QUARTO.GG vs Ancient Games
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QUARTO.GG
A digital adaptation of a strategic board game where players aim to get four pieces in a row. Pieces are unique, with each having four distinct characteristics, and the goal is to select a piece for your opponent to place, adding a layer of strategic depth.
- Strategic board game
- Unique piece characteristics
- Opponent selects opponent's piece
- Masterable complexity
- Digital adaptation
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Quarto is a simple board game, but can be very hard to master.
Ancient Games
Explore and play a collection of ancient board games brought back to life with modern app design. Enjoy offline and online play, collect customizable game pieces, and tackle fun challenges. Save progress across all games with cloud saves.
- Play multiple ancient games in one app
- Offline and online multiplayer
- AI, friend, and random player matches
- Collectible game pieces and boards
- Challenges with rule variants
- Free cloud saves across games
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/!\ If you play more than one of my Ancient Games, I suggest you delete the individual apps and install this one. It will allow you to play them all and save disk storage. /!\ -Languages : English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Turkish. The past is full of fascinating games that haves been mostly forgotten. The Ancient Games collection aims to resurrect them as a meticulously crafted mix between what a player wants from an historical game and what he/she expects of a modern application. Features : -Play against the IA, friends and random players from around the world (Coming back soon) -Play Online & Offline. -Multiple collectibles : boards, game pieces, dice, nameplates, etc. -Challenges (Fun rule variants) -Free cloudsave across the collection : your progress in one game is available in all the others. -Much more features to come! Currently, the collection is comprised of four games : the Royal Game of Ur, Senet, XII Scripta and Puluc, but 40 games are in the works! You can see the roadmap here : https://trello.com/b/QYtOXwJi/ancient-games-roadmap Each game will be added to the Ancient Games app and will have its own individual app as well. The privacy policy has been updated in accordance to the latest data protection laws.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ancient Games at 78% against QUARTO.GG's 9%. Ancient Games also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (287 vs 4). QUARTO.GG's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Ancient Games sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. QUARTO.GG asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ancient Games holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ancient Games has 287 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of QUARTO.GG's written reviews are positive against 78% of Ancient Games's.
QUARTO.GG ships an update every 4 weeks, Ancient Games every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QUARTO.GG | Ancient Games |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.6 (287 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.1% of reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 287 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 212 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stefan Rasmussen | Sullivan Bousiniere |
Customer experience
QUARTO.GG
Ancient Games
User reviews
QUARTO.GG
From 4 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun simple game
- 👍 Good AI for learning
- 👍 Nice interface for free game
- 👍 Enjoyable game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes constantly
- 🐛 Unplayable
- 🐛 App doesn't work
- 🐛 Game crashes on start
- 🐛 Crashes when trying to set skill level
Ancient Games
From 287 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 High-quality ancient board games collection
- 🎨 Beautiful graphics and visual design
- 🎵 Appropriate relaxing music and atmosphere
- 👍 Easy to learn gameplay with depth
- 🎯 Multiple difficulty levels and game modes
Room to improve
- 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
- 💳 Subscription model for content access
- 🎲 Dice rolls appear non-random or rigged
- 🐛 Frequent freezing and crashing issues
- 🔊 Ads play with sound even when muted
Bugs and requests
QUARTO.GG
Reported bugs
73 issues- App crashes
- Game crashes
- Intro works, but nothing else
- Never made it past the main menu
- Crashes every time
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- App is not functional
- Started crashing a couple years ago
- Can't even start a game
- Not able to set skill level
- Only thing able to do is read directions
- Tells you to read instructions and crashes
- App crashes every time I try to open it
- Crashes every time without fail
- Game is unplayable due to crashing
- Unplayable on iPhone 8+
- Crashes after the intro every time
- Crashes, first time every time
- Game crashes when trying to start game
- Game crashes when opening user settings
- Says "THIS IS AN OLD RESEARCH PROJECT AND DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE"
- Still isn’t working
- Rien ne fonctionne
- Can’t use app at all
- Says to read intro again and again and again. Click OK, crash.
- Game crashes every time before starting a game
- Hasn’t been updated in 2yrs
- Crashes on start. No place to set level as required!
- This game doesn’t work
- Won’t let me play
- Deleted and downloaded several times to no avail
- Waste of time until it is fixed
- Crashes immediately
- Game won’t even open
- There’s a bug
- Game closes itself after reading the instructions
- Crashes every single time after the introduction
- Crashes on the “enter user skill level” screen in iOS11
- Could never get it open on iPad 7
- Crashed when trying to set user info
- Only part that works is the intro
- App crashes when clicking on user info
- App crashes when clicking on start game link at end of introduction
- Game is unplayable
- Need QA testing on all supported devices
- New form at the end of each game is annoying and 100% crashes
- Crashed all the time
- Need to set skill level to play. Crashes when you try to set it.
- Requires you to set a skill level before playing but throws you out before you can
- Has been out since 2016 and still not resolved the problem
- Crushes right away
- App not working at this time
- Crashes when you try to set the skill level
- Buggy
- Crashes constantly
- Crash Central
- Unable to start a game
- Crashed every time I try to start a game
- Crashed every time I try to go into the settings
- Doesn't work!!!
- Keeps crashing when I try to enter info!
- Can't even make it to the game!
- Remove this broken app!
- App crashes every time before you can even try playing the game
- App crashes the moment it is opened
- Crashes every time and on every device
- Asks to set skill level before beginning and then closes down when I try to do that
- Straight up doesn't work
- Game crashed each time I went to click "user info"
- Couldn't play once
- Crashed anytime I tried to open settings
- Crashed anytime I tried to go through the intro
- AI interface wins when it doesn't even have a quarto
- AI interface wins incorrectly
Requested features
11 requests- Update the app
- Fix the crashing issue
- Fix the game
- Repair the app
- Update coming
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- Fix the bug
- QA testing on all supported devices
- Remove non working apps from the store
- Different levels of play
- Play human opponents
- Turn the board for better view
Ancient Games
Reported bugs
11 issues- Game freezes after match completion
- Screen goes dark and becomes unresponsive post-game
- Ad removal purchase only lasts one game
- Paid ad removal still shows advertisements
- Game continues playing after player wins
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- Cannot make legal moves despite availability
- XII Scripta piece stacking rules not enforced correctly
- Purchased board content inaccessible due to subscription requirement
- Report button links to Mail app instead of App Store
- Text rendering issues making content hard to read
- Online play frequently unavailable or non-functional
Requested features
10 requests- Two-player local multiplayer mode
- Friends list and challenge system
- Leaderboards and ranking system
- Win/loss statistics and game history tracking
- Ability to play offline while waiting for online opponents
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- Permanent one-time purchase option instead of subscription
- More ancient games added to collection
- Harder difficulty levels beyond current maximum
- Better XP progression for unlocking boards
- Improved customer support contact options
In-app purchases
QUARTO.GG
No in-app purchases
Ancient Games
- AG+$3.991 Month
- Ancient Artifact$0.99
- Purchase Game Edition2 variants$1.99
- Dawn of Civilization DLC$2.99
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- Purchase Game Edition$2.99
- Skeleton Key$2.99
- Purchase Game Edition$3.99
- Purchase Game Edition$10.99
- Royal Pass$12.99
Questions
Is QUARTO.GG free?
Is Ancient Games free?
Which has better reviews, QUARTO.GG or Ancient Games?
Do QUARTO.GG or Ancient Games have ads?
Which is updated more often, QUARTO.GG or Ancient Games?
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