# Royal Game of Ur (AG) — user reviews > 153 indexed App Store user reviews of Royal Game of Ur (AG) by Sullivan Bousiniere, rated 4.59/5 from 453 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/royal-game-of-ur-ag/id1455653921/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/royal-game-of-ur-ag/id1455653921.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 338 · 4★ 78 · 3★ 19 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of Royal Game of Ur (AG)? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Wonderful, fun game - 👍 Entertaining, extremely fun games - 👍 Great game, worth the money - 👍 Aesthetically pleasing, strategically gratifying - 👍 Thrilling, exciting game - 👍 Horribly addictive, deliciously vicious - 👍 Awesome, addictive game - 👍 Beautiful, atmospheric, and engaging - 👍 Excellent reproduction of the classic game - 👍 Smooth gameplay, fair dice probability - 👍 Impressive boards and customization options - 👍 Responsive developer support **Cons** - 🐛 Periodic extra rolls for no reason, ruins strategy - 💰 Overly monetized, tries to squeeze every dime - 🤖 Unfair AI, blatantly cheats - 🐛 Ads don't get removed after paying - 🐛 Glitchy, crashes and freezes frequently - 🐛 Online features broken after updates - 🤖 Dice results or AI need tweaking, feels rigged - 🐛 Offline mode doesn't work - 🤖 AI is too aggressive, not strategic - 💰 Overpriced subscription model **Commonly reported bugs** - Opponent gets multiple turns in a row - Progress and unlocks disappearing after updates - Crashes when reaching victory screen - Online games freezing or not syncing - Inability to add friends or play with them **Most requested features** - Geolocation support for festival mode - Online multiplayer with friends - Controller support - Difficulty settings for AI - Ability to choose player colors - Customizable turn timers ## Newest reviews (16 of 153) ### 2/5 — Game playstyle *2026-01-14, version 3.2.34* Game is well playing no problem about playing-wise. On the other hand “game” is rigged at hard level. Always make dice rolls to more equal play for both side. If you play very well the game slow your moves. ### 2/5 — I don’t understand these 5-star reviews *2024-08-24, version 3.2.34* The gameplay would be adequate except my opponent and I periodically get extra rolls for no reason. That ruins the strategy of the game. Also the game tries to monetize everything. It’s such a simple game guys, lay off trying to squeeze every dime out of it. Do not recommend. ### 3/5 — We all live in the northern hemisphere now *2024-08-07, version 3.2.34* I wish there was some way to use the festival mode that was appropriate to my location July in the southern hemisphere is not summer, it’s the coldest time of year And I can’t find any online games Other that, simple gameplay, decent graphics, but annoying lack of geolocation ### 4/5 — Add controller support *2023-02-02, version 2.3.7* I would like controller support for my backbone one controller so that I don’t have to take it off ### 3/5 — It USED to be fun… *2023-01-14, version 2.3.7* Before, you had the option to choose the difficulty. Now, your opponent just gets stronger and stronger until it’s literally unplayable. ### 4/5 — Nice game, ads too long *2023-01-09, version 2.3.7* The title says it all. ### 5/5 — Great simple game *2022-12-27, version 2.3.7* Love the game play, usually comes down to the last few moves. ### 5/5 — All around great! *2022-09-16, version 2.2.2* Beautiful design, great game, good AI. Developers did a great job with this! ### 4/5 — Serious Bootup Issues *2022-09-06, version 2.2.2* I really want to 5-star this game, in fact the whole Ancient Games suite. When it works, it is superb, and a barrel of fun. But since the dev recently began tooling the online player and login options, I’ve not been able to get past the “orobouros” screen. I’ve even reinstalled it several times. I do hope this issue can be resolved, perhaps with a less Unity intensive option. ### 4/5 — Great fun! *2022-08-17, version 2.2.2* I really like the app. I love that they designed the dice to be random like dice really would be. Makes it very fun and balanced. It’d be great if the ai had a difficulty setting. Right now the ai only focuses on the lead tokens unless forced to and it makes it a little too easy to win. My only ‘criticism’ is that the exp system is never consistently rewarded. When I play a random player and by chance win, the game says I won 150 exp but I never see it actually go through in the game’s leveling system. Otherwise i am having a lot of fun playing the game and highly recommend it! ### 4/5 — Historic *2022-08-05, version 2.2.2* A great game with both of the hypothetical rule sets included. Hours of strategy and fun. