Ludo Supremo

Ludo Supremo takes the classic game of Ludo and adapts it to play on your computer. That means you never have to worry about digging out the board, keeping track of the pieces, and all the other hassles that come from a physical version of a board game. Ludo Supremo may look like a simple board game, but that doesn't mean that there isn't strategy bubbling beneath the surface. In fact, the history of Ludo Supremo traces back to one of the earliest board games still in existence. Despite not being rediscovered until the sixth century AD, the Indian game of pachisi dates back to the dawn of humanity. It's one of the grandfathers of board games, and it's inspired countless other spin-offs and variations. Ludo is one of these variations, building off of the core principles players will recognize from pachisi while streamlining and otherwise simplifying the principles where necessary. The result is a game that many players will recognize the basic rules of intuitively but that brings its own wrinkles to that storied formula.

When you first pick up Ludo Supremo, it may seem like an overly simplified take on a basic board game. A game board of simple circles and crosses constitutes the playing space, and each player has tokens they're trying to get to the end of the board. But the basic structure belies a level of strategy with surprising depth. No player can put their token on the board until they manage to roll a six. While this initially seems like it would give a natural and perhaps unassailable advantage to the first player to roll a six, the actual gameplay is more nuanced than that. You have to get six separate tokens to the end of the board, and the last square can only be reached when you roll the exact number you need. That means that luck remains a major determinant factor, but you also have to weigh the risk vs. reward of bringing new tokens onto the board. Since tokens can't occupy the same square, it becomes an issue of tactics, determining how you should move your pieces without creating traffic jams that will mitigate your opportunity to get your tokens to the end of the board. If you don't have any options to move, you forfeit your turn, a major disadvantage as there begin to be more tokens in play and the options available to you become more complicated. While Ludo is typically played with two to three players, Ludo Supreme increases that number by three, creating a potentially more chaotic experience that ups the difficulty and the options for strategy. The game board in Ludo Supremo may be simple, but it's portrayed in a beautiful and minimalist three dimensional style.