Runetafl: Viking Chess

Runetafl: Viking Chess

Hnefatafl · Tafl Board Game

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Released
July 24, 2026
Updated
November 3, 2026

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Runetafl is Hnefatafl – "Viking Chess": the ancient, asymmetric strategy game of the Norse, finally done beautifully and fairly. A king and his defenders try to escape to one of the four corners. The attackers, twice as many, try to capture him first. You'll learn the rules in a minute – the games have the depth of chess or go. ONE GAME, DONE RIGHT • No ads. No subscription. No tracking. No energy, no timers. • A fair, tiered AI: easy, medium, hard. • Two players on one device (hot-seat) or against the AI – play as the king or the attackers. FIVE VARIANTS • Copenhagen 11×11 (modern tournament rules) • Brandubh 7×7 (quick game) • Tablut 9×9 and Tawlbwrdd 11×11 (edge escape) • Alea 13×13 (a big battlefield) BEAUTIFUL & ACCESSIBLE • The "Runestone" look: a carved wooden board, gliding pieces, sound and haptics. • Full dark mode. • An interactive tutorial plus a short rules reference. • Board themes and statistics. • Accessible: VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion. • 45 languages. FAIR MONETIZATION The base game is complete and fun. The one-time "Runetafl Complete" purchase adds depth – hard AI, all further variants, all themes and statistics. One purchase, forever. No subscription. Hnefatafl is over a thousand years old. Runetafl brings it to today. Terms of Use By using this app, you agree to Apple's standard End User License Agreement (EULA), available at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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What's New in Runetafl

1.0.3

November 3, 2026

Now in landscape — more accessible, fully translated, and truer to the rules. New: • Landscape on iPhone and iPad: the board and the controls sit side by side. On iPhone Duo, they sit on either side of the fold. • With a keyboard on iPad, ⌘Z undoes a move and ⌘N starts a new game. Improved: • Accessibility throughout: readable light-mode colors, serif text that scales with your Dynamic Type settings, and richer VoiceOver announcements for moves, captures and results. • VoiceOver announces every move, including the AI's. Rotors take you to your own pieces, the legal targets and the last move, and a blocked tap tells you why. • Large text: every screen scrolls at the largest accessibility text sizes, and buttons stack instead of cutting off their titles. • Reduce Motion is respected everywhere — the splash screen is shorter, too. • A tap near a legal target square now moves there — handy on big boards and small phones. • All 45 languages are now fully translated. • The hard AI answers much faster and completes its full search on every board. • Buying and restoring now tell you what happened: purchased, restored, nothing to restore, waiting for approval, canceled, or failed. • The privacy policy opens in the language you use the app in, loads nothing from other websites, and shows a retry button instead of a blank page if loading fails. • The purchase sheet re-fetches its price after an offline launch. Fixed: • Encirclement now follows the rules: the attackers win only when the king and every defender are inside the ring. • The king is no longer captured when he moves into a surrounded square himself. • Undo no longer freezes the game when you defend against the AI. • "Play again" after a game in which you defend against the AI no longer leaves the board stuck. • A finished game is no longer counted twice in your statistics after an undo and reopening the app. • Numbers in your statistics now use your language's digits and number format. • The tutorial names each piece's role, not only its color. • Better contrast in light mode for Settings headers, tutorial marks and green labels. • Some settings rows announced their state in English instead of your language. • Leaving the replay of a finished game no longer plays the win sound again. Enjoying Runetafl? A rating helps other players find the game!

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Runetafl Complete

Hard AI, all variants, themes and stats.

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