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About Owari
Owari is a variant of Mancala where players strategically attempt to capture stones from their opponent's row.
Easy to learn, hard to master
Owari is a very simple game at it's core: grab the stones in a pit, sow them around the board. Landing in a pit with 2 or 3 will result in some points. First to 25 points, wins. The game includes a tutorial to get you through the basics.
Practice makes perfect
Owari will come with 3 levels of AI difficulty that should offer up different levels of challenge to the player. The easy AI will greedily attempt to capture all that it can without much regard to defense, while the medium AI is a little more careful about leaving itself open. Finally, the hard AI will attempt to think one step ahead in order to defeat the more advanced players.
Two is better than one
Be it local or online, Owari will allow you to play with a friend (or stranger) with it's different multiplayer modes. If you're playing online, you can choose from hosting a private lobby for a friend, or waiting/joining a match in the public lobby.
Extra Info
Owari was heavily inspired by the DOS game "Wari: The Ancient Game of Africa", redone with a modern aesthetic. It is meant to be a very simple, play-it-during-your-break sort of game. Special thanks to Rachel Franco and Marius Ioan for their help in testing and debugging.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1]A simple turn-based strategy game for two[/h1] Game itself is alright but the execution leaves some to be desired. [h1]Rules[/h1] Owari is one of the myriad of [i]Mancala[/i] games. In this version the rules are as follows: - Players in turn choose a pit on their row and move the stones in that pit counter-clockwise leaving one stone into each pit. - If the last pit has 2 or 3 stones in it (i.e. it had 1 or 2 before), those stones are captured and scored. In case of capture, if there are several of applicable pits in row before the last pit, those too will be captured. - First to 25 points wins. - Also somehow clearing your own row grants lots of points - the number of stones left on the table, maybe? That's simple enough. Also, there's a quick and easy to follow tutorial. [h1]AI and multiplayer[/h1] There's three AIs to fight. I lost to the Easy one on the first try but afterwards won all three in a row, so I doubt they are particularly optimized for challenge. You may also play local and online multiplayer. Online multiplayer match is required for one of the achievements: fortunately there's a guide to do this on your own (launching another game client and making tha…6 found this helpful
Just like mancala, relaxing and free to play by yourself. Obs: pls add the fullscreen option.4 found this helpful
Not like any mancala I've ever played and the multiplayer - which was the whole reason I bought it - doesn't work at all3 found this helpful
Well, I can't play online with my friend, helloooo? help?2 found this helpful
Great minimal implementation of this ancient game. There is no proper fullscreen support, but that doesn't hurt the game much. The hard AI definitely knows what it is doing, it is beatable but indeed quite hard (at least for me, took quite a few attempts to finally beat it). The only nitpick I have (besides the missing fullscreen support) is that you have no option to go second against the AI. You are forced to make the starting move in every match against the AI.1 found this helpful
hey mr dev can you fix the multiplayer real fast
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