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A collection by Limina Oblita
Forgotten Games
Games worth returning to.
Forgotten Games brings seven remarkable strategy board games into the present on iPhone and iPad—made clear, tactile and ready to play. Start with a move, then travel beyond the board into the people, places and histories that shaped the game.
Available now for iPhone & iPad · Oware included · No subscriptions
Seven games · One iOS appLearn as you playPass & Play on one device
Designed for iPhone and iPad
Made for the screen. At home around a table.
Pass one device
Take turns on the same iPhone or iPad. The digital board stays at the centre of the conversation.
Keep the story in the app
Every game has an introduction, its selected ruleset and attribution available alongside play.
Play through Game Center
Choose Game Center when you want to play online using your Apple gaming identity.
Connect nearby
Pair two nearby devices for direct, encrypted multiplayer when you are together.
Available together in one app
Seven games. One collection for iPhone and iPad.
Sow seeds, hunt with tigers, escape with a king or turn a crowded board into a trap. Every app edition opens with play—and leads into a story worth knowing.
Included with the app
Oware
Akan traditions · West Africa
Lift one handful, sow it around the board and discover how generosity can become a trap.
Enter the game →
Available in the app
Shisima
Tiriki · Western Kenya
Six pieces are already moving. Can you seize the centre and complete the only line that counts?
Enter the game →
Available in the app
Tsoro Yematatu
Zimbabwe
Chase one empty point around a triangle, leaping pieces without ever taking them.
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Available in the app
Seega
Egypt · Sinai · a Sai Island study
Pack twenty-four stones around one empty centre—then release the pressure and hunt by flanking.
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Available in the app
Bagh-Chal
Nepal
Hunt with four tigers—or turn twenty vulnerable goats into a cage with no door.
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Available in the app
Kōnane
Hawaiʻi
Start with nowhere to move. Remove two stones, open a path and let the captures reshape the board.
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Available in the app
Hnefatafl
Modern Fetlar edition · Shetland
Cut a path from throne to corner for one hunted king—or close the ring before he escapes.
Enter the game →Free games on the web
Two games you can also play in your browser
These browser editions sit alongside Forgotten Games, now available for iPhone and iPad. Eleusis also has its own fuller native iPhone and iPad game, Eleusis Axiom, available on the App Store.
Free web · iOS available
Choose how to play
Eleusis
Can you crack the secret rule? Choose an induction challenge free in your browser, or download the fuller Eleusis Axiom experience for iPhone and iPad.
Free web game · available now
Play Sona
Sona
Trace an unbroken path through a field of dots and discover the logic hidden inside the drawing. This is a source-labelled game adaptation inspired by the living sand-drawing tradition practised by Lunda Cokwe and neighbouring peoples in eastern Angola—not an official or practitioner-led teaching.
Play first. Then follow the story.
Not relics. Not inventions.
Forgotten Games treats play as a way in. We name the ruleset being played, keep source and attribution close, and make clear where a modern presentation is a choice rather than a historical certainty.
One app for iPhone and iPad
Meet Forgotten Games.
Download Forgotten Games now. Oware is included, and each of the other six games is available as a one-time in-app purchase. There are no subscriptions.
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