
Runetafl: Viking Chess
Hnefatafl · Tafl Board Game
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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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$3.99
Runetafl Complete
Hard AI, all variants, themes and stats.




