anymore levels to this game.
Is there a way to turn off the help highlighting the moves? Also to jump in with everyone else the vibrations do get old really quick. Also sometimes Ill play a game and then Ill have like a 2 minute add then another game and another add. Seems excessive. Giving it a few more days before we uninstall though.
We like playing this game late at night but the vibration of the stones hitting the pot is distracting our partner. Please add an option to turn them off.
Its an alright game. Just doesnt go by the rules we learned as a kid in any capacity. These rules feel like an easy way to make the game very one sided every time.
It wont let us play after level 5.
This new update took everything from our closet. Im in levels 200 so we had a lot of things and even got 3 out the 5 marbles sets and we lost everything except the level we were on. Thanks for fix all the other bugs but what about all our stuff.
There are a lot of bugs going on from the lives counter not working right to losing gems when trying to use them for extra lives. We love this game and dont want to delete it. Its so much fun!! Just wish the bugs could be taken care of.
We hate haptics! Let us turn them off.
We Downloaded This A Few Days Ago And Really Enjoy It But Literally Every Time we Lose A Match we Have To Close And ReOpen The App. Its So Frustrating Its Making us Want To Delete The App.
We were enjoying this game. However the new update deleted our game and reset it. Our daughter was playing it as well she has since deleted the game from her phone.
Met the app creator on a bus and he showed us this app! We love mancala in real life and this is the best online mancala game around.
Love this game! We have been playing level 30 over and over, and even if we win, theres a bug that doesnt allow us move past the first round of the game.
Its a great game but its stuck on Nani level – we hate to delete and lose our progress.
Our family loves this game. The gameplay is awesome and it would make an awesome board game as well. However, we cannot play other people and we cant get past Nani level bc it freezes. We have tried reloading and restarting devices and nothing works. Please find the update we need to truly enjoy this awesome game.
Love to see more African games in the App Store!!!! We are stuck on level 7 :-).
Good to see our this game on mobile.
Cool modern take on classic Mancala game – well done.
Great game but we think there should be an option to purchase the power cards.
Great game, builds up nice! However online play hasnt been working, and we are trying to humble our friend, is that being fixed soon.
We really enjoy games that challenge you, this you can sit for hours and just have allot of fun.
It's different and we like it. You can play on for hours with out being bored.
We finished it what am we suppose to do now.
This is a pretty good game. Ive read reviews from people who got used to the perks. However after being frustrated with them for over 400 levels we cant get used to them. We wish there was a way to disable them. The fun is leaking out of this game quickly.
The game is really good. You get uses to the powerups. But the ads are ridiculous! After every game its an ad no matter what. It just makes us want to close the game. Its screaming purchase! Purchase! Its so upsetting at this point.
It used to have multiplayer game. But seems like it vanished. Was more fun when it allowed to play with others.
Ive seen a lot of low reviews and its kind of surprising. At first, we hated the opponents power ups. We thought the game was the original game of Mancala so the use of power ups was confusing at first. However, once you realize how they work, its a fun game. We wish there was a game play where you also could just play the basic board game without the power ups as well though. Ive read a few reviews saying its impossible or really difficult, but Mancala is a puzzle game its not supposed to be easy. Its about strategy. And you can watch an ad for more power ups if you need, so we dont see it as a dealbreaker. Ive completed all levels right now so we can speak on it that its not impossible, you just gotta learn the power ups and use strategy. Its honestly fun, not super exciting but its not supposed to be. It makes time pass and its not stressful. Its genuinely our most played game on our phone. We also really love strategy and puzzle games so if youre more into action then this isnt for you.
We love this game. It has power up that comes in handy and you can make an avatar. We love that you get chests that have more items. We would recommend this game to anyone who loves board games with twists.
Love mancala and adding powerups is a cool idea except when you get a limited amount of them and have to watch ads or pay money for more, but the enemies get to use 1 of each every game.
Not boring like the other app games we like the challenge.
Im pretty sure they make it ridiculously hard on purpose in order to make more money. We have played many in app purchase games, but never have we played a game that was THIS hard in a way that makes it seem like the developers are purposefully making the level impossible to win in order to bait you to spend money on it. Because of how hard it is, you basically need to watch 16 ads before you win a single level. In order to avoid that, youd basically have to use & buy the powers every level, because unlike other in app purchases games, theyre 100% necessary to beating the levels on the first try; Ive never ever won a level past level 20 on the first try except for the one time we caved and used 2 of the 6 starting free powers they gave us. Why can the bots you play against use 3 powers a level but we have to pay money to use the same powers? No game Ive played with in app purchases (and again, Ive played a lot!) lets the bots use powers that are pay only for users beyond maybe once or on certain harder levels. This game lets them use all of them every single level. And also, if you want to win a single level in one sitting, you cant, because while the levels take 10+ tries, the lives run out after around 5 tries and you have to wait a while or watch an ad per life or pay to get more. While having lives is normal for this type of game, it doesnt usually take even close to more than 5 tries to win a level in other games. At some point a game becomes so hard that it becomes unfun. Its not like we were 100 levels in – it became impossibly hard by level 15-20, and we never got past level 40 because we had to replay each level 10+ times before we could win. While you might think Im just bad at this game, you can look at the other reviews saying the exact same thing. But even without that, as Ive said, Ive played numerous phone games and even other Mancala phone games and never had this much of a problem, so clearly something about this game is making it almost impossible to win without trying a bunch. We think the main thing making it so hard is the bots ability to basically cheat by using the powers all at once in one move. This makes it almost impossible to strategize your turn because the bots can make moves you cant possibly have predicted. They do this by using every single power to completely change the makeup of the board in a single turn and then gain 15+ points and there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. Plus, you cant strategize based on what happened last time you played the level because the same level changes set up every time you try again; not just who starts, not just what move the bot makes first, but even where the pieces are located. As we said, we play a lot of games that have in app purchases so dont get us wrong, we know this is par for the course in some ways; the app developers are always trying to get you to make a purchase to win a level. But its never been this bad, ever. Do not give this game your attention or your time. Playing this game will be frustrating, not enjoyable.
We really enjoyed the game its so fun to play.
Very nice to game.got a nice interface and very easy to start with.
Such a good fun little game, but siiio many ads.
We love it we finished all 1,000 levels hoping they make more we dont really like the battles there too easy.
Sometimes when we pick a token to use like boom, we pick the spot on our side and all the marbles move around and not explode.
We spend hours playing this game, we we have used our own money to advance in this game but the app itself is staring to disappoint us. Every time we open the app it takes forever to load and some time it doesnt at all. We opened the app yesterday and after saving up 60,000 in coins they were ALL completely gone. And when we play against, whats suppose to be online players, Im playing again the same 8 different people whos scores are always higher than ours which leads us to believe the online or vs version is just the computers also. We actually really enjoyed this app, Im not sure what happened to it.
Maybe we are more traditional. We feel like the use of bombs and switches and such are just silly ways the computer can beat you. We forget about them 90 percent of the time and dont enjoy using them ourselves. If they had to follow the actual rules it would not be so frustrating but it gets to a point in the game saying level progress makes it harder but in reality we cant even enjoy playing because the computer bombs us and switches so often its not a realistic experience and they just win the round by using the little extras.
Good game but make that game have 5 stars.
After playing this game for a few months and getting to level 500 the game just stopped working for us. It doesnt get passed the loadibg screen.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.165.2
- Size: 514.62 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: ADG Technology Inc.
Last updated: 3rd November 2025 | Genre: Casual, Board | Developer: ADG Technology Inc.