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2022-07-30, version 2.2.2* This app is perfect, I would recommend it to anyone. ### 5/5 — Game with fitting artistry. *2022-07-12, version 2.1.6* Wonderfully executed both UI/UX, and artistry fitting of an ancient game. Love the subtle atmosphere created by the soundscape as well. Love that I can play real players as I live alone and am older with no friends or family anymore. ### 5/5 — Love this game *2022-07-03, version 2.1.6* I’ve been playing for years. I love ancient Egyptian games like Senet, royal game of Ur, jackals but this is my favorite. ### 5/5 — Awesome Games... *2022-03-14, version 2.0.72* ...from an awesome dev! Dude, do you do all the design, strategizing and coding yourself? These are a notch above, way above. Hope you win some awards for your passion. Need more of a bio on your website... but then again, the mystery is working for you... ### 5/5 — Against the AI *2022-03-11, version 2.0.71* Love this game. But the most recent update broke the AI. When playing solo, the AI is taking multiple turns in a row. EDIT: Yay! The AI is fixed. After updating, had to let it play one more ‘corrupted’ game first. Once that was done, played again and it was good! Thanks for being on top of this! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Garbage *2024-06-26, version 3.2.34* When you play against a computer that controls the dice rolls you’re bound to lose. Pretty blatant at this point. ### 1/5 — Ads don’t get removed if you pay. *2024-04-11, version 3.2.34* If you pay the fee to get the ads removed they are not removed. ### 1/5 — Ruined by adverts that take ages to play. *2023-09-01, version 2.3.7* Ruined by adverts that take ages to play. I understand this is a light version but if the developers do not give you time to try the game out before playing rubbish irrelevant adverts that ruin the trial then I’m out. ### 1/5 — Update removed the chance for online games. *2023-03-03, version 2.3.7* Before this was updated/overhauled it was possible to play online against others. This has been removed. Playing against the AI is only fun for a few games before it grows old. ### 1/5 — What happened with that last update? *2022-03-07, version 2.0.70* This was a fun game until the last update. Now when I play against AI the whole thing seems to have gone rogue. The opponent gets multiple turns while mine are skipped. Not at all happy anymore. ### 1/5 — Don’t pay…save your money *2021-12-30, version 2.0.55* Senet or Scripta doesn’t work at all. I spent $29 on ad removal for a year…now I get to stare at the game details for 2 mins before I can continue. The graphics and play are pretty good, no complaints there. It really chaps my hide that I paid for three games but only got one….hence the one star. ### 1/5 — It’s not working! *2021-10-19, version 2.0.40* It was bad, but working version of a great game before the update, now it bad, not working version of great game. Sad ### 1/5 — Crashes every time I play my friend! *2021-05-14, version 2.0.39* This game used to be awesome, now, every time I invite a friend to play Ur, I move then it freezes. I can’t even abandon! Please fix it! ### 1/5 — Update Ate my Loot *2020-12-04, version 2.0.8* New update eliminated all of my levels, boards, pawns, dice. Too frustrating to start over at square one. Loved the old game but I think I will abandon it now. No telling if a future update will do the same thing. Your progress isn’t safe. ### 1/5 — Game locks up iPad at point of VICTORY SCREEN *2020-12-02, version 2.0.8* After I won my first game and watched ad, VICTORY SCREEN CAME UP with explanation of why you have to watch ads. At this point the game is locked and only way to replay game is delete app and reload app. FIX IT. SORRY YOU DESERVE 1 star rating for this blunder. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Wonderful *2026-01-21, version 3.2.34* A wonderful fun game ### 5/5 — Entretaining *2025-08-31, version 3.2.34* Always a fan of these apps reviving these extremely fun games ### 5/5 — Great game *2025-08-25, version 3.2.34* I just found out this game existed. It was worth a few dollars to get rid of ads. Played my wife on two player today, and it worked well. Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Great game *2024-01-15, version 3.2.34* Love the history and love the newest update. I recommend this game. ### 5/5 — Rating this Excellent Game *2023-10-24, version 2.3.7* Hi, I absolutely love this game! It is so similar to backgammon, except the Mesopotamians developed this version of the game first! What a wonderful interface, and the calibration of dice probability is very fair! I will be sure to download your other games! Thank you! ### 5/5 — Brings back memories of past lives *2023-08-06, version 2.3.7* JK. Lots of fun. Game play is good. Love the graphics. As authentic as a computer game based on a 4500 year old board game can be, I imagine. ### 5/5 — Amazing ancient game *2023-07-26, version 2.3.7* Great ### 5/5 — An aesthetically pleasing and gratifyingly strategic game *2023-05-23, version 2.3.7* The free “base game” is fun, and as you advance, a small fee will allow for lots of ways to increase difficulty, try out different game rules, and explore the gorgeous game boards. ### 5/5 — Ur *2023-05-04, version 2.3.7* Gotta love it! ### 5/5 — Just like the one that my… *2023-01-19, version 2.3.7* Great-great-great-great-great -great-great-great-great -great-great-great-great -great-great-great-great -great-great-great-great -great-great-great-great -great-great-great-great -great-great-great-great -great-great-great-great -great-great-great-grandparents used to play! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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